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Warren Mahan Inducted: 2005	A member of the 1948 state championship football team and of Western Kentucky University ’s first bowl team, Warren went to Naval Flight School in 1953-54 and became a battalion commandeer. As a captain he flew planes for the Marine Corps through 1958. He then accepted a job as Eastern Regional Manager of the Mengel Company, and from 1964 to 1971 he served as New England Regional Manager for W. R. Grace. In 1971 he founded and became President of Dunhill of Maine, an executive recruiting service which now has 320 offices across the country. He retired in 1999 and now lives in Maine. His hobbies are traveling and writing short stories.
ShaRae Mansfield Inducted: 2007	Followers of girls' high school basketball will not soon forget the imposing presence of ShaRae, '97, one of three players among the Lady Crimsons to make the First Team All-State squad (Gina Brown and Gwen Doyle being the other two). ShaRae was also on Street and Smith's First Team All-America list in 1997 and was named Gatorade's Player of the Year in Kentucky the same year. After accepting a scholarship to Western Kentucky University her career blossomed. From 1998 to 2001, the 6-2 forward consistently led the Lady Hilltoppers in scoring and rebounding. After leading Western to the Sun Belt Championship her junior year she was chosen pre-season player of the year prior to her senior season, and that same year she was named WKU's Female Athlete of the Year. She was drafted by the WNBA Champion Houston Comets, but retired after less than one full season due to knee injuries. She was chosen on the All-Time Sun Belt Women's Team and last year was named to WKU's All-Time Centennial Team.
Bobby Marr Inducted: 2003	When a shoulder injury ended his baseball career, Bobby came back to Louisville and completed his college at U of L, graduating in 1965. He returned to Manual and stayed for six years, teaching history and coaching cross-country, basketball and baseball. In the fall of 1971, he moved to Winter Park High School (Florida) where he has been the past 32 years. His high school baseball career boasts legendary statistics. Manual brought home state championships in both 1957 and 1959, and from '57 through '59 they won 88 games and lost only 12. After graduation from Manual, Bobby attended Indiana University where he pitched for one year, posting a record of 6 wins and 3 losses, 72 strikeouts in 66 innings and an earned run average of 1.50. In May of 1961 he signed a contract with the Boston Red Sox. In his only pro season without injuries, he had 11 wins and 5 losses, starting 20 games and completing 15. At Winter Park High School he coached six different sports. In 1974 he took the boys basketball team to the state runner-up position, and in 1987 won the state title with the girls team. He served 10 years as athletics director, during which time Winter Park was awarded Athletic Program of the Year in Florida by the state coaches association five times. Aside from being named Athletic Director of the Year by the Florida Athletic Coaches Association (FACA), he also was inducted into the FACA Hall of Fame and the Winter Park High School Hall of Fame. Although Bobby retired from his first love-athletics--in 1997, he continues to teach history at Winter Park, passing on his love of history to a new group of 17 year-olds each year. Bobby and wife, Jane, have been married 19 years and their combined families include three daughters, Pam Marr, Kristy Deaton and Heather Wilson. They also have two grandchildren-Zachary and Allison.
Ed Martin Inducted: 2003	It is doubtful that anybody in the United States has announced high school football for 50 years-anybody other than Ed Martin that is. Ed began this avocation in the fall of 1946 at Male High's old Maxwell Field just after getting out of the Navy that spring. He was announcing all games played by Male, Flaget and, occasionally, St. X. Two weeks later, the announcer at Manual Stadium moved to Owensboro, and he was asked to do Manual's games, too, on Saturday afternoons. The rest, as they say, is history. In 50 years he announced over 1200 games. Before he retired from announcing in 1995, he had worked for five different principals and five different athletic directors. "When Bob Jacobs stepped down as A.D. in 1995, I thought it was a good time to hang up the microphone," he added. For 22 years he worked as an executive secretary to the vice president for traffic at the L & N. In 1962 he became director of special events at the Louisville Chamber of Commerce, then was promoted to Director of Business Development. In 1968 he became Executive Vice President for the New Albany Area Chamber, a position he held for 16 years He is also a "tennis nut." At the age of 82, he still plays the game four days a week. The United States Tennis Association ranked him as the number one player in Kentucky (doubles) for both 1992 and '93 for players over 70. "If Manual had fielded a tennis team back in the thirties, I could have been a star," he laughed. Ed and his wife, Louise, have been married for 55 years. They have four children-daughters Janice, Vicki, Jackie and son Ed, Jr.-- seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Mitch McConnell
Inducted: 1994

Senator Mitch McConnell was president of the student body while at Manual, graduating in 1960. He received a B.A. with honors from the University of Louisville, where he was also president of the student body, College of Arts and Sciences. In November, 1990, he was elected to his second term in the United States Senate, only the third Republican in Kentucky history to win a second term for statewide office. The senator was first elected in 1984, defeating two-term incumbent Walter Huddleston.

