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Ernie Allen
Inducted: 1995

Ernie Allen, Class of 1964, captained the chess team to a county championship as a junior in 1963. In the same year he was a member of his school’s WAVE-TV Quiz Bowl team that also took the city crown. He was a drum major in the famous "Marching Manual" band all three years in senior high, was a member of the National Honor Society and the tennis team where he advanced to the 7^th region semi-finals in doubles. He was student council president his senior year. Ernie spent 10 years as Director of the Louisville/Jefferson County Crime Commission where he managed the task and strike forces and $30 million under the Safe Streets Act. As Louisville’s Director of Public Health and Safety, he headed police, fire and emergency medical and disaster services. He also headed planning and implementation of a 911 emergency system. Ernie currently serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Raymond Baer Inducted: 1994	Raymond Baer was born May 7, 1905 in Louisville. When he entered Manual in 1921, he began a brilliant career in high school athletics. He starred in football, earning All-State and All-Southern honors as a tackle. In basketball he was an All-State forward and the Kentucky high jump champion in track. Captain of the basketball and track teams in 1923, he also won the Yale cup for scholarship character and athletics. After graduation Baer went to the University of Michigan where he became known as one of the greatest players in Wolverine history. In 1927 Baer became the second Louisvillian to win All-American honors. He coached in Louisville 22 years, devoting his life to helping others and giving a great many boys a start in athletics. Baer died on January 19, 1968.
Dale Barnstable Inducted: 2008	His '50-'51 Crimsons had high hopes of bringing the state basketball title back to Manual for the first time since 1931. Although they lost in the semi-finals to Clark County, “Barney” became the toast of the town. He was voted the Courier-Journal’s Basketball Coach of the Year, and even had the 1951 Crimson yearbook dedicated to him. Then the UK point shavings scandal broke, and Barney was implicated and had to leave Manual. Before his UK years he was a Bronze Star recipient of the European Theater in WW II, then he played on Adolph Rupp’s most famous teams: the 1947 NIT Champions, the 1948 NCAA Champions (the “Fabulous Five”) and the 1949 NCAA Champions where he broke into the starting lineup. After leaving Manual, Dale took a job with American Air Filter and became their leading salesman, staying there until retirement. He also became so good a golfer that he was the first Kentucky amateur to qualify for the British Senior Open. He currently is heavily involved as an energetic fundraiser for diabetes research at both UK and U of L. He and his wife Jerri also became proud parents of Cyb and Tricia, known in the '70s as the “Doublemint Twins.” Tricia currently is the proud hostess for the Barnstable/Brown Derby Eve gala that raises money for diabetes research.
Mike Basrak Inducted: 2008	In Mike’s first season of coaching football in Louisville he led the Crimsons to the 1948 State Championship. For the next six years he went on to post a 40-21-3 record at Manual, seventh on the all-time winning list. Basrak was born of immigrant parents in Bellaire, Ohio, and in 1933 he enrolled at Pittsburgh’s Duquesne University where he played center. As a senior he was chosen captain and MVP and led his team to their finest season, including an upset of the No. 1 rated University of Pittsburgh and a victory over Mississippi State in the Orange Bowl. Later that year he was named to the College All-American football team, the first All-American in Duquesne’s history. That year the All-Stars defeated the Green Bay Packers 6-0. In 1937 he was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates (now Steelers) where he played for two years before a knee injury ended his career. His teaching and coaching career began in Altoona, PA in 1939, but when WW II broke out he enlisted in the Navy and spent 3 years there. In 1948 he moved to Manual, where his first team went from a winless season in 1947 to a perfect 11-0 and the state title. He was named Kentucky High School Coach of the Year. During his nearly 30 years of dedication to coaching and education he also coached basketball and golf. Basrak passed away following complications from surgery in 1973.
Charlie Bentley Inducted: 2007	Charlie Bentley served Manual's football program on three different occasions, winding up as head coach of Kentucky's 1966 AAA State Champions. He first came to Manual in 1955 as an assistant under Bill Jasper. After a year he returned to his native Alabama, then coached at Jenkins High School in KY and at Virginia Tech before returning as an assistant for the 1961 and '62 seasons under Tom Harper. In '62 he was instrumental in the 13-0 upset of Male, which showcased his defensive coaching ability, and the Louisville Football Association named him Line Coach of the Year. He left after that season to become an assistant at Oklahoma State, but returned in 1966 when the head coach position opened up. In 1966 he earned Coach of the Year honors from the state, Scholastic Magazine, the Louisville Football Coaches Association, and The Courier-Journal. Following the 1968-69 school year, he left to try the fast food business at KFC, and in 1971 he left KFC to devote full time to his business, Bentley's Carpet Cleaning Service, now run by his son.

