Shelby High School Hall of Distinction Inductees
2024
- David Innis ’59 – veteran
- Gary Johnson ’71 – dentist, community involvement
- Kevin Fitzpatrick ’73 – national government service
- Sally Biglin ’95 – education, community service
- Kathryn “Katie” Shaw Oriti ’02 – NASA engineer
- Lisa Baker – music teacher, band director
- Tim Tarvin ’77 – teacher, coach, superintendent
2023
- Bruce Armstrong ’71 – school system superintendent
- Garland Gates ’74 – city mayor, teacher
- Mike Tarvin ’74 – Army chaplain
- Chuck Ridenour ’80 – journalist
- Karl Milliron ’83 – business executive
- Gary Cole – science teacher
2022
- Beverly Jewell White ’50 – teacher, community leader
- Dan Dowds ’72 – veteran, firefighter, vocational instructor
- Michael Dick ’74 – emergency medical director
- Carrie Rietschlin Kemerer ’96– fundraising executive, community leader
- Mike Medley ’97 – attorney, entrepreneur, inventor
- Fred Cooke ’68 – agriculture teacher
2021
- Mildred Haverfield Roberts ’38 – SHS Administrator
- Bill Damron ’58 – banking and financial services executive
- Bob Mackey ’68 – banking executive, community involvement
- Curt Fackler ’74 – veteran, financial services business owner, community leader
- Christina Yetzer Drain ’75 – veteran, community and business leader, journalist
- Sherry Burrer ’89 – veterinarian, public health official
- Terry Zuercher – History teacher and coach of track and cross country
2020
- Forrest Kirkpatrick ’23 – corporate executive, college professor
- Mike Erchenbrecher ’70 – science teacher
- Jane Sites Mackey ’70 – non-profit executive, business owner
- Dave Downs ’70 – teacher, boys track coach
- Natalie Britt Lantz ’93 – business owner, girls basketball coach
- Lillian Bowman – History teacher
2019
- John Seltzer 1893 – entrepreneur, philanthropist
- Dave Gump ’51 – business executive
- Michele Black Abrams ’69 – teacher, business leader, volunteerism
- Tyler Stepsis ’94 – physician, medical center director
- Faith Robertson ’09 – physician, neuro surgeon
- Joan Arrington – English teacher
2018
- Jim Barkdull ’51 – petroleum geologist, business consultant
- Paul Mellick ’56 – veterinarian
- Dean Johnston ’65 – college president
- Dan Leffel ’67 – business executive, professional photographer
- Sandra Weaver Harewood ’69 – physician
- Dennis Zeiters ’71 – teacher, coach
- Bruce Archdeacon – chemistry, physics teacher
2017
- Frank Lux ’62 – veterinarian
- Chris Straw ’63 – child psychologist
- Dick Fisher ’64 – engineering
- Joycelyn Strauch Benedict ’67 – philanthropist
- Mike Potter ’69 – tool and die, coaching, community involvement
- Steve Eyler ’70 – optometrist
- Maria Ingram Barton ’82 – attorney, judge
- Nelson Hardesty – business teacher, coach
- Wayne Potts – Spanish, French, English teacher
2016
- Paul Milliron ’47 – natural gas industry and founder of Girls Softball Association
- Larry Reed ’63 – aerospace engineer
- Mary Lee Hannafus Barr ’66 – business manager, educator
- Steve Maier ’67 – teacher, coach
- John Gurney ’70 – banking executive, sports official
- Jack Gray – band director
2015
- Bob Burky ’59 – business owner, community involvement
- Anne Lafferty Stock ’63 – educator, volunteerism
- Connie Fry Ament ’65 – school system superintendent
- Gary Seals ’66 – business executive/consultant and leader of SHS Veterans Roll Call project
- Tim Guenther ’73 – university faculty member, musician
- Bruce Berdanier ’76 – engineering firm owner, university professor
- Eileen Handley Plocher – home economics teacher
2014
- Jim Anderson ’47 – business executive, community involvement
- Russ Hepner ’58 – teacher, coach
- Tom Baker ’60 – entrepreneur, philanthropist
- Rick Fisher ’68 – teacher, coach
- Angela Phillips ’89 – business executive, community involvement
- Ron Strine – teacher, administrator, coach
2013
- David Zehner ’56 – civil engineer, U.S. Navy Band member
- Mark Lowmiller ’60 (deceased) – physician
- Evan Richards ’60 – corporate executive
- Jim Hennessy ’61 – pediatric cardiologist
- Ken Albert ’70 – business executive, community involvement
- Phil Pearson – English/humanities teacher
2012
- Tom Simon ’38 (deceased) – physician, cancer research
- Eleanor Wentz Sheehe ’39 – led founding of Shelby YMCA and served as executive secretary of American Red Cross
- George Williams ’55 – banking executive
- Rick Wright ’62 – college president
- Tom Armstrong ’70 – school system superintendent and 5-year president of SHS Alumni Association
- Mark Peeples ’70 – medical college faculty member and researcher
- Howard Plocher (deceased) – business teacher, coach
2011
- Joe Yetzer ’24 – football player, career in electric power generation.
