Hall of Fame Biographies

The current members of the C.H.S. Hall of Fame are listed below in alphabetical order.

       Barbara Snedeker Bates, '36
             Editor & Author
           Inducted in 1996

After graduating from Cheltenham High School in 1936, Barbara Snedeker Bates attended Wellesley College in Massachusetts. After completing her degree, she spent a year working for the Times Chronicle and the Glenside News as the "assistant everything". Her college experiences earned her a job with Westminster Press in Philadelphia as the Editor of Books for Young People. She was also able to raise a family and write eleven of her own books. Two, The Happy Birthday Present and The Happy Puppy, have even been translated into French and German. She has also taught several adult school courses in creative writing. In 1986, Bates was honored with the 16th Drexel Citation for contributions to children's literature. Currently, she lectures in creative writing at Beaver College in Glenside.

The Honorable Michael W. Baylson, 57

Michael M. Baylson, class of 1957, was appointed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by President George W. Bush and took office on July 12, 2002. He is a member of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules and the Committee on Model Criminal Jury Instructions within the Third Circuit, and he also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Following graduation from Cheltenham High School he received a B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce in 1961. In 1964 he received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

In January 1966 after clerking for Judge Joseph Sloane of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas and volunteering with the Defender Association Judge Baylson began serving as an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia under then District Attorney Arlen Spector. Judge Baylson became Chief of the D.A's Homicide Division in 1969. In January 1970 he joined the center city law firm Duane Morris and became a partner in 1974. While at Duane Morris he handled complex civil litigation matters and tried numerous cases, specializing in class actions, antitrust, and securities issues.

After leaving Duane Morris to serve as a United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from October 1988 through January 1993. Judge Baylson then resumed his law practice at Duane Morris and served as chair of the firms 140 lawyer trial department and as a member of the firms executive committee.

Judge Baylson was founder of and later counsel to Gaudenzia Inc., the largest non-profit provider of drug, alcohol, and mental rehabilitation services in Pennsylvania.

Judge Baylson is married to Ruth Batzer Baylson, M.D. and resides in the East Falls Neighborhood of Philadelphia.

Adele Boyd, 49
Athlete, Coach & Official
Inducted in 1996

After graduating from Cheltenham High School in 1949, Adele Boyd went on to distinguish herself as an outstanding athlete and coach in the sport of field hockey. In 1953 Boyd received her undergraduate degree from Ursinus; the following year she joined the faculty at Cheltenham as a physical education teacher and coach of the Lady Panthers' field hockey, basketball and lacrosse teams. She was a member of the Philadelphia Amateur Team from 1953 through 1967, and played on the U.S. National team from 1961 until 1967. In 1972, Boyd took over as the field hockey head coach at Ursinus, beginning a 17-year career that would include 16 winning seasons. She took the Lady Bears to three consecutive second-place finishes in the AIAW Tournament during the late 1970s. Her 1983 squad won the Eastern College Athletic Conference title. Boyd's career has earned her places in the United States Field Hockey Association (USFHA) Hall of Fame, the Ursinus College Hall of Fame for Athletes, and the Philadelphia Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. Boyd has served as national umpire, officer, and team selector for the USFHA. Currently, Ms. Boyd is Associate Professor of Exercise and Sport Science and Associate Director of Athletics at Ursinus College.

Michael Brecker
Award winning jazz artist
Inducted in 1996

A 1967 graduate of Cheltenham High School, Michael Brecker is a major figure in contemporary instrumental music, tenor saxophonist and composer. Brecker is a eight-time Grammy-winner, and the first to win "Best Jazz Instrumental Performance" and "Best Jazz Instrumental Solo" two years in a row. As a result of his stylistic and harmonic innovations, Brecker is among the most studied instrumentalists in music schools throughout the world today.

Most recently, Brecker has released his seventh solo album, Nearness of You: The Ballad Book, featuring a dream ensemble of fellow jazz giants: Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Charlie Haden and Jack DeJohnette. The album is produced by Pat Metheny, with legendary singer-songwriter James Taylor adding his voice to the peerless musical alchemy on two tracks.

Born into a musical household in 1949, Brecker's father played records by Dave Brubeck and Clifford Brown and took Michael and his older brother Randy to see Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, and many other jazz icons. While Randy took up trumpet, Michael launched his studies on clarinet and alto sax; moved by the genius of Coltrane, Brecker switched to tenor in high school. After studying, as did his brother, at the University of Indiana, he made the mandatory move to New York City, landing work with several bands before co-founding the pioneering jazz-rock group Dreams in 1970. In 1973, Brecker joined his brother in the frontline of pianist/composer Horace Silver's quintet. The following year, the siblings branched off to form the Brecker Brothers, one of the most innovative and successful jazz-funk fusion bands of the decade. Michael and Randy also operated the popular downtown Manhattan jazz club Seventh Avenue South. Jam sessions with keyboardist/vibes player Mike Maineiri, bassist Eddie Gomez, and drummer Steve Gadd led to the 1979 formation of Steps Ahead. With Peter Erskine later replacing Gadd, the all-star quartet recorded seven albums and ascended to worldwide fame during the 1980s.

Brecker has recorded and performed with a virtual Who's Who of jazz and pop giants in the 70s and 80s, including Chet Baker, George Benson, Dave Brubeck, Don Cherry, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Quincy Jones, Charles Mingus, Joni Mitchell, Jaco Pastorius, Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, Steely Dan, Tony Williams, and Frank Zappa, and cut his firstrecord as a leader in 1987.

That solo debut, Michael Brecker, was voted Jazz Album of the Year in both Down Beat and Jazziz magazines. Its follow-up, Don't Try This At Home, garnered Brecker his first GRAMMY. After investigating new rhythmic concepts on 1990's Now You See It ... Now You Don't, and subsequently touring for a year and a half with Paul Simon, Brecker reunited with Randy for 1992's Return of the Brecker Brothers. Out of the Loop (1994) and Tales From the Hudson (1997) put additional GRAMMYS on the saxophonist's shelf, leading to Brecker being named "Best Soloist of the Year" by JazzLife and "Jazz Man of the Year" by Swing Journal. He also bolstered his star-studded resume with appearances on Herbie Hancock's The New Standard (Verve) and McCoy Tyner's Infinity (Impulse!), followed by extensive touring with each piano titan. In 1997, Michael and Randy Brecker were honored with bronze plaques on the Avenue of the Arts' Walk of Fame by the Philadelphia Music Alliance.