Sam McMeekin
Inducted: 2007

Sam McMeekin, Manual 1906, served as the first sports editor of the Courier-Journal in 1911, while still in college, and later became a well-respected expert on thoroughbred racing. He held the editorship for 11 years, except for two years in the Army in WWI. He had earned a law degree at U of L in 1912, where he also captained the track team. His love for horse racing grew steadily after 1923 when he went to work for Churchill Downs. In 1937 he was named Safety Director by Mayor Joseph Scholtz, himself a 1908 Manual alumnus. He resigned in 1941 to return to Churchill Downs where he was a placing judge and a steward. From 1941 to 1948 he was presiding judge at Keeneland and at Lincoln Fields near Chicago. He died in 1965.

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Pat McNeil
Inducted: 2001

Like so many of his fellow Manual Hall of Famers, Pat McNeil dedicated his entire career to the pursuit of excellence. He received the Kentucky School Board Association's prestigious F. L. DuPree Award as the Most Outstanding School Administrator in the state for 1981. In his Manual career, under football coach Ray Baer, as team captain he earned All-State honors and was chosen All-Southern as well. He says that he was proud to "play in the last Thanksgiving Day game, indeed in the last game and on the last Manual team coached by Ray Baer." The 1944 Turkey Day contest was a moral victory for Manual: "Male was favored by two or three touchdowns, but we played as hard as we knew how and tied them 7-7." In April of 1945 Pat joined the Navy, and was home on liberty when he graduated, receiving his diploma in full uniform. He joined the Seabees and was discharged in June of 1946. He went to UK on a football scholarship that fall, then transferred to Western Kentucky (then State College) in 1946. He earned three football letters there, and graduated in June of 1949. Pat flourished in teaching, then became a school principal and Superintendent of the Hopkins County School System. He now enjoys retirement in Madisonville, where he golfs, fly fishes and reads "a lot of best sellers."

Paul McPherson
Inducted: 1998

Back in the late forties Army had a pair of running backs known as "Mr. Inside" and "Mr. Outside." Their real names were Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis. In 1959 Manual also had a pair of backs, one an inside power runner and one an outside speedster. Sherman Lewis ran around people; Paul McPherson ran over people. If Lewis was the greyhound, McPherson was the raging bull. It’s been almost 40 years since these two backs led Manual to an undefeated, untied, 12-0 record, a state championship, and the record-breaking 62-0 licking of Male High November 26, 1959. But local sports observers still consider that team the greatest high school football team in state history.

John Meihaus
Inducted: 1997

John owned Thanksgiving Day, 1940. In a misty rain beforea capacity crowd of 17697, he gained a record 300 yards to lead the Crimsons to a 25-10, third-straight win over Male. He was allstate in football in 1940, having led the City in scoring his senior year, was voted The Courier-Journal Oustanding Athlete for 1940-1941 and was State Champion in both the 100 yard dash in 1940 and the 220 yard dash in 1941. He won three State Championships in football at St. X and three Track. He was named football coach of the year.

