CHAGRIN FALLS SCHOOLS 2014 COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE CHAGRIN FALLS SCHOOLS’ ACHIEVEMENT HALL OF FAME CLASS OF INDUCTEES 2014 ENSHRINEMENT DINNER OCTOBER 23, 2014 THE TANGLEWOOD CLUB 8745 TANGEWOOD TRAIL CHAGRIN FALLS, OHIO PROGRAM Master of Ceremonies....................................John Bourisseau '64 6:00 P.M........................................................................ Social Time 7:00 P.M................................................................... Seated Dessert 7:15 P.M.............................................................................Program STUDENT PRESENTERS Joey Bistritz ‘16 Blake Wynveen ‘15 Patrick Donley ‘15 Charlie Winovich ‘15 Claudia Lewis ‘15 The Chagrin Falls Schools’ Achievement Hall of Fame Committee is especially grateful to Evans Printing for their donation of tickets, posters, and programs. ALMA MATER As the mist lifts high above us, in the valley view, There you stand, Our Alma Mater, clear and brave and true May we always keep your honor, keep your standards high Hold your memories always with us, as the years go by. Tho' in the time our paths may lead us, far across the sea, Still our love will bind us ever, hand in hand with thee Proudly singing of your honor, cry above the din Praise to thee, our Alma Mater, praise to thee, Chagrin. HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CLASS OF 2014 DR. BRUCE CAMPBELL - 1972 Dr. Bruce Campbell has been a career diplomat for the United Nations with a focus on reducing poverty and addressing humanitarian suffering. His efforts began when he worked with Salvadoran refugees in Honduras. Bruce met his wife at Harvard when he was getting his second master’s degree, their union transcends past the typical marriage, as they frequently travel on humanitarian missions together. They would work together in Honduras, Lebanon, Pakistan, the Netherlands, Ghana, Nepal, Eritrea, Zimbabwe and Vietnam. During the time of Israeli occupation in southern Lebanon, Bruce was director of a 40 bed hospital for Palestinian refugees. He was most likely the last remaining U.S. male in Lebanon at the time and was briefly taken hostage by a militia group. His next post was directing a medical program for Afghan refugees, which provided clinical services to 1,100 patients a day. During that time, his wife Ellen directed a Health Education Resource Center for which provided services to three million Afghan refugees living in Pakistan. Bruce also worked for the Royal Tropical Institute of the Netherlands as a technical advisor and consultant. He would go on to be Chief Technical Advisor for the Ministry of Health in Ghana for 4 years and in Nepal for 7 years. During that time, both countries witnessed significant reductions in Maternal and Child Mortality. Between 1984 and 2014, he led or participated in over 120 technical missions to more than 25 developing countries. One of his proudest achievements oversaw a program during the time of the sharpest decline in HIV prevalence in the history of the epidemic in Zimbabwe. After 30 years abroad, living in nine countries, Bruce is now in New York City as Director of United Nations Population Fund - Technical Division, where he leads a team of 90+ professionals who provide policy and technical advice to 6 regional and 129 country offices. DR. THOMAS MARTINKO - 1974 (COL. RET.) Dr. Thomas Martinko had a lengthy and decorated military career, which has been followed by heading two separate pediatric units at prestigious universities. Tom earned the rank of Colonel of the Medical Corps of the US Army and was deployed overseas on several occasions including stays in Honduras, Germany, and Afghanistan. During his service, he was awarded the Bronze Star, three Meritorious Service Medals, two Army Commendation Medals, Joint Services Commendation Medal, the Order of Military Medical Merit, the Combat Patch, the Afghanistan Service Ribbon, the Government War on Terrorism Ribbon, and the Armed Forces Reserve Ribbon. Tom has been published and made several presentations on adolescent and sports medicine, the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, and smoking cessation. He is a member of many medical organizations, including being a Fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics. Currently, Tom is a Associate Professor and Director of Adolescent Medicine in the Division of General Pediatrics at the University of Florida, which are positions he previously held at the University of South Alabama. Additionally, He has devoted many hours to youth programs, and is an Eucharistic minister. Recently, Tom was keynote speaker of the 2014 Chagrin Falls Memorial Day Program. DR. JAMES THOBABEN - 1974 Dr. James Thobaben is a professor and Dean of the School of Theology and Formation at Asbury Theological Seminary, one of the largest such institutions in the U.S. In addition, he currently oversees Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment, managing the decanal accreditation process for the institution. His academic fields are bioethics, social ethics, and sociology of religion. His special research interests include disability issues (especially traumatic brain injury related), social benefit from and concern with genetically-modified non-human organisms, the spiritual and cultural meaning of pilgrimage, ecclesial architecture, and rural life. As well as working full-time at Asbury, he serves as the pastor of a small, rural church, is a parttime professor in the University of Kentucky, College of Public