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2006

Dr. George H. Bonnell, Jr. (1913-1997) – 1931 – was a WWII veteran who returned to Worthington and joined his father in the practice of medicine, with their offices in front of the family home on the SE corner of the Village Green. In 1975, Dr. Bonnell closed his Worthington office and became the first faculty member in the new Department of Family Medicine at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Bonnell served on the Worthington Board of Education beginning in 1952. During his 20 years of service, he was instrumental in the growth of the district by eight new buildings. Dr. Bonnell served on the WHS Athletic Board from 1952-1972, was a team doctor for WHS for two decades, and was a founding board member of Swiminc.

Bob Foster (1930-2008) – 1948 – is a Korean Conflict veteran and spent his career in Public Service. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1955. For thirteen years, he was on the Distinguished Foreign Visitors and Presidential detail of the Secret Service, where the expectation is that you will step in front of any bullets or take out anyone intending to harm those you are protecting. He was with the Kennedy children in DC when John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, and in the films of the funeral procession, he can be seen walking behind the family. After retiring from the Secret Service, he was appointed U.S. Marshall for the southern district of Ohio. After 13 years as Marshall, he was appointed Sergeant of Arms for the Ohio House of Representatives, serving in that position for six years. Bob currently is a resident at First Community Village.

John P. McConnell – 1972 – is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Worthington Industries. Since being named to this position in 1993, John has launched a strategic plan based on the company focusing on its core strengths in the steel industry. He has positioned the company for worldwide growth through numerous international acquisitions and recently unveiled a new brand identity program. His impact in the company through the years has contributed to the company’s recognition by Fortune Magazine as one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For.” Worthington Industries operates under the philosophy of “We treat our customers, employees, investors and suppliers, as we would like to be treated.” John has authorized the support of Worthington Industries for Summer Institute, high school weight rooms, Summer School, PCC, the Worthington Bicentennial, and the Gary Smith Classic, to name a few. He has served on numerous boards including Leadership Worthington and the Worthington Educational Foundation.

Paul Snouffer – 1939 – was influenced by then Principal H.C. McCord to enroll in the Ohio State University School of Architecture. While attending OSU, he was an Army reservist and was called to service in WWII. After the war, he completed his degree from OSU in 1948 and went on to form Lawrence and Snouffer Architects that designed and remodeled many buildings and additions including Colonial Hills Elementary School, Kilbourne Middle School, Brookside Elementary School, Worthington Hills Elementary School and the Dow Nelson Field House. Paul served as a member of the committee to incorporate the City of Worthington in 1953 and was an early leader of the Worthington Cardinal Boosters. He also served as president of the Worthington High School Alumni Thirty Year Club. Paul and his late wife, Harriet, also a WHS graduate, raised three sons who graduated from WHS- Dan ’62, Stan ’65, and John ’70. Paul still resides in Worthington.

Carl Wick – 1956 - is a retired executive of NCR Corporation where his most recent position required him to be responsible for the training and development of 4,500 product development engineers in over 20 NCR plants worldwide. After graduating from Ohio State University, he began his work in education as a science teacher and high school basketball and football coach. Bob was appointed by Governor Bob Taft to the Ohio State Board of Education in 2001 and currently co-chairs the State Board’s Capacity Committee, the State Board’s Quality High School Committee and the State Board’s Quality High School Task Force. He was awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Citation of Honor for leadership contributions to engineering education and career development.

2007

George T. Harding IV, M.D. – 1946 – graduated from La Sierra University in 1949 and received his MD from Loma Linda University in 1953. He continued his postgraduate psychiatric education at The Ohio State University and Harding Hospital. George served as a psychiatrist in the US Army Medical Corps from 1955-57. He joined his father, uncles, brother and nephew in the operation of Harding Hospital which his grandfather had established in 1919 in Worthington. He served as Director of Residency Training from 1962-1981 and was President and Medical Director from 1973-1994, further developing the integration of spirituality and religion within the Bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach to Psychiatric treatment. He was a founding member of the Franklin County Mental Health and Retardation Board, the first in Ohio, and an ongoing advocate for mental health and the mentally ill. He served as President of the Ohio Psychiatric Association and was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Board of Regents, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. George has been a clinical professor of Psychiatry at The Ohio State University since 1975 and a professor of Psychiatry at Loma Linda University in California since 2004. He negotiated the merger of OSU/Harding in 1998 which integrated the operations of Harding Hospital into The Ohio State University Medical Center. George has authored numerous scientific papers and publications. He and his wife, Joan, have five daughters, all of who attended Worthington High School. They currently maintain residences both in Worthington and California.

