Charles Kunkle Jr.

Charles Kunkle Jr.

: Charles Kunkle Jr., left, Evelyn Eperjessy, middle and Fred Brand Jr. during the 1965 hall of fame banquet.

: The NHL’s Clarence Campbell, left, Charles Kunkle and Ken McNally, right, meet in April 1952.

: NHL President Clarence Campbell, left, Eastern Hockey League President Tom Lockhart, middle, and Charles Kunkle Jr., right.

: Charles Kunkle, Arnold Palmer and Bud Griffith chat during the 1948 Sunnehanna Invitational in a photo that appeared in the Sunnehanna Amateur Tournament for Champions 2010 program.

Dominated the area golf scene in the 1940s and 1950s.
Won the Sunnehanna Country Club championship 10 times and the Greater Johnstown championship seven times.
Participated in the U.S. Amateur Championship Tournament five consecutive years.
Played as an amateur in the 1956 Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga.
Participated in basketball, football, tennis and track at Westmont High School.
Played varsity basketball at Duke University, lettering with the Blue Devils from 1934 through 1936.
Served as Duke’s basketball team captain in 1936.
Instrumental in establishing the Sunnehanna Amateur Tournament for Champions.
Chairman of the Cambria County War Memorial Arena Corp. from 1948 to 1951.
Instrumental in construction of War Memorial Arena.
President of the Johnstown Jets hockey team from 1949 to 1952.
Member of United States Olympic Hockey Committee in 1964 and 1968.
Inducted into the Western Pennsylvania Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame Class of 1972.