Hall of Fame Update By Brenda Beales A t the Academy banquet held the evening of October 16, honoree Thomas Hines will join the distinguished ranks of his fellow park and recreation pioneers in the Robert W. Crawford Hall of Fame. Hines began his career in parks and recreation as a playground director for Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and then moved into the academic world. He developed one of the first college curricula in parks and recreation management at North Carolina State University, also one of the first colleges or universities to obtain na- tional accreditation, where he served as professor and department head. He guided his faculty over his 31year tenure at North Carolina State University to create a dynamic and attractive degree program that prepared highly accomplished park and recreation professionals (many of whom have been or continue to be leaders in the profession and NRPA). There, he developed Rho Phi Alpha, the first honorary fraternity for students in parks and recreation. He also developed the Revenue Sources Management School, which proved Thomas Hines to be the model for NRPA's professional education schools. Hines was active in NRPA and in many other park and recreation organizations. The author of numerous books on the field and winner of a plethora of award, Hines' reach and influence is difficult to express and impossible to measure. Brenda Beales is NRPA's Awards and Accreditation Manager (bbeales@nrpa.org). We know sport surfacing. We're the original. Our state-of-the-art tate-o -the-a t tiles are ® ea bulletproof bulletproof durability. urabil y. Our engineered for professional performance with near ellent choice choice for any ny sport sport tile is portable and very low maintenance. An excellent able and and easy ea y to install. install. surface. And that's not all --- we make them affordable www.mateflex.com 800.926.3539 39 W W W. N R PA . O R G | S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 4 | Parks & Recreation 61