His third solo album in the last four years, following 1998's Two Blocks From the Edge and 1999's Time Is of the Essence (featuring Metheny, organist Larry Goldings, and drummers Elvin Jones, Jeff "Tain" Watts and Bill Stewart), Nearness of You finds Brecker reunited with the jazz innovators who appeared on his first two dates as a leader. Metheny, DeJohnette, and Haden played on Michael Brecker, and DeJohnette, Haden, and Hancock provided the rhythm section on Don't Try This At Home. But this was the first time they all played together as a unit for an entire album. Nearness of You was produced by Metheny, marking the first time the guitarist has stepped into that role for any major jazz artist other than himself and his own group.

Brecker's accomplishments assure that his time will forever be intertwined with the history of music. Jazziz magazine said it best: "You¹ll find no better example of stylistic evolution than Michael Brecker, inarguably the most influential tenor stylist of the last 25 years."

Randy Brecker
Award Winning Jazz Artist
Inducted in 1996

Cheltenham High School's Class of 1963 voted its own Randy Brecker "best all-around instrumentalist." After three years at Indiana University and one at New York University, Brecker began his prolific and innovative musical career when he co-founded Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Brecker left the group after a year to join the Horace Silver Quintet. The Quintet's Score album was Brecker's first recording as a band leader, and featured his 19-year-old brother Michael on tenor sax. After Horace Silver, Brecker co-lead the pioneering jazz/rock groups that would make him known as one of the architects of fusion: Dreams and the Brecker Brothers. Dreams, the more short-lived of the two, recorded two adventurous and wildly acclaimed albums before disbanding in 1971. The Brecker Brothers, however, lasted for six years, making six albums and receiving seven Grammy nominations for their innovative blend of jazz, electrified rock, and funk. Michael's trumpet performances have graced albums by James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Frank Zappa. Ten years after going separate ways, the Brecker Brothers reunited to produce a triple-Grammy nominated recording, The Return of the Brecker Brothers. In the fall of 1994, the Brecker Brothers released the double-Grammy winning Out of the Loop. More recently, Randy Brecker earned a Grammy in the Contemporary Jazz Performance category for "Into the Sun". In 1997, Randy and Michael Brecker were honored with bronze plaques on the Avenue of the Arts' Walk of Fame by the Philadelphia Music Alliance.

     Michael S. Brown, M.D.
     1985 Nobel Prize in Medicine
     Inducted in 1987

Winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries about cholesterol that could help prevent heart attacks and strokes, Dr. Brown is a molecular geneticist at the University of Texas Health Center in Dallas.

A life-long fascination with science began with an amateur radio operating license obtained at the age of 13, while a student at Thomas Williams Junior High School in Wyncote. At T.W. and then at Cheltenham High, this interest in science was fostered along with a growing interest in writing -- Dr. Brown's two major areas of interest.

Dr. Brown graduated from the University of Pennsylvania undergraduate school and School of Medicine. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He spent several years at the National Institutes of Health, first as a Clinical Associate in Gastroenterology and Hereditary Diseases and then in the Laboratory of Biochemistry, where he learned the techniques of enzymology and the fundamental principles of metabolic regulation.

In 1971 Dr. Brown joined the Division of Gastroenterology in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. Here his research work continued with his friend and associate, Dr. Joseph L. Goldstein. In 1974 Brown was promoted to Associate Professor and to Professor in 1976. In 1977 he was appointed Paul J. Thomas Professor of Medicine and Genetics and Director of the Center for Genetic Diseases. In 1985 Dr. Brown was named Regental Professor of the University of Texas.

Dr. Brown is a member of numerous professional organizations, and has received many awards and authored many professional publications. He has served on several review and editorial boards for various scientific publications.

Dr. Brown and his wife, the former Alice Lapin, have two daughters, Sara and Elizabeth. In his spare time, Dr. Brown is an avid windsurfer.

       Dr. Sherwood Chang
        Space Scientist & Natural Historian
       Inducted in 1987

Dr. Chang is currently Chief of the Planetary Biology Branch at NASA, Ames Research Center, California. He also serves as Research Scientist, Technical Coordinator for Chemical Evolution Research, Extra-Terrestrial Research Division, NASA-Ames. Dr. Chang received his A.B. in Chemistry from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin. He was Co-lnvestigator and then Principal Investigator of the Apollo Lunar Science Program. He has "sought evidence of microbes or their molecular building blocks in the oldest rocks on Earth, in soils of the Moon and Mars, and in bits and pieces of comets and meteorites." Dr. Chang has been deeply involved within NASA in establishing a unique interdisciplinary research program which addresses such questions as: How did development of the solar system make possible the origin of life on Earth? What were the first lifeforms like? Is there extinct life on Mars? Where else in the galaxy is there intelligent life?

Dr. Chang is a member of numerous professional organizations including the American Chemical Society; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Meteoritical Society, Leonard Medal Committee; and is Vice-President of the International Society of the Study of the Origin of Life. He is also a member of many technical committees and has been the recipient of several honors and awards including the Harvard Club Scholarship; NASA Special Achievement Award, 1973; NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, 1976; NASA Special Achievement Award, 1981. He is the author or co-author of a long list of professional articles.

Dr. Chang considers a 1979 trip to China with his parents, brother and one of his two daughters his most memorable journey. There he became acquainted with three generations of relatives and reconnected with ten generations of family history. Chang and his wife, Betty Jo, live on ninety mountainside acres in Northern California -- a property they have dubbed "Foolish Farm." Chang enjoys a new role as "accompanying spouse", traveling with his wife, who is an international expert in the data communications industry.

Laurie Colwin
Author and Columnist
Inducted in 1999

Laurie Colwin was a popular author of novels and short stories. Before her untimely death in October 1992, Colwin garnered a large following with her sparkling tales of love and family in the upper middle class.