- Harold Bliss ’39 – football player, WWII veteran, service to troubled youths.
- Doris Fisher Ryland ’41 – foster mother, nurse.
- Bill Wilkins ’60 – Coast Guard officer, leader of Harryet Snyder Memorial Science Center campaign.
- Janet Page Whitehill ’62 – initiator of multi-class reunions and charter member of SHS Alumni Association Board of Trustees.
- Lynn Guerin ’65 – business executive and co-founder of a church.
- Marie Hughes ’08 – teacher of history, English, mathematics and government.
2010
- Roger Adam ’39 – WWII Navy bomber pilot; community involvement.
- Steve Bell ’64 – teacher, middle school principal, superintendent of schools.
- Jeff Martin ’64 – nuclear engineer.
- Karen Robertson ’64 – university professor, department chair.
- Ritchey Hollenbaugh ’65 – attorney, past president of Ohio State Bar Association.
- Jeanette Bly Allard ’50 – business/accounting teacher.
- Edith Huston – English/Latin teacher.
2009
- Dick Reed ’54 – teacher, first full-time SHS athletic director.
- Russ Pfahler ’61 – corporate executive, university faculty member.
- Susie Bashore Henkel ’62 – initiator of first multi-class reunion.
- Don Troxell ’66 – military service; killed in Vietnam.
- Dave Witchey ’74 – military and commercial pilot.
- Ray Vermilya – vocal music teacher.
2008
- Bill Henson ’56 – Army officer, teacher, coach.
- Dave Winans ’60 – first president of SHS Alumni Association.
- Jim Henkel ‘63 – businessman, mayor of Shelby.
- Cheryl Chase Cramer ’72 – long-time civic leader.
- Leonore Witchey Lakshmanan ’79 – veterinary scientist.
- Bill Varble – biology teacher, coach.
2007
- Lynn Wright ’59 – space scientist.
- Karen Lafferty Hendricks ’66 – corporate executive.
- Joel Hunter ’66 – minister.
- Dave Spangler ’66 – teacher.
- Dave Jones ’69 – teacher, SHS principal.
- Emile John – mathematics teacher.
2006
- John McHugh ’51 – physician.
- Don Thurman ’56 – Air Force pilot; died in uniform.
- Larry Siegfried ’57 – basketball player at SHS, Ohio State, in NBA.
- Mike Johnson ’63 – corporate executive, author, founder of SHS Alumni Email Network and Whippet Echoes.
- Steve Smith ’64 – Ohio High School Basketball Hall of Fame.
- Bill Wilkins – teacher, coach.
2005
- Zorayda Sheets Bussom ’19 – founded Girl Scouts in Shelby; funded Girl Scout Little House.
- John Clark ’21 – nuclear scientist.
- David Yohn ’47 – medical research.
- Grant Dowds ’48 – physician.
- Ralph Phillips ’62 – entrepreneur, business leader, community supporter.
- Cathy Dodge ’65 – long-time president of SHS Athletic Boosters.
- Greg Daniel ’71 – career in computer programming.
- Byron Carmean – superintendent of schools.
- Harryet Snyder – biology teacher.
- Dwight Somerville – band director.