Hank Bertelkamp
Inducted: 1999

Henry F. "Hank" Bertelkamp was not only an outstanding scholar, but also the vice president of his class, captain of the basketball team, and a member of the Mitre Club, while he attended Manual. He was chosen to play on the Kentucky All-Star basketball team in 1949. He also earned a scholarship to the University of Tennessee, where he was voted by his teammates, basketball team captain, for the 1952-1953 season. He was also voted Most Valuable Player. After he graduated from college in 1953, Hank served in the Army as a lieutenant from 1954-1956. On June 18, 1954, he married Jane Leyburn Smith of Loudon, Tennessee. When he got out of the Army, he founded Bertelkamp Fluid Power, Inc. in 1975, after working with Robertshaw Controls Company and International Basic Economy Corporation. In 1988 he changed the company's name to Bertelkamp Automation, Inc. and now he ahs 12 different offices in Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Alabama. His son Henry F. Bertelkamp III is the President, while he is Chairman of the Board. Hank continues to live in the Knoxville area, with his wife Jane. Hank has also been involved in many communities activities around Tennessee. Which include, Chairman of the Greater Knoxville Chamber of Commerce in 1987 and 1988, a member of the Athletics Board of the University of Tennessee, a co-founder of the Orange Tie Club, the UT basketball booster organization. He is also on the Executive Committee of the Board for the Greater Knoxville Sports Corporation, the Advisory Board of the First American Bank and is Vice Chairman of the Development Corporation of Knox County. In 1996, Hank Bertelkamp was named Knoxvillian of the Year by the Juvenile Diabetes Association and is also a member of St. Johns Episcopal Cathedral. Even though Hank has become a big success since he graduated from Manual High School, he will never forget the school, or the good 'ole Manual days.

Phillip Bond
Inducted: 1995

Phillip graduated third in his class of 312 in 1972. He was president of the National Honor Society and vice president of the student council. He earned First-Team All-State honors his senior year, leading the last boys team to the state tournament. He earned a basketball scholarship to U of L where he played guard for four years. In 1975 he started for Denny Crum’s second team to reach the Final Four and was selected Most Valuable Player in the NCAA Midwest Region Tournament. He also played on the United States Pan American team that won a gold medal. He was an All-American in 1976 and broke Jim Price’s assist record, which stood for 14 years. He later played with the NBA on the Houston Rocket’s.

Kenny Braun
Inducted: 2004

Kenny lettered in baseball all three years at Manual before he became one of the 66 players that legendary coach Ralph Kimmel put into pro ball. He captained the Crimsons in ’44 his senior year, though he and teammate Ray Holton both signed pro contracts as juniors. He played for the minor league Baltimore Orioles for several seasons but as the experienced players came home from the war they began to reclaim their old jobs. Keny spent his playing days at Oklahoma City, Walkes-Barre, Neward, Binghamton, Conn. And Muskegon, Michigan before returning to Louisville. He joined the city’s fire d4partment in February, 1951, where he retired in 1980 after 30 years of distinguished service, the last 11 as District Chief. Kenny and his wife Barbara, a retired teacher, enjoy their leisure and their four grandchildren.

