New England Hall of Fame
/Donald Harrision Organizer		1982
Donald "Don" Harrison, Westboro, Ma. (formerly of Hartford, Ct.) In his first Connecticut State Horseshoe Championship Tournament Don won 2nd place in Class B after a playoff for 1st place. That was in 1936. Don organized a horseshoe club in Litchfield where he lived. This club had the first clay courts in Connecticut. It was Don who pushed for these in a town park.The Litchfield Horseshoe Club entered the Connecticut State Horseshoe League in 1939 and won the championship that year. World War II terminated the Connecticut State League. Also, in 1939 he ran a Litchfield County Tournament. In 1948 Don helped reorganize the Connecticut State Horseshoe Association, becoming the Vice President. He held that office except for a few years when he was President, until he moved to Ma. When Don Lived in Hartford he entered a team from there in the Connecticut State Horseshoe in 1948. Don whenever he could, assisted in all Connecticut Tournaments. In 1966 he moved to Massachusetts and in 1971 through 1975 has done a good job of keeping the game progressing. Don, with the help of the rest of the Ma. State Assoc. officers ran the 1974 New England Championship at Sutton. In 1975 he was tournament director of the Ma. State Meet. Since that time he has helped with the statistics in some of the tournaments at Heritage.