Leland Melear Inducted: 2001	Leland Melear had a great career at Manual in two sports. Not only was he an All-Stater in basketball, but played on two state baseball champion teams in 1957 and 1959. He and fellow senior Bobby Marr co-captained the 1959 team. He was considered the second-best basketball player in Kentucky, behind Pat Doyle, and was chosen for the Kentucky-Indiana All Stars. His signing at Virginia Tech came due to a combination of Louisville connections. Bill "Moon" Conde, former Manual football coach, had recently taken a job at VPI as Jerry Claiborne's assistant, and he helped convince basketball coach Chuck Noe that Leland had to be in the fold. In addition, his assistant coach for the All-Star squad, Guy Strong, was hired as Joe's assistant and also influenced Noe to sign Leland. At Virginia Tech he captained both the basketball and baseball teams and received the President's Leadership Award. He was also an All-Conference performer in both sports and was elected to the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame in 1989. After graduating in 1963 he played pro baseball briefly in the Giants' chain, then returned to Louisville, where he worked for Ford for two years, GE for 16 years, then moved to Chicago in 1985. In 1994 he moved to Missouri where he currently is plant manager at the Manchester, MO facility of Dana Corporation.
William Scott Miller Inducted: 2004	William Scott Miller served in the Kentucky State Senate for 16 years – 1957 to 1973. He represented the 36^th District, at that time taking in all of Jefferson County outside the city from Eastwood to Valley Station. He was chief sponsor and floor manager of the legislation which put the University of Louisville into the state system. He also co-sponsored the Wild Rivers Bill. A native of Crescent Hill, Scott graduated from Manual in 1945, but left for the U.S. Navy before his graduation day. Upon his discharge from the Navy, he entered the University of Kentucky, attended the Academy of International Law at The Hague, Netherlands, and graduated from U of L Law School in 1951. He worked for the Louisville Transit Company before going into private practice with his father in 1953. He served on the Board of Governors for the old Louisville General Hospital and was on the Board of Trustees for U of L for eight years, becoming chairman in his last year. He is a lifelong environmentalist, a boater and a geography and history buff.
Dr. Maureen Morehead Inducted: 2006	In the introduction to A Sense of Time Left, a book of Maureen Morehead's most moving poetry, Kentucky's Poet Laureate Sena Jeter Naslund compares her to Emily Dickinson. Dr. Morehead has written two other books: In a Yellow Room, another poetry collection, and Our Brother's War (with Pat Carr) a collection of both poems and stories related to the Civil War. She has been published in numerous literary journals, including The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, The Greensboro Review and Poetry Magazine. She received an Al Smith Fellowship for her poetry from the Kentucky Arts Council and has been nominated twice as the state's Poet Laureate. She is one of the most soft-spoken faculty members at Manual, but teaches one of the most difficult classes in the curriculum -- Advanced Placement Junior English. Dr. Morehead has taught at Manual since 1992. She was adviser for the Crimson-Record for eight years and founded Manual's literary magazine, One Blue Wall, which has been published for 12 years.
Lester Morrison Inducted: 2004	Lester Morrison, another member of Tom Brokaw’s "Greatest Generation,:" worked tirelessly for Manual High School for 20 years as a leader in what was then known as the Alumni and booster Club. Lester went into the Army Air Corps in 1944 and served in the Pacific. After the army he was employed by International Harvester where he retired after 30 years. He then went back to work as a building engineer for the citizens Plaza Building until 1990. Lester also dedicated many years to the Boy Scouts, receiving the National Scout Award in 1962 and the Service award in 1963. He is also active in Masonry, a member of Sunset Lodge #915 for the last 50 years and a member of the Kosair Shrine. He is currently vice president of the Oakdale Neighborhood Association, has served on the Mayor’s Committee, and has been active as a Fraternal Order of Police Associate. In May of 2003, Class Day, Manual presented Lester with an honorary diploma in a ceremony joined by other veterans who had also dropped out of high school to join the war. Leslie and his wife Joan have a daughter, Leslie Ann, and a son, Lester, Jr., "Butch", who both graduated from Manual.

