Ernst “Ernie” F. Goman
Inducted In
1987
Ernie Goman was born in Renfrew County and graduated from Waterloo College with an honours BA in French and German.
Goman coached and managed in the Waterloo Baseball Association and in juvenile and midget hockey leagues. He became the first president of the K-W Boys’ Hockey Association. He ran junior, intermediate and Waterloo Tigers baseball teams and was manager of the Kitchener Panther Senior Baseball Club.
He was general manager of the K-W Dutchmen Hockey Club for seven years and the 1956 and 1960 Canadian Olympic hockey teams. He was general chairman of the 1975 national mixed curling championships of Canada.
Goman served as past president of the Waterloo Baseball Association, the K-W Granite Club, the K-W Athletic Association, the Waterloo Lions’ Club and the Waterloo County Life Underwriters. In 1956 he received a gold medal from the International Hockey Association and later a gold stick award from the Ontario Hockey Association.
He was associated with the Equitable Life Insurance Co. for 50 year