Holyoke, Massachusetts Honor Award for contributions of teams or organizations to volleyball, the William G. Morgan Award for outstanding support or promotion of the sport, and Mintonette Medallion of Merit Award in recognition of significant individual achievement, including coaches, referees, scorekeepers and other notable contributors to the sport. On February 9, 1895, William G. Morgan invented volleyball, originally known as "mintonette" for its similarity to badminton, at the Holyoke YMCA. Though the original YMCA building in which the sport was first played was lost to fire in 1943, the Greater Holyoke YMCA remains an active chapter. Today the Volleyball Hall of Fame
P. G. Morgan P. G. Morgan Peter Gwynne Morgan is a television and film writer/producer living in Los Angeles, California. A winner of the 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming for his work on "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," he is married to American documentary director Marina Zenovich. Morgan was born in Bangor, North Wales. He was educated at Henleaze School, Bristol and Penglais School, Aberystwyth, where he was a near contemporary of author Malcolm Pryce. After school, Morgan won a scholarship to read Modern History at Worcester College, Oxford. While at Oxford, Morgan was a regular contributor to "Isis"