Pat Doherty
Inducted In
1990
Pat Doherty was born in Campbellford in 1928 and came to Kitchener in 1955. He served as coach, manager and president of the Kitchener Minor Hockey Association, was founding president of the Hub All-Star League (1972), manager of the Kitchener Ranger B’s for two years and head instructor of the Don Hayes’ Hockey School.
Doherty wrote a manual for hockey coaches and instructors and an organizational manual (1973) which are both used across Canada. He became chairman of the OHA board in 1982 and was first president of the Hockey Development Centre for Ontario in 1984.
A former teacher at Sacred Heart Elementary School and St. Jerome’s High School, he joined the Waterloo County Separate School Board in 1968, serving as a consultant and safety officer until his retirement in 1989.
His thirty-five years’ involvement with minor hockey was recognized with the Special Achievement Award by the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Recreation in 1985.