The Hall of Fame Board of Directors – Biographies
John Shotton – President
John, a Pinckneyville resident for the past 40 years, is the retired Vice President of Operations for Consolidated Coal Company. He played basketball at Marion High School and then attended the University of Illinois to earn his degree.
John fondly recalls cheering for legendary southern Illinois basketball players such as Mannie Jackson and Governor Vaughn during his time at the University of Illinois.
John currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Pinckneyville Community Hospital while he continues to be an avid fan of basketball on all levels.
Dick Corn – Executive Director
Coach Corn retired in 2007 after 32 years as Pinckneyville High School’s basketball coach, during which time his team won more than 700 games.
He led two teams to State Championships (1994 and 2001), earned a second-place trophy (1988) and a fourth-place trophy (2006) in his four trips to the State Tournament finals. Coach Corn’s 23 Regional Championships ranks first in state history among all Class A coaches.
He is a two-time winner of the State Coach of the Year award and earned National Basketball Coach of the Year in 2003. The Pinckneyville Chamber of Commerce also named him its Citizen of the Year.
Coach Corn is a member of the Monmouth College Sports Hall of Fame.
Rich Herrin – Vice President
Coach Herrin recently retired as the varsity head coach at Marion High School, capping a highly successful career in which his teams won 677 games in his years at Okawville, Benton and Marion high schools.
Coach Herrin also coached the Southern Illinois University Salukis from 1985 to 1998, compiling a record of 225-174. His teams won 20 games in six of his 13 seasons, appeared in four consecutive NIT Tournaments and three consecutive NCAA Tournaments.
Senator Dave Luechtefeld
State Sen. Luechtefeld currently represents the 58th District of the State of Illinois. First elected in 1995, he has been the Assistant Minority Leader since 2003.
Before entering politics, Sen. Luechtefeld was the basketball and baseball coach and athletic director at Okawville High School for 38 years. He won 738 games as head basketball coach of the Rockets.
He is a member of the Illinois Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame; the Illinois Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame; the Illinois Basketball Players Hall of Fame; and a recipient of the St. Louis University Hall of Fame Distinguished Alumni Award.
Joe Wiley
Joe was one of the most prolific scorers in state history as a stand-out at Belleville High School in the 1960s when he earned All-State and All-American honors. He then attended St. Louis University where he proved to be one of the top scorers and rebounders in school history before his induction into the university’s Hall of Fame.
Currently, Joe is president of Quest Management Consultants, a human resources consultancy he founded in 2003. Among his many civic activities, Joe is on the Board of Directors of United Way St. Louis. He was recognized as one of the most influential St. Louisans in 2009 by the St. Louis Business Journal.
Joe remains connected to the St. Louis Billikens by occasionally serving as an analyst on televised games.
Bogie Redmon
Bogie was a three-sport star at Collinsville High School, playing basketball for legendary coach Virgil Fletcher. He was an All-State end in football and a basketball All-American at Collinsville while also excelling at the discus throw.
Bogie was the leader of the undefeated 1961 Collinsville basketball team that is considered one of the greatest high school teams in state history. He earned a basketball scholarship at the University of Illinois where he played three seasons and was part of a Big 10 Championship team in 1963. He also threw the discus at Illinois, winning the Big 10 Championship in 1965.
After college, Bogie was offered a contract by the NBA’s Baltimore Bullets, but he opted to join his father in the insurance business in Collinsville. He retired after 42 years. Bogie is a member of the Collinsville Chamber of Commerce and a past-president of the Collinsville Lions Club.
Kirk Reuter
Kirk is a former baseball and basketball player at Nashville High School who fashioned a 13-year career in Major League Baseball.
Drafted by the Montreal Expos out of Murray State University in 1991, Kirk made his major league debut in 1993 with the Expos, going 8-0 in 14 games. After a trade to the San Francisco Giants in 1996, he became the organization’s winningest left-handed pitcher, collecting 105 of his 130 career victories in a Giants uniform. Kirk pitched in two games during the 2002 World Series, including a Game 4 start that he won.
Reuter, who retired from baseball in 2006, remains an avid basketball fan.
Craig Williams
Craig has been a small-business entrepreneur since he was 17. He currently serves as the CEO of Pinckneyville-based CommunityLink, a nationwide communications and community fund-raising firm he founded in 1996.
Craig recently launched two social media ventures called “iAspire” and “Small Town, Big Ideas” to encourage young rural and exurban residents to become more active in their communities.
In high school, Craig was the first wrestler from Pinckneyville High School to qualify for the State Wrestling Finals. He serves on the Rend Lake College Advisory Council and the PCHS Education Foundation Board.
