SHS Hall of Distinction

Shelby High School Hall of Distinction Inductees

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.