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Position no longer part-time jobCAHA votes to have full-time presidentLONDON, Ont. (CP)-The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association will soca have its first full-time president.The CAHA decided unanimously at its annual meeting Tuesday that the position of president is no longer a part-time position to be handled oa a voluntary basis.The restructuring of the CAHA now leaves the president responsible to the board of directors with a chairman in charge. The duties of the executive director remain unchanged.Gord Renwick of Cambridge, Ont., serving his final term as president, said a country-wide search for the new president would begin immediately. Renwick said neither he nor vice-president Frank McKinnon would apply for-the position. McKinnon would have been Renwick's successor under the old format.Renwick. 44, wbb has beer, on the CAHA executive for 10 years, received the CAHAmeritorious award at a dinner Tuesday night.The CAHA executive of the year award also went to an Ontario hockey man. Clarence (Tubby) Schmali of Walker-ton. former commissioner of Ihe Ontario Major Junior Hockey League and a nominee for CAHA vice-chairman, was honored at the dinner.Former president Jack De vine and Gordon Juckes. former executive director, were given life-time memberships, while representatives from each of the five national championship teams were also honored.Bill Abercrombie of Petroila Squires was given a watch as Ihe most valuable player in the Allan Cup senior A final series against Stein-bach, Man., Huskies.Others given awards were Bart Hunter of Portland Winter Hawks (Memorial Cup-Major Junior A); Dunston Carroll of Sberwocd-Parkdale, M.S., Metros(Centennial Cup-Tier 2 junior A); Rem! Levesque of Moncton, N.B., Hawks (Hardy Cup-Intermediate A); andMario Dore of St. Foy, Que, (Air Canada Cup-midget).named minor player of the year.Phillips, who resigned his post.Edmonton's Randy Bucyk, nephew of Johnny Bucyk, former National Hockey League star with Boston Bruins, wasfc other business Tuesday:—Jim Kinkley of Toronto, -former president of (be Ontario Minor Hockey Association, was appointed to the CAHA executive as a director for minor hockey. Kinkley replaces Cliffe—The executive rejected a resolution that would have allowed juvenile hockey to have three years of eligibility instead of the present two.—Rule change amendments for the 197940 and 1980-61 seasons as approved at the semiannual meeting were given “rubber-stamp approval.—Any championship team wishing to retain Ihe trophy until June 15 must post a bond or certified’ cheque for $2,000 to ensure the return of the trophy to the Hockey Hall of Fame.The annual meeting continues until Friday.Quebec threatens to leave CAHALONDON. Ont. -(CP) -Quebec will cease to be an active member of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association if it is not allowed veto power, Arthur Lessard,' executive director of the Quebec Ice Hockey Federation (QI1F) told delegates attending the CAHA's annual meeting.“We are not satisfied wilh the CAHA’ he said and added that his organisation insists it approves decisions that affectthem before they are ratified by the CAHA.Lessard, reading from a seven-page statement, said the CAHA was prejudiced wilh regard to the Quebec federation and had ignored its recommendations. In Its list of complaints, the QliF said the CAHA was under the influence of the Ontario Hockey Association and that French documents were often impossible to obtain fromthe association. .The Q1IF also said nothing was being done to deal with the fact that Canada has lost ground at the international level.“We have the imprtssion that amateur hockey * is proceeding as the weather goes — without real pian-ning, he said.“We cannot accept the lack of leadership of the national organization, which obviously represents an obstacle lo thepolicies and realizations of theQUFS’Lessard said his federation will re-evaluate the situation at the end of the 197940 season and reconsider its participation in the CAHA.Gordon Renwick, president of the CAHA, said he was surprised when Lessard made the presentation In the plenary session.Renwick said that, while the Quebec group criticized the CAHA’s terhniral dpvplr»rv
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Lethbridge Herald
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Wed, May 23, 1979
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