Herndon P. Harding, M.D. – 1948 – attended LaSierra College for his undergraduate work and graduated from Loma Linda University Medical School in 1957. He completed his internship at The Ohio State University Hospital and his residency in Worthington in Psychiatry. Herndon joined the United States Public Health Service as a service obligation, caring for coastguardsmen who needed mental health care. One of his major assignments was to interview all individuals seeking Peace Corps assignments. Upon returning to Harding Hospital, which his grandfather had established in Worthington in 1919, Herndon established an addiction program for men and women of all ages and all types of addiction. During his 35 years of practice at Harding Hospital, he served as staff psychiatrist, Director of Addiction Services, Director of Residency Training, and later Associate Medical Director. In his practice, he worked with the senior population and also taught medical students at The Ohio State University Medical School for over 30 years where he held the appointment of Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. He served as the president of the Central Ohio Psychiatric Society and President of the Medical Forum of Central Ohio. His three children all graduated from Worthington High School. Herndon and his wife, Belinda, reside on a farm in Centerburg, Ohio, and work with as many as 30 children per week who have special needs from a variety of handicaps, using specially trained horses in their therapy.

Lawrence “Pete” Fields (1932-1999) – 1950 graduate - was an athlete who excelled in baseball, basketball and football. He earned a B.S. in Education from Otterbein College and a M.S. Degree in Education Administration from The Ohio State University. He played many years of amateur and semi-pro baseball in the Columbus area. For over 41 years, Pete was known throughout Ohio as an umpire. He was one of the first African Americans to officiate in the Ohio Conference. Pete was a lifelong member of St. John A.M.E. Church in Worthington. After serving in the U.S. Army, 3rd Infantry Division, Pete was employed by the Columbus Public School District, where he taught 5th and 6th grades at Eleventh Avenue School from 1958-1968. From 1968-71, he was a teacher on special assignment in the Department of Special Program Development and continued in that department from 1971-1989 as Supervisor in the Department of Federal and State Programs and as Fiscal Officer. He retired from the school system in 1990 after 32 years of service. His employment also included being a part-time instructor in the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at The Ohio State University. His numerous civic activities included: Advisory Boards of: Oakley Baptist Church Boy Scout Troop, J.J. Ashburn Youth Center and St. Charles Preparatory School. He volunteered for Neighborhood House, J. Ashburn Youth Center, The Sideliners, Golden Glove, Beatty Recreation Center, and the 11th Avenue Recreation Center. He and his wife, Rosanna, are the parents of three children, all of who graduated from Worthington High School, and the proud grandparents of two grandsons.

Charles F. “Chic” Dambach – 1962 - earned a BA degree from Oklahoma State University and an MBA degree from Wake Forest University. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia from 1967-1969 and elected Peace Corps Volunteer Leader for the region. He was President and CEO of the National Peace Corps Association from 1991-1997 and created an Emergency Response Network to link former Peace Corps Volunteers with the non-government organizations and government agencies to meet special needs throughout the world. The first major project sent dozens of volunteers to help the UN and several agencies in the aftermath of the Genocide in Rwanda. In 1998 Chic formed a team of returned Peace Corps Volunteers to work informally with the leaders of Eritrea and Ethiopia to help end their border war. Prime Minister Meles of Ethiopia recognized their team for “creating the momentum and the spirit which made the historic achievement of the peace treaty possible.” He was invited to the treaty signing ceremony. Chic was an official U.S. delegate to the United Nations World Food Conference in Rome in 2000, and in 2001 received the “Global Coalition Peace Award” from the International Platform Association. Chic served for eight years as Chairman of the Coalition for American Leadership Abroad, a network of 50 major international affairs organizations which co-sponsors nationally televised “town meetings” on foreign policy issues with the US Department of State. In 2005, he became President and CEO of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, a network of 50 leading organizations worldwide dedicated to reduce violence and foster peace and security. In 2010, Chic wrote the book "Exhaust the Limits", published by Apprentice House of Loyola University Maryland.Chic has three children and lives with his wife, Kay, in Crownsville, Maryland.

2008

Kaye W. Kessler - 1941 - Went to work at the Citizen Journal after graduating from high school. After serving in World War II, he returned to the newspaper in 1946 and was a sportswriter for 40 years at two Columbus newspapers. Kessler was on the scene for most of Jack Nicklaus' record 18 victories in the major championships. He also covered the career of Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes and the OSU basketball team that won the NCAA championship in 1960. He received the Memorial Golf Journalism Award for 2002, the PGA of America's Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism and was inducted into the Ohio Golf Hall of Fame. Kaye resides in Littleton, Colorado, and continues to work for the International golf tournament and still covers the Memorial Tournament in Dublin.