Colwin served as editor of Cheltenham's literary magazine The Panther before graduating in 1962. She attended Bard College, the Sorbonne in Paris, the New School for Social Research, and Columbia University. Beginning in 1965, Colwin worked for a number of years in publishing. Her first employment in the field was with Sanford Greenberger International Publishers, a firm which she would later remember with great affection. She went on to serve on the editorial staffs of many leading publishers, including Putnam, Pantheon Books, Viking Press, and E.P. Dutton. During this period she edited and translated works of Isaac Bashevis Singer, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Colwin sold her first short story to The New Yorker in 1969. She would later see her stories published in such magazines as Cosmopolitan, Playboy, Redbook, Mademoiselle, and Harper's. Some of the finest of these early short stories were collected in Passion and Affect (1974). Her first novel, Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object, was published in 1975.

In 1977, Colwin ended her career in publishing to devote herself entirely to writing. She soon produced her second novel, Happy All the Time (1978) which was well received by critics and readers alike. John Romano wrote in the New York Times Book Review, "her book has the elegance called Mozartian -- pretty themes, memorable melodies."

The publication of the short story collection The Lone Pilgrim (1981) and the novel Family Happiness (1982) brought Colwin national acclaim. Critics praised her clear prose and sparkling wit. Readers fell in love with her wonderful, lifelike characters: witty men and women of the upper middle class who are perpetually falling in and out of love in the most entertaining ways.

She continued her successful career with her short story collection Another Marvelous Thing (1986) and her fourth novel, Goodbye Without Leaving (1990). She was honored with the prestigious O Henry Award for short fiction, and she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1987.

Food held an important place in Colwin's life and career. A talented chef, Colwin cooked for protesters during the 1968 campus uprisings at Columbia University and later volunteered as a cook at homeless shelters in New York. Her fiction often explored the fascinating connections between people, food, and love. For many years she was a food columnist for Gourmet magazine, publishing many of her columns and essays in the 1988 book Home Cooking.

In October 1992, Colwin died in her home in Manhattan at the age of 48, survived by her husband Juris Jurjevics and her daughter Rosa. Colwin was honored the following February with a memorial tribute in New York City. Personal memories and readings from her work were shared by friends and colleagues including Anna Quindlen, Blair Brown, Tony Randall and C.H.S. classmate Willard Spiegelman, ‘62. Her last two books were published posthumously in 1993. More Home Cooking was a second book of food essays, and A Big Storm Knocked It Over her final novel.

Colwin has been compared to authors as diverse as John Updike, Danielle Steele, and Jane Austen. "Colwin writes with extraordinary authority in a cool, slangy, hard-edged style that delights the mind even as it touches the heart," wrote Jane Clapperton in Cosmopolitan. One reviewer praised "her elegant, delicately colored prose" while Newsweek's Walter Clemons remarked of Happy All the Time that the "successful depiction of happiness is rare enough to qualify Colwin's novel as daring experimental fiction." In a New York Times column published soon after Colwin's death, Anna Quindlen wrote, "Laurie Colwin was a splendid writer, her characters wrought with perfect pitch, her world view sharp and telling but neither dark nor mean."

Colwin said of herself: "I write first drafts by hand with a Mont Blanc pen with real ink...I'm real old-fashioned." In an age when many serious writers concern themselves with despair and alienation, Laurie Colwin won the hearts of millions with her engaging and honest explorations of happiness, family, and love.

      Denis A. Cortese, M.D.
       Chair of the Board of Governors, Mayo Clinic
      Inducted in 2002

Dr. Denis Cortese, Class of 1962, is Chair of the Board Of Governors at Mayo Clinic and Chair of the Board of Directors at St. Luke's Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. He is a member of the Mayo Foundation Board of Trustees.

Effective February 2003, Dr. Cortese will be the President/CEO of Mayo Foundation in Rochester, Minnesota.

Dr. Cortese earned his medical degree from Temple University in Philadelphia and completed his residency and fellowship training at Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota. From 1974-1976, he was a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps in Beaufort, South Carolina. He joined the staff of Mayo Clinic in Rochester in 1976 as a specialist in pulmonary medicine. Dr. Cortese was a member of the Board of Governors there before moving to Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville in 1993.

Dr. Cortese is a director and former president of the International Photodynamic Association and has been involved in the bronchoscopic detection, localization, and early treatment of early stage lung cancer, as well as the bronchoscopic treatment of late stage lung cancer obstructing the main airways.

Dr. Cortese is a Professor of Medicine at Mayo Medical School and served as a director of the Pulmonary Disease Subspecialty Training Program in the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine from 1979-1987.

He and his wife, Donna, have been married 36 years. They have two daughters, Case and Holly, and their first grandchild in 2002.

      Nancy Guest Cummings, M.D.
       Physician
      Inducted in 1984

Dr. Cummings has the distinction of having been the first female rotating intern at Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia; the first female resident in Internal Medicine at Hospital of the University of Pennsyvania; the first woman Renal Fellow, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston; and the first woman Associate Director, National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases of the National Institutes of Health. She is a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners. Her current positions include Associate Director for Kidney, Urologic and Hematologic Diseases, NIADDK at the NIH; consultant in Nephrology/Medicine, Clinical Center, NIH; Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington.

Cummings counts among her several fellowships and honors the 1981 National Kidney Foundation Distinguished Service Award and the November 1975 Robert Abbe Lectureship at Philadelphia's College of Physicians. She is a member of numerous professional societies and has served on various committees for them. Over thirty medical articles have been authored or co-authored by Dr. Cummings and she is considered an international expert in kidney disease research.

Cummings is active in her church and also serves as a Lay Reader and Chalice Bearer at the "National Cathedral" in Washington. Many radio, television and community programs have invited her to be their guest speaker. She is married, the mother of three children (oldest son, Yale, 1983; middle son, Yale, 1985; daughter, Princeton, 1987). Dr. Cummings also enjoys cooking, reading, cultural pursuits and various forms of needlework. She is the creator of a prize-winning needlepoint rug.

     Winnifred Berg Cutler
        Biologist & Author
        Inducted in 1996

Since graduating from Cheltenham High School in 1962, Dr. Winnifred Berg Cutler has strived to educate women and their doctors on female health issues. After graduating from Ursinus College, Dr. Cutler earned her Ph.D. in biology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979 and did her postdoctoral work in behavioral endocrinology at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Menopause Study. The author of six books on women's health, Dr. Cutler co-founded the University of Pennsylvania Women's Wellness Program in 1985, and served as its first Scientific Director. Dr. Cutler founded the Athena Institute for Women's Wellness, the first program of its kind to open in the Delaware Valley. Dr. Cutler has published over 30 scientific papers in medical journals and holds several patents. She has spoken to medical societies, business groups, and television and radio audiences all over the world on issues concerning women's health. Dr. Cutler is a member of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology and the International Academy of Sex Research.