John Jacob Niles Inducted: 1998	John Jacob Niles, Class of 1909, was a noted composer, folk singer, and one of our country’s leading authorities on American folk music. He is probably best known for the folk song Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair, although each Christmas another of his compositions, I Wonder as I Wander, becomes more popular. Niles wrote several books collecting and recording the folk songs he discovered. He died at his Boot Hill Farm near Lexington on May 1, 1980.
	Baseball was Donnie Noel's first love. In fact his diamond skills were good enough to grant him a shot at the pros. So it's ironic that he gained fame in college as a distance runner. As is expected of pitchers, Donnie ran to stay in shape. At the University of Louisville he became a distance runner for the same reason, but in the sport of cross country he set a record in the two-mile run that stood for 25 years. This feat ushered his way into the U of L Athletics Hall of Fame. At Manual Donnie lettered in baseball in 1944 and '45. He became one of Coach Ralph Kimmel's 66 protégés to sign a professional contract after a successful senior year when he pitched the first ever perfect game for the school, blanking Memorial High of Evansville. He was also an honor roll student, a member of the National Honor Society and a recipient of the Mitre Trophy. In the spring of 1945, he, along with teammates and twins Jack and Gene West, signed with the old Baltimore team of the International League. He played with the Orioles that summer. Returning to Manual in the fall, he graduated in the class of 45 1/2. Then in February of '46, along with Hall of Famers Hal Taylor, Bill Schooley and J. W. Duke, he joined the Coast Guard. After his service stint Donnie attended U of L for two years ('47-'48 and '48-'49), played baseball for them one year and set his two-mile record in the other. He lettered in both track and cross country both years. He became a firefighter and a star in the old Louisville Amateur Baseball Federation (LABF) League before hiring on at LG&E, where he worked for 33 years, retiring in 1990. Donnie and his wife, Minnie, have three children-Linda, Michael and Gary-and four grandchildren.
Donnie Noel Inducted: 2003
Jerome Perry Inducted: 2003	Jerome Perry was a member of Western Kentucky University's greatest basketball team and, along with Hall of Famer Phillip Bond, shares the distinction of being the only Manual graduates to have been part of an NCAA Final Four team. At Manual he was a two-sport star, lettering in both football and basketball. He also briefly ran track. His exploits on the hardwood his senior year won him All-City, All-Region and All-State honors. His 1967 Crimson basketball team, coached by former UK great Lou Tsioropoulos, lost a heartbreaker in the Seventh Region Final. A missed wide open lay-up with two seconds on the clock signaled defeat for the Reds. Gene Rhodes convinced Jerome to come to Western, and he became part of a great recruiting class that included Jim McDaniels, Clarence Glover and Jim Rose. In both his sophomore and junior years ('68-'69 and '69-'70) he made the All-Ohio Valley Conference Team as a starting guard for Coach John Oldham's Hilltoppers. A knee injury in practice his senior year and two subsequent surgeries kept him out of the lineup for the team that finished third in the NCAA Championship in 1971. Western eventually had to vacate their third place position because of McDaniels' admission that he had hired a professional agent prior to finishing his senior year of eligibility. Sadly, they were forced to return the trophies and their share of the gate. With basketball now a thing of his past, Jerome hit the books. Academically named to Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities, he graduated from WKU in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in industrial education and technology. He worked for Xerox for six years before moving to the 3M Company. He is now a regional sales manager for 3M and manages sales from Wisconsin to the Pacific Ocean. He has two daughters-Kanesha, also a Manual graduate, and Jerrika, a junior at WKU-and a four-year-old granddaughter.

Walt Perry
Inducted: 1997

Walt Perry was the first African American to play baseball at Manual. It can be said safely 35 years later that the Crimson baseball team could not have won the 1962 Championships without Walt. It took three wins in four days to claim the title. Manual won the three games and Walt was the winning pitcher in all three. In the Championship game Perry gave up only two hits. He became only the third pitcher to win all three games in the state baseball tournament.

Buddy Pfaadt
Inducted: 2000

Manual has employed many successful football coaches in the pat 106 years, but who compare to Coach Buddy Pfaadt. He started as a freshman at St. X, , ended up at Brrok and Breck where he eanred three letters in football and basketball and made All-State in both. After graduating in 1962, he played as a defensive back all four years at EKU, where he was named Little All-American. He coached at Western and in West Virginia before tkaing his job at Manual in 1975. His first year, the team beat Trinity, DeSales and Bishop David, although he says his best team was probably the team of '77. Like a good head coach, he gives credit for his success to many assistants, and after compiling a 46-32 won-loss record at Manual, he left coaching for 3 years, and then returned at PRP until 1987. He retired when his son, Shawn began his basketball career there. Buddy is married to Vicki Ann Gehret, a '63 Manual graduate and former model.