Bennett Brigman
Inducted: 2007

Bennett Mattingly Brigman graduated from duPont Manual Training High School in 1901. While at Manual he and eight other members of his freshman class founded the Mitre Club in October 1898. This was the first official extracurricular activity aside from athletics to emerge at the seven-year-old school, and a club that lasted until the 1960s. He was Mitre's first president.

After graduation he practiced engineering for four years, and in 1904 he took his first teaching position at a preparatory school. Three years later he returned to Manual, where he taught woodworking and drawing from 1907 to 1915, when Manual was merged with Male in the Boys High experiment. While teaching at Manual he earned B.S. and M. S. degrees from U of L. He then sought employment at U of L, where he taught physics and later became professor of engineering and drawing. In 1920 he was one of those who helped select a site for a new campus. It was on the basis of his prospectus that gifts were given by William S. Speed and Mrs. Olive (Speed) Sackett to establish the James Breckinridge Speed Foundation, the primary funding vehicle for the new school. He served as guiding architect and dean of this, the first Southern school to be accredited in all branches of engineering, until he passed away from heart failure in 1938 at the age of 56. The building that first housed Speed School is his monument, named Brigman Hall in 1949. It still stands on the south side of the horseshoe entrance to the Belknap Campus, its two short towers architecturally reminiscent of his alma mater at Brook and Oak Streets.

Frank Britt
Inducted: 2001

Frank "Buddy" Britt's life displays all the traits Tom Brokaw said exemplified the "greatest generation": "Mature beyond their years, tempered by what they had been through...true to the values of personal responsibility, duty, honor, and faith." He entered Manual in the spring of 1937, shortly after the big flood, and because of the water damage to the Manual gym, had to endure a long streetcar commute to the Halleck Hall gym to practice basketball. But he stuck with it and earned two varsity letters before graduating in 1939 1/2. His love of athletics extended into the realm of journalism, and he served as sports editor of the Manual Mirror, the official weekly newspaper founded by fellow Hall of Famer Morton Walker. He attended the University of Louisville in 1940 and '41, and after college played amateur baseball. In October of 1942 he joined the service, and was honorably discharged as a Staff Sergeant in January 1946, receiving the Good Conduct Medal and a Marksman's Medal. He returned to LG&E as an engineer's assistant and retired as a Superintendent in the Electric Distribution Department in 1987. In 1987 Buddy and his friend Joe Hutt began collaborating on a newsletter for all Brook and Oak alumni. He is also a charter member of LG&E's Retiree Relations Committee, has directed their Credit Union for 35-plus years, and was President for several years of the Employee's Association. He served as president for the Western High School Athletic Booster Club, is a member of the Louisville Amateur Baseball Veterans Association, the Filson Club, and was a volunteer worker for Shively Area Ministries. He is also a charter member of Chapel Hill United Church of Christ, where he has served as both Deacon and Elder.

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David Brown
Inducted: 2002
Alumni Achievement
Award 2001

David Brown is only the third Manual faculty member to be inducted into the Hall of Fame who was neither an administrator nor a coach. David founded the Youth Performing Arts School Vocal and Choral Music Program in 1978. His last year will always be remembered by his leading the Manual/YPAS Concert Choir in a ten-minute presentation at the inaugural ceremonies for President George W. Bush. A native of Oklahoma and a graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University and the University of Louisville, he is a prize-winning soloist as well as an award-winning teacher and conductor. He was selected as the Kentucky State Secondary Music Teacher of the Year in 1997 and as the state’s Outstanding Secondary Music Teacher by the Music Educator’s National Conference. David currently is director of music at St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Louisville and of the professional summer theater in Bardstown, Kentucky, Stephen Foster – the Musical. He has sung with all the professional music organizations in Louisville as a soloist, including the Louisville Orchestra, the Bach Society and Kentucky Opera and Louisville Ballet. In addition to earning a multitude of scholarships to universities and conservatories, his students consistently won numerous singing contests. Graduates from the YPAS program now sing professionally in venues ranging from cruise ships to the Metropolitan and New York City Opera companies as well as in amateur and church choirs.