       Peter S. Eagleson, ScD
        Scientist & Educator
        "The Father of Scientific Hydrology"
        Inducted in 1999

Peter Eagleson, Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been called the father of scientific hydrology. The field of hydrology, once considered merely an engineering discipline with only local applications, has been established by Eagleson's work as a rigorous science of global scope and significance. His influential work has drawn upon such varied scientific disciplines as fluid dynamics, climatology, geology, ecology, chemistry, and statistics.

The day after his graduation from Cheltenham in 1945, Eagleson began his studies at Lehigh University. Participating in the wartime accelerated program, Eagleson received his B.S. in civil engineering in February 1949. Immediately following his graduation, Eagleson, an Advanced ROTC cadet at Lehigh, was called for active duty in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in which he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in a construction battalion in Okinawa. Three months after his discharge, the Korean War began.

Following a brief stint working with a consulting engineer in Glenside, PA, Eagleson decided to continue his education. Says Eagleson, "I knew that the theory rather than the practice of engineering was what interested me." Eagleson returned to Lehigh University for his graduate studies to discover that the only available assistant teaching position was in the area of civil engineering known as hydraulics (the study of the flow of liquids through pipes and channels). Up to this point, Eagleson's student status had kept him from active duty in the Korean War. By the time he completed his Master of Science, the choice was, he says,"either go fight in Korea or go on for a Ph.D." Fortunately for the world of science, Eagleson continued his studies at the new Hydrodynamics Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Eagleson completed his doctorate in 1956, studying the mechanics of fluid flow and its application to irrigation systems and harbors.

It was in the 1960's that Eagleson began the work that would bring him renown. At that time, hydrology was thought of as an engineering discipline, a method of understanding the behavior of water in a specific region over a short period of time. Eagleson broke new ground by treating hydrology as a rigorous science which studying the interrelation of the whole world's water usage. He incorporated many of his new ideas into his textbook Dynamic Hydrology (1970), considered one of the great works on the subject to this day.

Eagleson has held such important positions as:

Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, 1984-1993
Head, Department of Civil Engineering, MIT, 1970-1975
President, American Geophysical Union, 1986-1988
He has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the 1991 International Hydrology Prize and the 1992 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award, recognizing extraordinary professional accomplishments and service to MIT. In 1997 Eagleson was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize, an international award honoring outstanding contributions in the field of water conservation. The $150,000 Water Prize was presented to Eagleson by King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden.

Says Eagleson of his work: "To me these problems have an intrinsic beauty which transcends their enormous importance to the provision of society's water. I feel privileged to have been paid to work on their solution. Since I couldn't hit a curve ball, there is nothing I would rather have done with my life."

Since his retirement from teaching in 1993, Eagleson has worked to integrate hydrology with Darwinian ecology. He is married to Beverly Grossman, ‘45 and has three children from a previous marriage.

    William Eagleson, Jr.
       Chairman of the Board
       Girard Bank of Philadelphia
       Inducted in 1981

A 1943 CHS graduate, Eagleson earned a B.S. degree with honors from Lehigh University in 1949. In 1951 he received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. His affiliation with Girard Bank started in 1951, after a stint with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. He worked in the investment division of the trust department at the bank, and was appointed an officer in 1955. In 1961 he was appointed vice-president with responsibility for the bank's investment and loan policies. He became head of the banking department in 1966, executive vice-president in 1967, director in 1969, president in 1971, and chairman of the board and president in 1974.

He is a trustee and/or director of numerous other organizations, including, among others: General Accident, Fire and Life Assurance; Anchor Hocking Corporation; Pennwalt Corporation; Greater Philadelphia Partnership; Philadelphia Port Corporation, the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, Lehigh University and the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company. Eagleson serves as Chairman of the Private Industry Council of Philadelphia and Regional Director of the National Alliance of Business.

He, his wife and two children reside in Malvern, Pennsylvania. He is an avid boating and tennis enthusiast.

      Andrew Egendorf
       Attorney & Entrepreneur
       Inducted in 1993

After graduation from Cheltenham High School in 1963, Andrew Egendorf continued his education at MIT, where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in 1967. He entered Harvard Business School in 1967. In January, 1968, Egendorf and a friend wrote to famed consumer advocate Ralph Nader offering to work with him that summer if he would consider working with students. As a result, Nader established the student task forces which William Greider of the Washington Post later dubbed "Nader's Raiders". (Egendorf's group studied the Federal Trade Commission, and in March, 1969 presented its report to Congress.) Nader suggested that Egendorf enroll in Harvard Law School as a means of being better able to effect social changes, and in 1968 Egendorf was selected as the first entrant for Harvard's newly-created joint Law-Business program, from which he graduated in 1971 with honors. As a programming project for Professor Ralph Zani at HBS, in March, 1970 Egendorf wrote the first electronic spreadsheet program for the use of his classmates on the school's time-shared computer.

In 1967, while at MIT, Egendorf met Russell Noftsker, the General Manager of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and in 1980 with Noftsker and a group from the AI Lab, founded Symbolics, Inc., the company which manufactured and sold the first computer built specifically to run AI software. AI allows computers to emulate many aspects of human behavior including reasoning and decision making, and has become an integral part of computer technology today. On March 15, 1985, Symbolics was assigned "Symbolics.com" as the first ".com" domain on the Internet.

In 1977, Egendorf joined the law firm of Widett, Slater & Goldman, a major general-practice firm in downtown Boston. In 1983 he left his position as a senior partner to become General Counsel of Symbolics. Symbolics became a public company in 1984 and traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol SMBX.

In 1994, Egendorf became interested in patent law as applied to the emerging field of electronic commerce, and subsequently applied for numerous patents worldwide dealing with e-commerce, many of which have now issued. He registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2001, and now is President and CEO of Tradecraft Corporation, an intellectual property holding company based in the Boston area.

Egendorf lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts with his wife Linda, who is a nationally-recognized sculptor. Art Calendar magazine selected "Aftermath", a work by Linda Egendorf, for the cover of its October, 2001 issue, which was "Dedicated to those who lost their lives on 9/11".

