Longtime Bangor High coach Frederick “Red” Barry, former Waterville and Colby athlete Ted Shiro, University of Maine standout runner Don Smith, candlepin bowler Eleanor Patten Webber and former Colby College coach Lee Williams have been named to the Maine Sports Hall of Fame for 1991.

The five, along with two posthumous selections, Olympic ski coach Charles “Al” Merrill and University of Maine and major league baseball player Otis Lawry, will be inducted in ceremonies slated for June 2, 1991, at the Bangor Civic Center.

Barry, 67, is perhaps best known as coach of Bangor state championship basketball teams in 1955 and 1959. Barry, who coached at Bangor from 1947-1969, also had Eastern Maine title teams in ’48, ’51, ’56, and ’62.

Barry, a native of Northampton, Mass., and a Bates College graduate, was a baseball, basketball and football standout. He also coached baseball at BHS and umpired for many years in the area.

He is the only Maine man to serve on the National Federation Rules Committee for baseball. –

Smith, 72, is from Rowena, New Brunswick, but went to school in Easton prior to attending the University of Maine.

He was a four-year varsity basketball player as well as a cross country standout. Smith won the prestigious IC4A title in the freshman division and then competed three more years as a varsity runner. He also won several state and New England crowns, as well as holding many track and daler records at UM.

Smith later went into coaching and had a successful career as basketball coach and athletic director at Easton and Presque Isle. –

Shiro, 62, was a key member of Waterville’s storied 1944 New England championship team, and at age 15 was named All-New England. He was All-Maine in basketball, All-State in football as a senior, and was a league batting champ in baseball.

At Colby, Shiro was a three-letter man, making All-State three times and All-New England once in basketball.

Shiro is the first basketball player in Maine to score 500 points in a season and 1,000 in a career. –

Williams, now retired as executive director of the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., was a colorful and successful figure on the college basketball scene in Maine spanning three decades.

Educated at Oswego, N.Y., and Cortland (N.Y) State College, Williams, 72, was a four-year star in basketball and baseball at both schools.

He joined the Colby staff after World War II and coached basketball from 1946-65. In that span, Colby won 10 State Series hoop crowns while compiling a 252-212 record.

Williams was state Coach of the Year in 1954 and assistant coach of the United States Pan Am Games basketball squad in 1963. –

Webber, 79, is an Ellsworth native who was in her 50s when she became the top woman candlepin bowler in the state, an honor she claimed on several occasions.

Webber, who competed most of her career as Eleanor Patten, was the top singles bowler in Maine in 1962, ’63, ’65, ’66, and was world champion in 1972. She was named Bowler of the Year for all of candlepin bowling in ’73 and was inducted into the World Candlepin Hall of Fame in 1978. –

Merrill, a native of Andover, Maine, was educated at Hebron Academy and the University of New Hampshire. At UNH, Merrill was a star skier and three-year team captain.

In 1948, he was an alternate on the U.S. Olympic Team in nordic combined. He was also a member of the 1950 U.S. Nordic Team in jumping and cross country.

Merrill became coach of the U.S. National Team in 1954. He then went on to coach in the Olympic Games of ’56 and ’64, becoming head Olympic ski coach in 1964 for the Grenoble Games.

Merrill also coached the Dartmouth ski team from 1957 into the 1980s. –

Lawry, from Fairfield, graduated from Lawrence High in 1912 and from the University of Maine in 1916. He captained the Bears as senior and went directly to the major leagues. In ’16 and ’17, “Rabbit” Lawry played 41 and 30 games, respectively, at second base and in the outfield for the Philadelphia Athletics of Connie Mack.

Lawry died in 1965 at the age of 71.

The Hall of fame will have 104 inductees when this group is enshrined. The Hall also presents high school and college awards and scholarships annually as well as President’s Awards to active athletes not yet eligible fo H of F membership.

A permanent Hall of Fame room has just been constructed at 295 Fore Street, Portland, and will be officially dedicated sometime in January 1991.

A display case for the Hall is located at The Legends restaurant and sports bar in bangor, and plans are under way for a showcase to be located someshere in Aroostook COunty.