Health, an adjunct professor at Trinity International University, and operates a small tree farm. Dr. Thobaben was Visiting Ethics Scholar in Molecular Biology at the University of Missouri. He is the recipient of several teaching grants for instruction on American rural life. His work, Healthcare Ethics: A Comprehensive Christian Resource, is used as a primary bioethics text in several graduate programs across the U.S. For both academic and spiritual reasons, Dr. Thobaben has twice walked the Camino de Santiago de Compostela and several of the long pilgrimage routes in Great Britain. Prior to assuming his current position, he was vice-president of a physical rehabilitation facility centered on the treatment of those with traumatic brain injuries and spinal cord injuries. His academic degrees are from Oberlin, Yale, and Emory. DAVID KRAVITZ - 1975 David Kravitz is an entrepreneur and inventor who has served in various senior executive, directorship, and advisory positions throughout his career in the life sciences. For over 20 years, his focus has been in the fields of trauma and transplantation medicine, women’s reproductive health, therapeutics adherence, and regenerative medicine. David is a co-inventor of several dozen medical technology patents and is a founder of numerous med tech companies, including Organ Recovery Systems, where he served as Chairman and CEO. In 2004, he was named to Fast Company magazine’s “Fast 50” list of global entrepreneurs/innovators. He presently serves as CEO of Lifeline Scientific, Inc., a company that he co-founded. David has extensive background in mergers and acquisitions, has led companies through international, public, and private institutional financings. Additionally, he has led the development, regulatory approvals, and launches of several global medical technologies, including the market leading LifePort family of solid organ recovery and transport systems. LifePort is a standard of care in clinical transplantation worldwide and has been prominently recognized for its industrial design and engineering. His accomplishments include design excellence awards from the Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry (MDEA Critical Care/Emergency Products category), an exhibition at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Popular Science Magazine’s breakthrough technology BOWN Award, and selection into the permanent Collection of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. David’s medical technology developments in transplantation have been widely studied and published in leading peer reviewed scientific journals including the New England Journal of Medicine. Throughout his career, he has remained active in early childhood education, having founded a Montessori-based preschool in his local community. Also, he is a publisher of books, innovative products, and curriculum in the field of early childhood literacy. David presently serves on the board of directors of several companies in the life sciences. DR. CHRISTINE SCHOMISCH MORAVEC - 1975 Dr. Christine Schomisch Moravec is a Staff Research Scientist and Director of Basic Research in the Kaufman Center for Heart Failure at the Cleveland Clinic. Christine is also one of three Associate Directors of the Bakken Heart-Brain Institute and holds secondary appointments in the Department of Molecular Cardiology and the Center for Integrative Medicine. Her specialty interests include heart failure, cellular malfunction in cardiac dysfunction, drugs that may improve contractility of the failing heart, and remodeling of the failing heart using both surgical and psychophysiologic interventions. Dr. Moravec also runs the human heart tissue bank at the Clinic. Christine was named an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association. In addition to her research work, she holds academic appointments at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and at Cleveland State University. Christine serves as Chair of Graduate Studies within the Lerner Research Institute and as President of the Board of Directors of the Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair, a regional science fair held each spring for 600 students from the Cleveland area. Widely published in peer-reviewed scientific journals such as the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Circulation,Circulation Research, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Dr. Moravec has authored numerous journal articles and abstracts describing work in her laboratory. She serves as a reviewer for scientific journals including Circulation, Circulation Research, the American Journal of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research, the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology and the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and is a member of local and national AHA peer-review study sections. Dr. Moravec has been invited to present her research at national and international meetings and conferences. Christine has also earned the Outstanding Educator Award from the Lerner Research Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. CHARTER CLASS – 1992 Gordon D. Nichols – 1924 Charles A. Hubay – 1936 William Stanton – 1936 Edmund M. Kagy – 1948 Stuart D. Root – 1950 Donald L. Bullock – 1953 Helen ver Duin Palit – 1966 Margaret S. Terpenning – 1970 CLASS OF 1994 Allen J. Tenny – 1926 Richard W. Evans – 1951 Joel M. Jones – 1955 Peter Van Nort – 1955 Robert J. Harmon – 1964 Donald R. Schregardus – 1968 CLASS OF 1996 Elizabeth