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Gina Brown
Inducted: 2001

Gina Brown was the first female basketball player at Manual to make the average fan sit up and take notice. She served notice that she was a force to be reckoned with in her debut year when she led the Lady Crimsons in scoring, the first of four seasons for that accomplishment. As a sophomore, having grown to 5-11, she made the All-Region tournament team, scoring an average of 19 points a game. In her junior year the Lady Crimsons were invited to the Louisville Invitational Tournament and she was named to the All-Tourney team, where they ended an Assumption streak of 40 straight regular season wins that year. In the summer of 1980, Gina was the Most Valuable Player in an Ohio Northern University Summer Camp, giving her national exposure for the first time. In her senior year the Courier-Journal named her to its All-State team, was All-LIT again, wa named to the East-West All-Star Team, the Kentucky-Indiana All-Star Team, and was chosen as a Converse All-American by the National High School Coaches Association. She averaged 21 points and 14 rebounds per game and had scored 1,702 points in her high school career, an amazing 570 her final season. In the meantime she served as student council president and on the school advisory committee, carrying a 3.0 academic average. On May 17, 1981 Principal (and Hall of Famer) Joe Liedtke announced that Gina's jersey (Number 44) would be retired, the first time a female Manual athlete had earned this honor. Western Kentucky University signed her to a full four-year-scholarship, and she made the Ohio Valley Conference All-Freshman Team for 1981-82. In the next three years she would become the Lady Toppers' Defensive Player of the Year, a member of the Sun Belt All-Conference Team, Co-Captain and a member of WKU's 1000-Point Club. In 1985, her senior year, the Lady Toppers made it to the Women's NCAA Final Four, having been ranked as high as fourth in the country. Today Gina is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Ventiv Health. She still loves the game and coaches a team at her church, Elizabeth Baptist, in Atlanta.

Nat Cartmell
Inducted: 1999

Nathanial J. Cartmell was probably not only Manual's but the world's "fastest man". He was in both the 1904 and 1908 Olympic Games representing the United States of America by wining medals both years. He then became the world sprint champion and became famous as a track coach for the University of North Carolina, West Virginia University, Penn State University, Manhattan College, and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He began his long term to fame at duPont Manual Training High School, at the beginning of the 20th century. He was captain of the Crimson football team in 1902, being one of kind playing three different positions, of tackle, halfback, and fullback, in one season. In 1903, he was track captain. He then entered the University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 1903. In St. Louis, in 1904, during the Olympics, he ran second in both the 100 and 200 meter sprints, and in 1905 set a new world record for the 50-yard dash, at least here in Louisville. In 1907, he won, in three events, the National Collegiate Championship, and the same year became international 100-yard champion. In 1908, he returned to the Olympics in London, and helped to win the United States a gold medal in relays. One year later, the champion, Robert Kerr, was beat by Cartmell, at 220 yards. Cartmell also became world professional sprint champion in 1909. In 1912, he retired undefeated as a professional runner, and began his coaching career. He was voted into the Pennsylvania Athletic Hall of Fame in 1958, because of his great coaching at Penn State. He was inducted into the Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame in 1963, along with fellow Manual Hall of Famer Pee Wee Reese. On August 23, 1967 Nathanial J. Cartmell died in Forest Hills, N.Y.

Butch Charmoli
Inducted: 1994

Although he came to Manual in 1938 and helped coach a championship football team, it wasn’t until the early sixties that Louis Joseph "Butch" Charmoli became known as "Mr. Manual." It was Butch who invented Red and White Day. The new Manual gym was named after him, and at the time he was the fist living person in the city to have a building named after him. Part of his legacy is also a scholarship fund in his name administered by Manual.