Jack Angel Elias, M.D.
Physician and Professor of Medicine

Jack Angel Elias, class of 1969, is the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine, Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine and a Professor of Immunobiology at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Alias is also the Chief of the Beeson Medical Service and Physician-in-Chief at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Dr. Elias received his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973 and his M.D. from Penn in 1976. He followed residencies in Internal Medicine at Tufts New England Medical Center and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania with two fellowships at HUP. He held a number of different teaching positions at HUP culminating in his 1989 appointment as acting Acting Chief of the Pulmonary section of the Department of Internal Medicine. In 1990 he joined Yale as a Professor of Medicine and and Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. In 2006 he became chair of the Department of Internal Medicine and he oversaw 351 full-time faculty members, 600 volunteer Faculty and more than 400 residents and fellows and managed an operating budget of more than $140 Million.

A noted specialist on Asthma, lung diseases, and lung injury, Dr. Elias was the director of the Yale based Specialized Center of Research for Asthma, one of seven in the country that were selected by the National Institute of Health to conduct a five year study into the causes of the disease. His team received an $8.6 million grant for that project. Dr Alias has also been the principle investigator on more than 25 other research projects funded by major grants. He holds two patents and has several others pending.

Dr. Elias and his wife, Sandra (Gross) CHS class of 1971, reside in Connecticut and have one daughter, Lauren.

         JoAnne A. Epps
              Former Assistant U.S. Attorney
            Professor of Law and Associate Dean,
         Temple University School of Law
   Inducted in 1999

Attending Cheltenham High School in the late 1960's, JoAnne Epps was elected Homecoming Queen and Vice-President of the school by her fellow students. She graduated from Cheltenham in 1969 and attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut as a member of the school's first co-ed class. Receiving her B.A. from Trinity in 1973, Epps went on to study at the Yale University School of Law. She received her J.D. in 1976.

Frequently encountering the stereotype that a black lawyer's place was in poverty law or community law, Epps nonetheless pursued her ambition to become a United States Attorney. She sought to gain experience as a prosecutor, and since Philadelphia did not furnish her with the best opportunities, she accepted an offer in California. In 1976, Epps became the Deputy City Attorney for Los Angeles, and was soon made supervisor of the trials branch of the City Attorney's office. She was also a coordinator and lecturer in the office's training program, marking the beginning of an involvement in law education that has lasted until the present day.

In 1980, Epps became an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Working in the criminal division, Epps distinguished herself as a skilled prosecutor. She concentrated on the prosecution of arson and other categories of fraud, and her work was recognized by federal law-enforcement agencies such as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Epps joined the faculty of the Temple University School of Law in 1985. Only three years later, she was honored with the George P. Williams III Memorial Award. She was the first woman to receive the award, presented annually to a member of the Temple faculty chosen by the graduating class for outstanding excellence in teaching. Epps has served as the Law School's Associate Dean for Academic Affairs since 1989. In 1997, Epps was honored by being made I. Herman Stern Professor of Law, an honorary three-year professorship. She has taught and continues to teach such courses as Criminal Law, Evidence, Criminal Procedure, Interviewing, Counseling & Negotiation, and Trial Advocacy.

Epps has served as Temple University's Faculty Representative to the NCAA since 1994, and as the Atlantic 10 Conference's NCAA Faculty Representative since 1995. She is also the President of the Board of Directors of the Defender Association of Philadelphia and Vice Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Gender Task Force. Since 1998 she has served as the Section of Litigation Division Director for the American Bar Association.

As part of her continuing commitment to law education, Epps embarks this month for the People's Republic of China. Temple Law School is collaborating with the China University of Political Science and Law, China's largest center for legal education and legal research, in a program educating Chinese attorneys in matters of American law. The joint program, which leads to an LL.M. degree, is the only one of its kind any place in the world, and is the first foreign law degree program approved in China.

Epps describes herself as "devoted, maybe a little too much, to work". In addition to traveling, reading and bicycling, she includes her work as a mentor among her greatest satisfactions. Working with students and young lawyers inside and outside Temple Law School, Epps seeks to "provide a resource for young people entering the profession which I never had".

For eleven years Epps has been married to L. Harrison Jay, the director of community development for the Temple University Health System.

        David Eskin, MD
             Chief of Staff, Abington Memorial Hospital
          Inducted in 2002

David J. Eskin M.D., a graduate of Cheltenham High School in 1959, is currently Chief of Staff of Abington Memorial Hospital. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dickinson College in 1963 and he continued his studies at the University of Pennsylvania where he received his medical degree in 1967.

Dr. Eskin has dedicated his life to medicine. From 1968 to1970, he was a captain in the Medical Corps of the United States Air Force. Upon his return from service, Dr. Eskin became a resident/chief resident in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He then served a fellowship in Cardiology at HUP which he completed in 1974. Dr. Eskin has been a cardiologist at Abington Memorial Hospital since 1974.

Dr. Eskin has also spent time teaching medicine. From 1972-1974, Dr. Eskin was an instructor in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine. At the completion of his term, he was promoted to Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, where he served until 1983. Since 1983, Dr. Eskin has been an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine in the field of cardiology. He has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Medical School Alumni Association at Penn since 1990.

Not only has Dr. Eskin participated in numerous lectures by invitation, but, he is also a member of several professional and scientific societies, including: American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, American College of Physicians, American Medical Association, American Heart Association, Pennsylvania Medical Society, Montgomery County Medical Society, and the American College of Physicians.

Appointed Chief of Staff in 1986, Dr. Eskin has helped guide Abington Memorial Hospital in its transformation from a community teaching hospital to a regional medical center. Abington has become the largest obstetrical hospital in eastern Pennsylvania. He helped to plan the implementation of a new open heart surgery program at Abington in 1996, and was instrumental in establishing the hospital as the only accredited trauma center in Montgomery County.

Dr. Eskin happily resides in Rydal, PA with his wife Eileen (nee Finzimer) of 38 years. Eileen is a graduate of Drexel University and a former art teacher for the Philadelphia School System. They have three children: Mark, an attorney and financial consultant with Janney Montgomery Scott; Beth, a defense attorney with Blank, Rome, Comisky, McCauley; and Jill, a circulation analyst with USA Today in Virginia. All are married and the Eskins have four wonderful grandchildren.

