THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, January 5, 1996 TAG: 9601030173
SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS PAGE: 15 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Sports
SOURCE: BY JAMI FRANKENBERRY
STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Short : 44 lines
Howard Mast, a former coach at Wilson High School, has been inducted in the Mid-Atlantic Tennis Foundation's Hall of Fame in Vienna, Va.
Mast coached track and was an assistant football coach at Wilson in the late 1940s.
Mast, an employee of Norfolk State University for 17 years, is currently a capital outlay engineer at the school and a resident of Suffolk. Mast, 78, called the award ``my most crowning achievement.''
Mast was inducted in the tennis hall of fame along with Donald Dell, a former U.S. Davis Cup player and co-founder of the Association of Tennis Professionals, and Unni MacDonald, former executive director of the Mid-Atlantic Tennis Association. He joins 29 others in the seven-year-old hall of fame.
A former director of recreation in Suffolk, Mast organized the Suffolk Tennis Association in 1957. He served as president of the Virginia Tennis Association in 1961.
The 1938 graduate of Virginia Tech has been instrumental in the start of numerous tennis associations and has taught at countless clinics.
Mast said although the hall of fame induction would cap a great career, he plans on teaching clinics for at least six more years.
``My interest level has gotten bigger as I've moved along,'' he said. ``People still bring their kids to me and that's rewarding. I've got arthritis everywhere you look, but I just keep on going. I'm going to keep doing it.'' ILLUSTRATION: File staff photo by MICHAEL KESTNER
Howard Mast, who coached track and was an assistant football coach
at Wilson High School in the late 1940s, has been inducted in the
Mid-Atlantic Tennis Foundation's Hall of Fame.
by CNB