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Al Pfeffer
Inducted: 2001

Al Pfeffer taught U.S. History for 31 years in Jefferson County, but it is his life that provides the best lessons. He was the answer to an obscure trivia question that rang true for 36 years, the amount of time it took to make baseball an "official" event in the Olympics. In 1956 the Amateur Athletic Union decided to allow baseball as a demonstration sport in the Olympic Games at Melbourne, Australia. Al was in the army and was chosen as one of 24 players on the first ever United States Olympic Baseball Team. Starting at second base against an All-Australian team in front of 120,000 spectators, he hit a home run his first time at bat. His team won 12-2, and that was the only baseball game played in the Olympics until it became a recognized sport in 1992. At Manual Al played infield three years for Hall of Famer Ralph Kimmel. He got a scholarship to Georgetown College upon graduating in 1951, and earned a bachelor's degree there in 1955. He entered the service, was released in 1957, and then coached baseball at Georgetown while working on his Master's Degree at the University of Kentucky. In 1959 he began teaching at Shawnee High School, then moved to Manual in 1964, replacing Hall-of-Famer Neal Skeeters as head baseball coached. In 1972 he moved to Iroquois High School and led their basketball team, the Raiders, to their first-ever District Title in 1973. He moved to Eastern High School in 1981 to get closer to his home on Echo Trail and retired in 1988. For the last nine years he has been involved in distributing clothing and shoes to the needy of Louisville at various churches, boys' clubs and schools, with the Free Clothing Enterprise.

Gwynne Tuell Potts
Inducted: 2008

In 1966, the year she graduated from Manual, Gwynne was one of the editors of the Crimson-Record. Today she is well-respected as the co-editor (with historian Samuel W. Thomas) of George Rogers Clark and Locust Grove, a 230-page account of Virginia’s role in the Revolution and in the settling of the Bluegrass. She graduated from Western Kentucky University in 1970, and taught high school history from 1971 through 1983 before involving herself with the preservation of Louisville’s past. She served as the Executive Director of Historic Locust Grove from 1985 to 1994, and also directed the 1990 bicentennial celebration. From 1998 to 2004 she served as president and CEO of the Blackacre Foundation. In 2006 she co-chaired the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Celebration. She still serves Locust Grove as member/secretary of the Board of Directors.

Shirley Burns Powers
Inducted: 1996

Shirley Burns Powers, Class of 1959, is the top woman health care administrator in the city of Louisville. She has dedicated herself to nursing and health care since first graduating from Norton Infirmary with her nursing diploma. Known as a tireless designer of new patient care organizational approaches, she implemented Louisville’s first continuing education program for nurses, its first transitional care center and its first intensive care center for patients.

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Jim Proffitt
Inducted: 2001

Jim Proffitt was one of 125 freshmen who wanted to play football for Paul "Bear" Bryant at the University of Kentucky in the fall of 1950. Four years later he became one of only five of that original group to graduate. At Manual he had earned three football letters and captained the team in 1949, his senior year. He was All-City and All-State, a standout performer at end, both on offense and defense. "I played on two perfect squads at Manual," he laughs, "the 0-10 team under Hilman Holley in 1947 and the 10-0 team in 1948 under Mike Basrak." The 1948 team claimed the State Championship. He also lettered in basketball and track at Manual, and was the KHSAA shot put champion in 1950 with a then-record toss of 49 feet, 10 1/2 inches. Bryant called Jim one of the best blockers in football, but his biggest thrill was leaping high in the end zone to pull down a 17-yard pass from quarterback Herbie Hunt to tie heavily-favored Tennessee in 1952. "It snowed the whole game that year," remembers Jim. "When I came down with the ball, the back of my head stuck in the snow. Sportswriter Ed Ashford said that our comeback snapped the hex Tennessee had over us. Kentucky beat them the next three years." Jim graduated in 1954 with a B.S. in commerce and coached football one season at Manual before serving as a Second Lieutenant in the Air Force. He then attended law school at U of L and was admitted to the bar in 1962. He practiced civil law for two years, until he chose to help his ailing father in the grocery business. He bought that business, Gateway Supermarkets, and ran it for the next 28 years. He started a new career at age 61 when he graduated from the Police Academy, and has worked with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office for ten years.

Pee Wee Reese
Inducted: 1994

Harold Henry Reese’s yearbook epitaph in the Crimson of ’35 reads "Everyone knows him as Pee Wee, but he is really Charley Gehringer in disguise. Watch his dust. He’ll be a big leaguer some day." This turned out to be quite an understatement. When the Brooklyn Dodgers bought Reese from the Sox for $35,000 and four players in 1940, Ebbets Field saw him step into the lineup to replace an aging Leo Durocher. He remained in the Dodger lineup, except for three seasons in the Navy, until he retired in 1958. His statue stands now in front of Louisville's Slugger Field.