Carolle Jones Clay
Inducted: 2007

     Carolle graduated from Manual in 1974 and from Western Kentucky University in 1978. Now VP and Managing Director of Community Relations for Republic Bank and Trust Company, she also serves or has served on 17 different boards. She has been on the Derby Festival Board of Directors since 1998. She has been a director on the boards of Presentation Academy, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA, the Bell of Louisville/Spirit of Jefferson, the Kentuckiana Girl Scouts Advisory, the American Red Cross, the Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation and the Junior League of Louisville. Currently she serves on the boards of the Kentucky Derby Festival Foundation, Actors Theater of Louisville, the Landmarks Commission, the Better Business Bureau, AAA Kentucky, Women 4 Women, the Greater Louisville Sports Commission, the Main Street Association and the Advisory Sustainer of the Junior League of Louisville.
     Carolle has been part of 12 committees worthy of mention, including Leadership Kentucky, the Center for Women and Families, Gallopalooza, the Presbyterian Community Center Hall of Fame, the Kentucky Museum of Arts and Crafts Bourbon Ball, the American Heart Association's Crystal Heart Gala, the Kentucky Center for the Arts, "Go Red for Women," and was honorary chair of the Louisville Urban League's 2006 Diversity Soiree. Her church involvement centers on the Cathedral of the Assumption where she was team leader of the renovation project in 1993 and co-captain of the Cathedral Heritage Foundation Fundraisers.
      Carolle has received many awards for her involvement but is proudest of winning the African American Catholic Leadership Award in 2003, the Junior League Volunteer of the Year in 1995, the Chestnut St. YMCA Black Achiever Award in 1993 and 2004, and "Most Admired Woman" in 2005 by Today's Woman magazine.

Jim Cooksey
Inducted: 2003

Jim was a three-year starter for the football Crimsons and the only junior to start for the fabled 1959 state championship team, he was chosen on The Courier-Journal's All-Academic Team the same three years. He was team captain in 1960 when he was All-City, All-State and All-Southern. He also captained the City team in the old City-County All-Star game. Recruited by Duke, Georgia Tech, Tennessee and Michigan, he chose instead to attend the University of Louisville. He chose U of L-and social work-as a way of giving back something to the community that had sustained him. He served at Cabbage Patch for more than 18 years. Jim earned a B.A. in 1964, an M.A. in 1967 and a Ph.D. in 1974, All from U of L and all in clinical psychology. After 12 years of clinical experience, he was appointed chief of psychology at Kentucky's only psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents-Children's Treatment Service. In 1983 he was appointed chief of psychology to the Clinical Services Branch within the State Department for Social Services. In 1989 he was invited to teach an advanced family therapy course in the Doctor of Psychology program at Spalding University. He has been there ever since, and is now an associate professor. Over the years he has developed a national reputation in the area of family therapy. For the past 15 years he has also maintained a private practice. He and his wife, the former Anne Majors, have three children: Philip, who graduated from Manual and is now a senior at U of L currently completing two degrees; Lily, also a Manual grad and a Dean's List junior and member of The Kentucky Kernel staff at UK, and Richard, a senior at Manual who was a place kicker on the football team.

Tom Crawford
Inducted: 2000

As a skinny student with a 2.0 average, Tom Crawford was concerned only with football during his days at Manual. Although he never attended a single chemistry class, he's written 2 chemistry texts that are still in use.He worked two years as a draftsman and then served two years in the Navy during the Korean War. Fellow engineers convinced him to attend college, and four years later he graduated from the University of Louisville with honors, and was offered a fellowship. He began teaching at the University, while earning his doctorate in Physical Chemistry on the Belknap Campus. Crawford was also a visiting lecturer at Columbia University and an associate professor at Cal Tech. He's now a spokesman for the American Chemical Society and has provided a traveling chemistry show for the past 15 years. He published a lab book that is still used and co-authored a Freshman Chemistry text. Since 1995 he has served as Director of the Louisville Region Science Fair, and brags good-naturedly on Manual's entries. Among his many other achievements, Tom Crawford received the Kentucky Association Environmental Award and the U of L Alumni Association Order of Merit Award.