EASTON, Pa. – Dan Bengele '98, Steve Feldman '76, Bill Hogarty '55 and Kim Stone '00 have been selected for enshrinement into the Maroon Club Hall of Fame. The 2019-20 class will be inducted at the Hall of Fame dinner on Nov. 22, 2019 along with the 1948 football team.
 
For tickets to the event, which is set to begin at 7 p.m. in Kirby Sports Center, please contact Josh Azer, Director of Athletic Development and Maroon Club Executive Director, via email at azerj@lafayette.edu or by phone at (610) 330-3116. Adult tickets are $75 and $20 for children under 12.
 
Bengele, a linebacker from 1994-97, was named to the Associated Press All-America Second Team and The Sports Network All-America Third Team in his senior campaign of 1997. He collected All-America honors from the Football Gazette in 1996 and 1997 and was an ECAC All-Star First-Team selection in 1997 when he served as the team captain.
 
Named the Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year in 1997, he led the conference in tackles with 145, a mark that currently places him fourth in Lafayette single-season history. He also added eight sacks, ranking him ninth in Lafayette single-season history. Bengele garnered All-Patriot League First-Team honors in 1996 and 1997 while securing second-team laurels as a sophomore in 1995. He finished his career with 408 tackles, ranking fourth in Patriot League history
 
Bengele won the Charles L. Albert '08 Award in 1998, given annually to the senior student-athlete judged to be the most outstanding athlete. He also helped guide the 1994 team to a Patriot League title with a 5-0 Patriot League mark following a 0-6 start to the season.
 
Bengele is currently a DPS Sales Specialist for Dell | EMC.
 
Feldman was an NCAA finalist, finishing eighth in the nation, in the hammer throw in his senior track and field season of 1976. He held the Lafayette school record in the hammer from 1976-2018 (the third longest-held track and field record at Lafayette – 42 years). He won the hammer throw event at the 1976 Penn Relays and claimed first in the college division in 1975.
 
He also qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in the weight throw in 1975. Feldman placed third-in the hammer at the IC4A Outdoor Championships in 1976 and fourth in 1975 when he broke the Lafayette school record four times in four throws. Feldman also finished third in the 35-lb weight throw at the 1974 and 1976 IC4A Indoor Championship meets. He currently holds the 35-pound weight throw school record.
 
Feldman served as a team captain in 1976 and earned the Class of 1913 Trophy, presented to the Lafayette senior who has attained the greatest distinction as an athlete and a scholar.
 
Upon graduation, Feldman earned his master's degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University. He joined Air Products and Chemicals, Inc in 1978, working a variety of roles in support of industrial and electronic gases operations and plant engineering, gases plant commissioning, health and safety and process engineering in a career spanning nearly 40 years.  Feldman retired from Air Products in 2018 as Chief Engineer-Gases Operations.
 
 
Hogarty was an ABCA All-America Third-Team honoree in his senior season of 1955, also collecting All-NCAA District II First-Team laurels. He helped guide the Leopards to a third-place finish in the 1953 College World Series when Lafayette rang up a 20-6-2 mark and he hit for a season-long .355 average. The outfielder was a member of two College World Series teams (1953 and 1954) and three teams which advanced to the NCAA Regionals (1953, 1954, 1955). He helped guide Lafayette to three straight Middle-Atlantic Conference titles (1953-55). In his senior season of 1955, he hit for a .393 clip with seven home runs and 18 stolen bases in 19 attempts.
 
The powerful slugger signed with the Washington Senators after graduation and played two seasons in the Senators Farm system. Hogarty went on to work in construction and development in Hawaii, working primarily on large hotel projects. A veteran of the United States Army, he passed away in 2004.
 
Stone was a two-sport athlete, playing field hockey and lacrosse. She earned NFHCA All-America Third-Team honors in her senior hockey campaign of 1999 when the team was 19-2 overall and 7-0 in Patriot League play. She also garnered NFHCA Mideast Region First-Team laurels in 1999 and Second-Team honors in 1998. The midfielder was a three-time All-Patriot League selection (first team in 1998 and 1999 and second team in 1997). The 1999 team captain was the conference pick as the Patriot League Tournament MVP, guiding the team to a league title and an NCAA Tournament berth.
 
Stone was named to the Patriot League All-Decade Field Hockey team in 2000, capping a career in which she claimed regular-season Patriot League crowns in 1996 and 1999.
 
In lacrosse, Stone was a member of three Patriot League championship teams, winning titles in 1997, 1998 and 2000 while racking up a four-year Patriot League record of 15-2. She secured All-Patriot League Second-Team honors in 1999 on a 10-6 squad.
 
Like Bengele, Stone was the Charles L. Albert '08 Award winner, while also being named the Maroon Club Scholar-Athlete of the Year. After graduation, Stone served as an assistant coach on the field hockey team. She earned her master's degree in Interior Architecture and Design from Drexel in 2008 and now owns a Design Build construction company with her husband, Homestead Design Build, Inc..
 
The 1948 team finished the season with a 7-2 record with wins over Fordham, Bucknell, George Washington, Washington and Jefferson, Muhlenberg, Ohio Wesleyan and Lehigh and losses only to No. 6 Army and Rutgers. The team averaged 260.2 rushing yards per game, among the leaders in the East, led by Maroon Club Hall of Fame inductee Frank Downing '51 who was the quarterback.
 
More notably, the team was invited to the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas. The College rejected the invitation, however, after the Sun Bowl committee's decision to exclude David Showell '51 from the game because of his race, and the segregation laws in Texas. Showell, who played on offense and defense, later served his country in World War II with the Tuskegee Airmen. The Greatest Game Never Played (as it was later referred to in a song) helped raise awareness of exclusion of African American players in college football bowl games based on their race.