      James Farquhar
       Civic Leader & Philanthropist
       Inducted in 1996

James Farquhar graduated from Cheltenham High School in 1936, and then received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1939. His first philanthropic action was in the founding of the Ft. Lauderdale Symphony, which has now grown into the Florida Philharmonic Society and Museum of Art. He is one of the founders of Nova University, and was the first Chairman of the Board of Trustees. In 1974, he was appointed Chairman of the State Board of Independent Colleges and Universities by the governor of Florida. His philanthropic work has benefited the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland, Washington and Lee University, Jacksonville University, the University of Florida, and Broward Community College. Mr. Farquhar passed away on March 27, 1997, survived by his wife Nan Wagner Farquhar, also a Cheltenham graduate.

      Glenn A. Fine
          Rhodes Scholar
             Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice
         Inducted in 2002

After graduating from Cheltenham High School in 1974, Glenn Fine attended Harvard College where he earned his B.A. and graduated magna cum laude. As captain of Harvard's basketball team, he held the Ivy League record for assists. He was drafted by the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA, but he turned down the opportunity to try out for the NBA to instead accept a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. Mr. Fine graduated from Pembroke College, Oxford University in 1981 with an A.B./M.A. with first class honors in politics, philosophy and economics. In 1985, he was graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude with his Juris Doctor degree.

Mr. Fine has worked for the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) since January of 1995. Initially, he was Special Counsel to the Inspector General. In 1996, he became the Director of the OIG's Special Investigations and Review Unit. On December 15, 2000, Mr. Fine was confirmed by the Senate as the Inspector General of the Department of Justice. The DOJ Inspector General, promotes economy, efficiency and effectiveness within the Department. The Inspector General also enforces criminal and civil laws as well as regulations and ethical standards within DOJ by investigating individuals and organizations who allegedly are involved in financial, contractual or criminal misconduct in DOJ programs and operations.

Before assuming the position as Inspector General, Mr. Fine served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Washington, D.C., United States Attorney's Office from 1986-89. In that capacity, he prosecuted more than 35 criminal jury trials, handled numerous grand jury investigations and argued cases in the District of Columbia and U.S. Courts of Appeals. After leaving that position he joined the law firm of Bredhoff and Kaiser (1989-1995) where he specialized in labor and employment law.

Glenn Fine lives in suburban Maryland with his wife, Beth Heifetz and their two children Julia, 6, and Michael, 5.

       Wilmot E. Fleming
          State Senator
          Inducted in 1987

Former State Senator Wilmot E. Fleming served the 12th District of Montgomery-Bucks County for fourteen years. Initially elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1962, he would eventually be elected to the Pennsylvania Senate in 1964, where he served until his untimely death in 1978.

Senator Fleming was a managing partner in the Wilmot Fleming Engineering Company and a trustee of Beaver College. He was a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His other activities included membership in the Jenkintown Rotary Club, the Jenkintown Board of School Directors (of which he was president), Board of Trustees of Abington Memorial Hospital, Board of Trustees of Grace Presbyterian Church, Montgomery Regional Board of the former Industrial Valley Bank and Trust Company.

Senator Fleming's special area of interest was education and, more specifically, maintaining local control of schools. He was a leader in the fight against mandatory school mergers in Harrisburg.

The Times Chronicle aptly described Senator Fleming in the following words:

He was a rare man in public life, practically devoid of ego. He did not expect to be treated as a VIP and did not want it, and he left the petty game of 'perks of power' to those who view public office as an opportunity for self-advancement rather than public service...[he was] a full time senator, completely accessible to press and public, and rarely turned down an invitation to meet with constituents, whatever the circumstances...No politician could do more to honor the memory of Wilmot E. Fleming than to try to be like him.

         Jon D. Fox
            U.S. Congressman
            Inducted in 1996

A committed public servant, Congressman Jon D. Fox has dedicated nearly fifteen years to serving Montgomery County, PA. After graduating from Cheltenham High School in 1965, Fox earned his bachelor's degree in Public Service from Pennsylvania State University in 1969. Fox received his Juris Doctor from the Delaware Law School (now Widener University School of Law) while working for the United States General Services Administration in Washington, D.C. In his first elected post as Assistant District Attorney in Montgomery County, Fox aggressively prosecuted violent criminals and drug offenders from 1976 to 1980. In 1984, Fox was sent to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives by the 153rd Legislative District. He also was a member of the influential House Appropriations and Education Committees. In 1991, Fox was elected to the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners. In his capacity as Vice Chairman, he led the fight for a decrease in property taxes after restructuring the county government to run more efficiently. Originally elected by Pennsylvania's 13th District in 1994 and re-elected in 1996, Fox served on the Banking and Financial Services Committee, the Veterans Affairs Committee, and the Government Reform and Oversight Committee.

Jon Fox passed due to complications from cancer on February 11, 2017.

Saly A. Glassman
Financial Advisor

Saly Glassman, class of 1976, is one of the nation's best known and most well respected financial advisors. Ms. Glassman joined Merrill Lynch & Company in 1980 following her graduation from Cornell University. During her nearly 30 year career her Blue Bell based practice has grown to include more than $1.5 Billion in assets under management. She reached a pinnacle of her profession in 2008 when Barron's named her as the top female financial advisor in the United States. She had ranked second in 2007.

Ms. Glassman, a senior vice president for Merrill Lynch, serves corporate and individual investors with comprehensive financial solutions, including
concentrated stock management, assets management, estate planning and
philanthropy. But the financial world is not the only one in which she has distinguished herself.

At Kindle Hill Farm, her 128 acre property in Gwynedd Valley, PA, she boards
dozens of horses including many of her own. A rider since age six she competes in show jumping dressage and fox hunts. In show-jumping competes at the high amateur level against competitors half her age. She has won numerous championships and amateur grand prix.

After years of training horses Ms. Glassman began training people in 2004, when she founded Kindle Hill LLC which operates Kindle Hill Training Center at her farm. Her specialty is spinning and she also provides dietary and supplement advice.

Ms. Glassman also serves as a Director of the Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association, a charitable organization that focuses on environmental conservation. She and her husband, Allan Syphers, have two daughters Janice and Lauren.

Josh Goldsmith
Producer, Screen and TV

Josh Goldsmith, class of 1968, was involved in just about every fall drama, spring musical, ensemble show choir and talent show there was during his four years at Cheltenham. So it perhaps little surprise that unlike Reggie Jackson Josh isn't in the Alumni Hall of Fame for his baseball skills. When he was 10 years old Josh did in fact play first base for the Old York Road Little League, but his partners knew he was destined for something else when he kept calling his uniform his “costume.”