Col. John E. Ridge
Inducted: 2006

John Edward Ridge was instrumental in the founding and leadership of New Directions, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing affordable housing in Louisville for poor and working families. John graduated from Manual in 1932 and from U of L in 1936. From 1941 to 1945 he served on active duty in the U.S. Army, reaching the rank of captain. He was stationed at Fort Kamehameha on December 7, 1941 and was one of the first to fire on Japanese planes when Pearl Harbor was attached. He served in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, and fought in the battle of Monte Cassino. He is a graduate of Command General Staff College and the Industrial War College. He maintained his military service in the Kentucky National Guard and the Army Reserves until he retired with the rank of colonel in 1969.
An MIA designated real estate appraiser, John worked for 25 years at the Federal Housing Administration (now HUD) before entering the private sector in 1969. John is a member of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, the Retired Officers Association, the Military Order of the World Wars, the Kiwanis Club, the Louisville Boat Club and Holy Spirit Church. He is also the recipient of the John R. Carpenter Award for his efforts to provide housing for the poor.

A.J. Ries
Inducted: 1994

Arthur J. Ries graduated valedictorian from Manual in 1926. He became the principal at Manual in 1949. He ushered in co-education in 1950 and saw the successful move from Mr. Du Pont’s monument at Brook and Oak to Halleck Hall at Second and Lee. In the latter days of his principalship, he was faced with all the problems that go with an inner-city school.

Paul F. Roye
Inducted: 2008

A 1971 graduate, Paul was president of his senior class, vice president of the band, sports editor of The Crimson-Record, a member of the National Honor Society, the Latin Club, Future Teachers of America, the Pep Club and Junior Achievement. He won an academic scholarship to Dartmouth College, where he earned an A.B. cum laude. He also holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was Note and Comment Editor of the University’s Journal of Law Reform. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association. He has served the U.S. as director of the Division of Investment Management for the Securities and Exchange Commission. During his tenure he received the Chairman’s Award of Excellence, the highest honor that can be bestowed upon an SEC staff member. He is currently a senior vice president of the Fund Business Management Group of Capital Research and Management Company, and is also director of American Funds Service Company, executive vice president and principal executive officer of The New Economy Fund and SMALLCAP World Fund, Inc., and senior vice president of AMCAP Fund, Inc. and American Mutual Fund, Inc.

Robert Royer
Inducted: 2003

Royer graduated first in the Class of 1945 ½ at Manual and in college continued his scholarly habits. Only three years later he was graduated magna cum laude from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering as the Terre Haute school's valedictorian. In May of 1949, fresh out of college, he was hired as an engineer by the Louisville Gas and Electric Co., and, excepting two years spent in the military from 1953 to '55, spent 39 years with the company. He retired in 1990 as Chairman of the Board. At LG&E he worked his way to a vice president's chair, named to that position in September, 1964. Then in November, 1978, he was named President and Chief Executive Officer, remaining in that position until June of 1989 when he took over the Chairmanship. Over the years he has served on such distinguished boards as the J. Graham Brown Foundation (trustee, 1980), Alliant Health System (1989-'94), Broadway Renaissance Advisory Board (1988-'89) and the Kentucky Energy Resources Commission (1975-'79). In addition, he has served as a director for Citizens Fidelity Corporation, the Kentucky Derby Museum, the Kentucky Science and Technology Council, the Louisville Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, the Downtown Optimist Club, the Louisville Automobile Club, Leadership Louisville and the Executives Club of Louisville. He is, however, most proud of his affiliation with the Boy Scouts of America. He has served on the Old Kentucky Home Council Executive Board since 1967, acting as President from 1982 to '84 and Trustee from 1984 to '88. He also served as vice president and president of the Southeast Region's Executive Board. He has earned several awards with the Scouts, including a 40-year Veteran Award granted in July of 1995. He is also listed in Who's Who in America and in Current Affiliations. He married Carol Pierce in Terre Haute June 24, 1950. They have three children-Jenifer, Todd and Douglas-and two grandchildren.

Earl Ruby
Inducted: 1994

Earl Ruby graduated from Manual in 1923. He served as sports editor from 1938 until 1968. His daily column, Ruby’s Report, was read by subscribers for over three decades. In 1945 he won the National Headliner Award for the nation’s best sports columns. Ruby was the co-founder of the Derby Festival and is responsible for starting the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame into which he was inducted in 1975. Ruby covered some of the biggest sports events in the country including several World Series and every Derby.