G. Rodgers – 1919 George Clemens – 1940 Richard Draz – 1950 Joanne Griffith Root – 1951 David J. Farris – 1953 A. Lee Crawford – 1959 Katharin Alcorn Kelker – 1961 CLASS OF 1998 Carlyle S. "Brick" Harris – 1914 Robert S. Rosner – 1925 Jerald A. Finch – 1945 David C. Griffth – 1946 Robert Paul Dye – 1947 Margaret Engle – 1969 Walter H. Ettinger, Jr. – 1970 CLASS OF 2000 Bill Darlin - 1949 Peter T. Cubberley - 1949 Tim Conway - 1952 Claudia Mayner Greenwood - 1959 Nancy Vecchiarelli - 1968 Christopher R. Sherman - 1970 Gregg R. Albers - 1973 CLASS OF 2002 John B. Rodgers, Jr. - 1951 John R. Thomas - 1957 Suzanne Sutton-Wright - 1962 Karl Church Kuivinen - 1966 Linda Bartlett-Hobgood - 1971 David Boardman - 1975 Jack D. Maistros - 1975 CLASS OF 2004 David I. Draz - 1944 Denise C. Webster - 1962 John A. Church, Jr. - 1964 Jack H. Schron, Jr. - 1966 Douglas C. Baker - 1970 Tina Shafer - 1974 Steffanie Pearce Vasquez – 1976 CLASS OF 2006 Dick Bodwell – 1955 * James Fennimore Murley – 1964 Allison Engel – 1969 The Honorable David L. Fuhry – 1969 Melissa Hurst – 1973 Richard A. D'Ardenne – 1976 Dr. Helen Wu – 1978 CLASS OF 2008 Arline Miller Moore – 1943 * Brian McDermott - 1972 Kirk Spresser - 1973 Wendy Murray - 1974 Lori Bares Northrup - 1977 Tim Clegg - 1980 Dr. John Bares - 1981 Dr. Sean Kay – 1985 CLASS OF 2010 Audre Blair - 1933 Ronald McCormick - 1953 Thomas Mattern - 1955 Steve Thomas - 1965 * Rick Bolander - 1979 Steven Wu - 1981 Lee Unkrich - 1985 CLASS OF 2012 Pat Crain Hosmer - 1945 * Jack Buchanan - 1949 Dr. M. Linda Brown - 1966 Keith DeGreen - 1967 John Miller - 1972 Robert Belanger - 1977 Charlie Hartsock - 1979 * - Community Service Award ALUMNI OFFICERS Alumni Director................................................................... Brian McKenna, Class of 1988 Director Emeritus......................................................................Tom Mattern, Class of 1955 President..................................................................................... Jack Schron, Class of 1966 Vice President...............................................................Arline Miller Moore, Class of 1943 Secretary & Assistant Treasurer..................................... Jana Boysen Young, Class of 1982 Treasurer........................................................................................B.J.Koval, Class of 2003 TRUSTEES John Bourisseau...............................................................................................Class of 1964 Ruth McIlrath Cavanaugh................................................................................Class of 1971 John Tillotson...................................................................................................Class of 1972 Pam Fischley Hermanson................................................................................Class of 1974 Debi Shukys Gebler.........................................................................................Class of 1975 Sherrie Takacs Wooden....................................................................................Class of 1975 Wendy Koepf Davis.........................................................................................Class of 1978 Bill Norwick.....................................................................................................Class of 1982 Bill Phillips......................................................................................................Class of 1982 Kristin Clark Reboul........................................................................................Class of 1988 Gabe Orazen.....................................................................................................Class of 1990 Todd Kruse.......................................................................................................Class of 1993 CHAGRIN FALLS SCHOOLS’ ACHIEVEMENT HALL OF FAME COMMITTEE MEMBERS John Bourisseau, Chairperson........................................................... Class of 1964 Brian McKenna, Alumni Director..................................................... Class of 1988 Ralph Beattie..................................................................................... Class of 1943 Arline Miller Moore.......................................................................... Class of 1943 Jack Stanton...................................................................................... Class of 1952 Dan Ehrenbeit................................................................................... Class of 1967 Debbie Jackson Toothaker................................................................ Class of 1971 Ruth McIlrath Cavanaugh................................................................. Class of 1971 Debi Shukys Gebler.......................................................................... Class of 1975 Laura Wurster Jones.......................................................................... Class of 1991 CHAGRIN FALLS SCHOOLS’ ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME By alternating years for each Hall of Fame, the Chagrin Falls Schools’ Athletic Hall of Fame will induct its twelfth class in 2015. We will go through the same process next year of nominating, reviewing and researching the Athletic Hall of Fame candidates as we did this year for the Achievement Hall of Fame nominees. Be thinking of nominating someone who played an important part in the Chagrin Falls Schools athletic program. Please pass along your nomination to the CFAA via mail, phone or email.