While attending the University of Pennsylvania Josh started to write and direct theatrical productions after realizing he could neither act nor sing at even a college level of competence. Upon graduation from Penn in 1962 Josh moved to New York City and got his first job in entertainment in the mail-room of storied talent agency International Creative Management. The following year Josh moved to Los Angeles to attend film school at the University of Souther California from which he graduated in 1995. While at USC he and his wife and creative partner, Cathy Yupsa, began writing together.

Josh and Cathy had blockbuster success with their first produced screenplay, “What Women Want.” The 2000 film starred Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt and earned nearly $400 million worldwide. They also penned the screenplay for the 2004 romantic comedy “13 going on 30” in which Josh relived his own Seventh grade experiences at at Elkins Park Middle School circa 1983 by having star Jennifer Garner lead the famous Michael Jackson “Thriller” dance.

Josh has worked extensively in television as well. With Cathy he served as lead writer and executive producer on the long running hit CBS series “The King of Queens” starring Kevin James. Josh and Cathy also created and executive produced the FOX comedy “Til Death” which is set in Cheltenham and stars Brad Garrett. Josh directed several episodes of the series. Other TV writing credits include the sitcoms “Big Day” and “Pearl” starring Rhea Perlman. Josh and Cathy also composed the theme song for “The King of Queens” which won four BMI TV music awards.

Josh and Cathy have been married since 2002 and have two children.

Robert Greenstein
Director, Center on Budget & Policy in D.C.

Robert Greenstein, class of 1963, is the founder and Executive Director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Established in 1981, the center is a Washington, DC think tank that focuses on federal and state fiscal policy and public programs that affect low and moderate income families and individuals. Mr. Greenstein is considered an expert on the federal budget and a range of domestic policy issues including low income assistance programs, various aspects of tax policy, and Social Security.

Mr. Greenstein has written extensively on these issues, appeared on national television news and public affairs programs, and is frequently asked to testify on Capitol Hill. His views and ideas on fiscal issues and domestic policy are sought by federal policymakers and journalists. A 2007 Washington Post profile on the center observed, “For the past 25 years... Greenstein & Co. have been there for every hearing, every amendment, and every budget reconciliation ensuring the interests of the poor and working class are considered.”

In 2008 Mr. Greenstein received both the Heinz Award for Public Policy in recognition for his work to “improve the economic outlook of many of America's poorer citizens,” and the John W. Gardner Award from Independent Sector for playing “a defining role in how people think about critical budget and tax policies.” In 1996 Mr. Greenstein was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and was cited by the MacArthur foundation for making “the center a model for a non-partisan research and policy organization.” He also has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Prior to founding the center, Mr. Greenstein was the Administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture under President Carter where he directed the agency that operates the federal food assistance programs with a staff of 2,500 and a budget of $15 billion. In 1994 President Clinton appointed him to serve on the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform.

Greenstein attended Harvard College, where he graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is married to Elissa Parker.

     Werner Gundersheimer
      Director, Folger Shakespeare Library
      Inducted in 1987

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C., of which Dr. Gundersheimer is director, is one of the principal research centers in the world for the study of 16th and 17th century Western Civilization. It is especially rich in materials relating to English Renaissance drama, literature and history. Dr Gundersheimer's major field is Europe: 1300-1600, with special emphasis on Italian and French intellectual, social and urban history.

Dr. Gundersheimer is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard University. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, Swarthmore College and Tel Aviv University and presently lectures at several universities and colleges. He is the author of several books, articles and reviews pertaining to his areas of interest. He has received various honors, awards, fellowships and grants including the Star of Italian Solidarity (Cavaliere della Stella Solidarieta Italiana) conferred by the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Italy, 1974. He is listed in Who's Who in America and the Directory of American Scholars.

Gundersheimer's other activities include:

- Board Member, Rosenbach Museum and Library
- Council of the Renaissance Society of America
- Executive Council, American Jewish Historical Society
- Board of Trustees, British Institute of America
- Board of Trustees, The Medici Foundation.

Dr. Gundersheimer is a consultant to various professional presses, journals, the Educational Testing Service and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a member of various professional organizations and has addressed or chaired numerous conferences. He is married to the former Karen Rosenwald, an illustrator and writer of children's books, and has two sons.

     Dr. Doris Reitinger Helms
       Biologist & Educator
       Inducted in 1987

Dr. Helms graduated from Cheltenham High School in 1963, having become the Girl Finalist in the Montgomery County Science Fair and a competitor at the national level. Her interest in science took her to Bucknell University where she received her B.S. in biology in 1967. She returned to Cheltenham for one semester to teach biology, before continuing her education and earning a Ph.D. in Zoology at the University of Georgia in 1973. It was at this time that Dr. Helms began her long association with Clemson University in South Carolina. During her years as a Professor of Biology and head of the Biology Program, the enrollment increased from 400 to 1500 students. Although promoted to Associate Dean of Instruction in 1988, she still teaches biology.

Helms has used her knowledge not only to continue biological research, but also to develop realistic learning aids for science teachers at all levels. In 1982, in honor of her efforts in science education, the South Carolina Science Council developed the Doris Reitinger Helms Award for Exceptional Service to Science Education.

Dr. Helms is now a member of the College Board Science Advisory Committee and serves as a Chief Reader in Advanced Placement Biology for the Educational Testing Service. She now lives in Clemson, South Carolina with her husband and two children.

      Trina Schart Hyman
        Artist & Illustrator
        1985 Caldecott Medal Winner
        Inducted in 1987

Hyman is the winner of the 1985 Caldecott Medal for her St. George and the Dragon. The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually to the best illustrated book for children published in America.

Hyman attended the Philadelphia College of Art as an illustration major from 1956-59, the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts as a Graphic Arts major 1959-60, and the Swedish State School for Applied Art as an Advertising Design major. She married Harris Hyman (graduate of C.H.S. and M.I.T.; engineer, mathematician and alternate energy designer) in 1959; they were divorced in 1967. They have one daughter, Katrin, who is presently with the Peace Corps in Cameroon, Africa. Home has been many places to Hyman including Boston; Stockholm, Sweden; and New York City. For the past twenty years, she has lived in a 170-year old farmhouse in Lyme, New Hampshire, a small village on the Connecticut River bordering New Hampshire and Vermont.

