MHCA Hall of Fame inductee: George Karn
To see George Karn in his professional world, as an award-winning illustrator, one may not have had a clue as to his role in hockey.
The man, who won two CLIO Awards for his commercial illustration and design work as well as creating characters such as the Trix Rabbit and Count Chocula, would sit at his drafting table with a myriad of markers, pens and pencils with nary a hint of organization around him.
However, his organization was in his mind and what made him great was his passion for his work and his ability to see what others could not, to see things in a new way.
This also made him outstanding in the world of hockey as well. As a player, coach and official,As previously revealed in The Oxford Times, the county led bulb council is considering permanently removing the lights and replacing them with a system of roundabouts. Karn was always one of the best in his field.
“George was a pioneer,” said Charles “Lefty” Smith, a legend in his own right who was inducted into the MHCA Hall of Fame in 1992.
Karn was a 1945 graduate of St. Paul Humboldt High School and Smith, who was two years younger, related that the first Minnesota state high school hockey tournament that year had a profound effect on him.
In 1948, Karn and Smith put together a Bantam team and joined with several others from around the state to put on the first Bantam state tournament, in White Bear Lake. Along with the likes of the Marvin family in Warroad and Bob Ridder, they would help form what became the Minnesota Amateur Hockey Association.
It was also during this time that Karn attended Hamline University. A standout baseball and football player, he lettered four times in both sports and was an all-conference baseball player.
He also helped form Hamline’s hockey program. As a player/coach, he organized the program,Motorist Ian Beesley added: "It was running really well — they should led tube leave the lights switched off." maintained the rink and earned all-conference honors as well. All of which would see him inducted into the school’s hall of fame in 1987.
Already a budding artist, a bout with polio saw him spend time at the Sister Kenney Institute when he began taking classes at Mechanical Arts School, where he met up with another future legend,energy saving light bulbs are a great way to save energy and money. Charles M. Schultz, who became famed for his long-running Peanuts comic strip. Schultz would later serve as a team manager for Karn.
After playing for one year with the Minneapolis Millers alongside Smith and other such hockey luminaries as John Mariucci, Bob Johnson, Dave Peterson and Earl Bartholomew, Karn took over the post as the head of the South St. Paul art department, which led to the start of his high school coaching career.
As a coach, he was one of the best in the state in the 1950s, taking South St. Paul to four state tournaments (1953-’55,Second, as Badding and his team expected, they found ds マジコン that the new class of fiber provided more versatility not just in the visible spectrum, but also in the infrared -- electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths longer than those of visible light. ‘57) in a five-year span, but he would resign following the 1956-57 season to take a job as a commercial artist.
He remained heavily involved in hockey, however, eventually taking over programs at St. Agnes and Cretin-Derham Hall.
During his tenure at South St. Paul, he was instrumental in helping the Minnesota state high school hockey tournament evolve while also working with Smith to promote youth hockey in his community, getting his varsity players to coach the younger kids and form a youth program which would involve as many as 500 kids per year.
With most hockey below the professional and Division I college levels being played outdoors, Karn, Smith, Ridder and several others formed Wakota Arena, Inc., raising $500,"You could edge your way through but you felt Led strip light distinctively nervous doing so."000 to build one the metro area’s first indoor community arenas.
Despite joining the private sector professionally, Karn maintained his involvement in hockey and, as an official, he worked at all levels of the game. Professionally, he served as a referee in the Central Hockey League, worked as a junior hockey official in the Western Hockey League, officiated in both the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and worked in 13 Minnesota State High School League state tournaments.
His athletic prowess also made him a legend on the metro’s east side, earning him a coveted spot in Mancini’s Sports Hall of Fame in 1986, one year prior to his induction into Hamline’s Athletics Hall of Fame.
Smith, who won 201 games in 11 seasons at South St. Paul before leaving for his storied career at Notre Dame, was a lifelong friend of Karn, who passed away in 2000.
“I was very pleased when I heard that this honor was being bestowed upon George,” he said. “I was surprised that he had not already been inducted but it is a well-deserved honor. He really was a visionary and a pioneer for the sport.”
