 | Don Spencer Inducted into ACHA Hall of Fame Don Spencer is The Godfather of Hockey in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Don played goalie for NCAA Hamilton College, he was a campus minister for West Virginia University before moving on to another career in public service.
In 1978, Don Spencer decided that Morgantown needed an Ice Rink. In typical Don fashion, he got community leaders, elected officials, and interested citizens involved in visiting a number of rinks in the Pittsburgh area to promote the project. He organized a committee to promote an excess property tax levy tax on to meet the local matching money that would be required to access federal funds for the project. Don worked for the passage of the levy day and night, and when the referendum was held, an amazing 76 percent of the voters approved the added tax...
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