Kay (Atkinson) Ball, RN, PhD(c), CNOR, FAAN, Class of 1967, is a perioperative nurse educator and consultant working with perioperative nurses, professional organizations, healthcare facilities, industry, and legislative groups. She has served as the Laser Program Director for Mount Carmel Heath and Grant Medical Center in Columbus. In 1997, Kay was inducted as a Fellow in the prestigious American Academy of Nursing. Kay has served on many nursing boards and in 2003 was the recipient of the AORN Award for Excellence and the Ohio Nurses Association's Excellence in Political Action Award. She has authored the book, Lasers: The Perioperative Challenge and planned and assisted with the first laser surgery on a dolphin at Sea World. Kay lives in Lewis Center, Ohio, and lectures in the United States and throughout the world on laser, surgical, healthcare, and nursing issues.

2009

Marilyn Landis Fagerstrom - 1948 - Made her mark as a volunteer firefighter in Colorado. After working at the University of Nebraska as a PE professor for 25 years, she and her family moved permanently to their Colorado summer home in 1985. Marilyn took hundreds of hours of rigorous training to become a firefighter and joined the fledgling Lefthand volunteer fire department as a way to give back to the community. At the Yellowstone fires of 1988, she was the only woman in a 16-person crew, most of whom were much her junior. In 2000, she spent six straight weeks in the field on wildfires, including the monster at Mesa Verde National Park. In 2002, at age 71 and a grandmother of six, Marilyn ran the Olympic torch through Boulder, Colorado and was honored by the U.S. House of Representatives for her spirit, service and tenacity as a firefighter. Marilyn has made firefighting her life because it allows her to experience camaraderie, adrenaline-laced physical challenge and the reward of helping others.

Thomas C. Sawyer, Ph.D. - 1963 - President of Opinion Consultants, a national market research and communications consulting firm which he founded in 1997. After earning his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he began his career in 1972 as Minority Counsel of the U.S. House Communications Sub-Committee in Washington. He became Executive Vice President of the Ohio Association of Broadcasters in 1975 and returned to Washington in 1983 to accept the position of Vice President, Washington Operations, NBC, Inc. Tom has taught part-time at several universities and co-authored two textbooks on communications. He did his undergraduate and masters work at The Ohio State University and was named Outstanding Senior Man at OSU in 1967. He was Chairman of the Board of the Ohio State University Alumni Association from 1995-1997 and served on the Advisory Council to three OSU Presidents. Tom and his wife, Debbie, reside in Columbus.

Pete Kight - 1974 - Is considered a pioneer in financial services technology and today is vice chairman of Fiserv, Inc., a Fortune 500 company. Upon graduation, Pete left for California to become a college decathlete and in 1981 returned to Worthington to found CheckFree in his grandmother’s basement on Alrojo Street. In 2007 that business was sold to Fiserv for $4.4 Billion. Today if you pay bills online, access your accounts online, direct deposit your paycheck or use an ATM, chances are you are using an infrastructure that his company built. In 2007, Kight received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and was the first recipient of the Peter J. Kight Lifetime Achievement Award from Bank Technology News. He is a member of the Board of Directors of a variety of organizations. In recent years, his interest in wine and the science of grape growing led him to acquire an estate winery in California. He and his wife, Terri, are primary supporters of the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta, where they currently reside.

Dimitrious Stanley, Class of 1993, is currently a sports analyst for Buckeye Football Fever. During his years at The Ohio State University, he was a stand-out wide receiver helping the Buckeyes win four bowl titles including the 1997 Rose Bowl where, after running 72 yards in the third quarter, he caught two third-down passes as part of the remarkable final one minute fourth quarter drive and touchdown that put the Buckeyes on top 20-17. After graduating from Ohio State, Dimitrious played for the NFL Miami Dolphins and AFL New Jersey Red Dogs. In 2000, he created the non-profit organization Camp Mind Games. Driven from the discipline he learned through years of coaching and hard work, he shares his wealth of knowledge as a personal trainer with Snap Fitness in Grandview Heights. For the past seven years, Dimitrious has served as the commentator for the Battle of Worthington, the basketball game between selected middle school students and Worthington Special Olympics Stars. His compassion, enthusiasm and humor make the event a truly joyous and moving experience for players and spectators.