To see George Karn in his professional world, as an award-winning illustrator, one may not have had a clue as to his role in hockey.
The man, who won two CLIO Awards for his commercial illustration and design work as well as creating characters such as the Trix Rabbit and Count Chocula, would sit at his drafting table with a myriad of markers, pens and pencils with nary a hint of organization around him.
However, his organization was in his mind and what made him great was his passion for his work and his ability to see what others could not, to see things in a new way.
This also made him outstanding in the world of hockey as well. As a player, coach and official,As previously revealed in The Oxford Times, the county led bulb council is considering permanently removing the lights and replacing them with a system of roundabouts. Karn was always one of the best in his field.
“George was a pioneer,” said Charles “Lefty” Smith, a legend in his own right who was inducted into the MHCA Hall of Fame in 1992.
Karn was a 1945 graduate of St. Paul Humboldt High School and Smith, who was two years younger, related that the first Minnesota state high school hockey tournament that year had a profound effect on him.
In 1948, Karn and Smith put together a Bantam team and joined with several others from around the state to put on the first Bantam state tournament, in White Bear Lake. Along with the likes of the Marvin family in Warroad and Bob Ridder, they would help form what became the Minnesota Amateur Hockey Association.
It was also during this time that Karn attended Hamline University. A standout baseball and football player, he lettered four times in both sports and was an all-conference baseball player.
He also helped form Hamline’s hockey program. As a player/coach, he organized the program,Motorist Ian Beesley added: "It was running really well — they should led tube leave the lights switched off." maintained the rink and earned all-conference honors as well. All of which would see him inducted into the school’s hall of fame in 1987.
Already a budding artist, a bout with polio saw him spend time at the Sister Kenney Institute when he began taking classes at Mechanical Arts School, where he met up with another future legend,energy saving light bulbs are a great way to save energy and money. Charles M. Schultz, who became famed for his long-running Peanuts comic strip. Schultz would later serve as a team manager for Karn.
After playing for one year with the Minneapolis Millers alongside Smith and other such hockey luminaries as John Mariucci, Bob Johnson, Dave Peterson and Earl Bartholomew, Karn took over the post as the head of the South St. Paul art department, which led to the start of his high school coaching career.
As a coach, he was one of the best in the state in the 1950s, taking South St. Paul to four state tournaments (1953-’55,Second, as Badding and his team expected, they found ds マジコン that the new class of fiber provided more versatility not just in the visible spectrum, but also in the infrared -- electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths longer than those of visible light. ‘57) in a five-year span, but he would resign following the 1956-57 season to take a job as a commercial artist.
He remained heavily involved in hockey, however, eventually taking over programs at St. Agnes and Cretin-Derham Hall.
During his tenure at South St. Paul, he was instrumental in helping the Minnesota state high school hockey tournament evolve while also working with Smith to promote youth hockey in his community, getting his varsity players to coach the younger kids and form a youth program which would involve as many as 500 kids per year.
With most hockey below the professional and Division I college levels being played outdoors, Karn, Smith, Ridder and several others formed Wakota Arena, Inc., raising $500,"You could edge your way through but you felt Led strip light distinctively nervous doing so."000 to build one the metro area’s first indoor community arenas.
Despite joining the private sector professionally, Karn maintained his involvement in hockey and, as an official, he worked at all levels of the game. Professionally, he served as a referee in the Central Hockey League, worked as a junior hockey official in the Western Hockey League, officiated in both the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and worked in 13 Minnesota State High School League state tournaments.
His athletic prowess also made him a legend on the metro’s east side, earning him a coveted spot in Mancini’s Sports Hall of Fame in 1986, one year prior to his induction into Hamline’s Athletics Hall of Fame.
Smith, who won 201 games in 11 seasons at South St. Paul before leaving for his storied career at Notre Dame, was a lifelong friend of Karn, who passed away in 2000.
“I was very pleased when I heard that this honor was being bestowed upon George,” he said. “I was surprised that he had not already been inducted but it is a well-deserved honor. He really was a visionary and a pioneer for the sport.”
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