Hyman has illustrated over 130 books for children and written four. Her King Stork received The Boston Globe/Horn Book Award in 1971. Little Red Riding Hood was a Caldecott Honor Book recipient and the winner of the Golden Kite Award in 1984. The Caldecott Medal winner St. George and the Dragon was also on the list of the best-illustrated books of the year in the New York Times Book Review.

In addition to her books for children, Hyman has produced and published illustrations for magazines and greeting cards and has designed porcelain figurines for The Franklin Mint. She was the Art Director of Cricket: The Magazine for Children for seven years (from 1971-77) and continues to work as staff artist for the magazine.

Hyman's work has been compared to the Brandywine School of illustrators, founded by Howard Pyle and N.C. Wyeth, and to the romantic illustrators of England at the turn of the century.

     Reginald "Reggie" Jackson
       Professional Baseball Player
       Inducted in 1981

Reginald Martinez Jackson, better known to sports fans around the world as "Mr. October" graduated from Cheltenham in 1964 as a four-sport varsity athlete. After graduation, Reggie received a scholarship to Arizona State where he played baseball and football. Selected by the Kansas City Athletics in the first round (second pick over-all) of the 1966 free-agent draft, Jackson began his professional baseball career.

Reggie played for the A's, both in Kansas City and in Oakland from 1967-1975 who traded him to Baltimore in April 1976. A free agent the following year, he signed a four-year contract with the New York Yankees. Reggie moved to the California Angels in 1982 where he played for five seasons. He finished his career with the team he started, playing the 1987 season with the Oakland A's. But this list of teams and cities only begins to tell the journey of Reggie Jackson that started in Cheltenham and would end in Cooperstown.

Reggie Jackson played for four American League franchises, and all of these but the Orioles, where he only played one season, won at least two division titles during his stay. His Oakland teams won three consecutive World Series championships, the only organization other than the Yankees to three-peat, and his Yankee teams earned back-to-back titles in 1977-78. When he was with the Angels, California twice came within a victory of its first pennant and World Series appearance. Reggie holds the major league career record for most league championship series played (11) most games (45) most at-bats (163) and the American League records for most RBIs (20) most hits (37) and most singles (24) in LCS play.

But it was in the World Series that "Mr. October" turned it on. Playing in five World Series and 27 games, Reggie batted an incredible .357 with 10 homeruns and 24 RBI's. He also holds the career slugging percentage record of .755, and holds or shares nine World Series records that contain the phrase "home run". In the 1977 Series against the Dodgers, the Yankees returned to New York with a 3-2 game lead. Reggie had homered in a losing cause on his last swing of Game 5 against Don Sutton. In Game 6 he faced Dodger pitcher Burt Hooton. Hooton walked him on four pitches in his first at-bat. Next time up Reggie hammered the first pitch for a homerun. The next time up the Dodgers brought in Elias Sosa to pitch. Jackson knocked his first pitch over the wall. The last time up, Reggie faced knuckleballer Charlie Hough. Hough's first pitch landed 15 rows up in the center-field bleachers. With those homers, three on three-first pitches, Jackson produced five runs and staked the Yankees to an 8-4 victory and their first World Series championship in 15 years. It was also the signature moment of a remarkable career.

Voted to the American League All-star team 14 times Reggie finished his fabled career in 1987. His stats include 1551 runs, 2584 hits, 463 doubles, 49 triples, 1702 RBI's and 563 home runs, 6th on the all-time list.

In his first year of eligibility, Reggie Jackson was named on 396 of the 423 ballots submitted by the Baseball Writers' Association of America and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. His 93.6 percent approval rating has been exceeded by only nine players in the history of the voting. On August 1, 1993 Reggie Jackson was the only player to be inducted into the Hall on that day. As his former teammate Willie Randolph said, "When you think about his career, especially in New York and the way he wanted to be on center stage, maybe it's appropriate that it worked out this way."

Today, Reggie lives in California where he is an executive with Upper Deck.

     Karen Folger Jacobs
      Author, Screenwriter, and Educator
      Inducted in 1999

Karen Folger Jacobs graduated from Cheltenham in 1958 and attended Antioch College where she received her B.A. in Philosophy and Mathematics. She received a M.A. in Counseling from Boston University and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of California, where she won the Chancellor's Dissertation Award. Jacobs held a fellowship in Women and Minorities at Howard University, and a second fellowship in clinical psychology at the University of California's Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute. A licensed marriage, family and child counselor, she has served on the Governor's Council on Wellness and Fitness' Advisory Board. In 1977 and 1978, she was a consultant to the Presidential Commission on Mental Health.

Although accomplished in the field of psychiatry, Karen Folger Jacobs has spent the majority of her professional life in an altogether different field. Jacobs has been and continues to be a writer of prolific output. Her work spans a wide range which includes young adult fiction, books on sports and health, and articles published in the New York Times, Essence, Mademoiselle, Image, and the Hollywood Reporter. She collaborated with celebrated photojournalist and fellow Hall of Fame member Mary Ellen Mark, ‘58 on the book Ward 81.

Her most impressive achievements have come from her work in the film industry. Jacobs has written and edited numerous screenplays, and has taught seminars on screenwriting in California, New York, and Texas. She has worked on films in Mexico and Italy, and once attended the Cannes Film Festival with an Italian film on which she was assistant director. She served as a juror in the 1998 Naples Film Festival in Italy, and been a consultant to Lucasfilm, Ltd. and the National Learning Center's Mediaworks program in Washington D.C. For over ten years, Jacobs has worked out of her office in the Fantasy Films building, home to the production company which produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, and The English Patient.

Jacobs has been an active athlete for most of her life. She is an avid mountain biker, teaches and practices yoga, and has many trophies for races across the Golden Gate Bridge and from Alcatraz to San Francisco. From 1980 to 1988 she was a member of the national underwater hockey team. Jacobs went with the team to the world championship in Holland where they finished second.

She wants us to know that, unlike most of her classmates, she has never married, had children, or owned a home or a credit card. In 1995 she had breast cancer and wrote about her journey through this increasingly common terrifying challenge. Today, Karen Folger Jacobs lives in Berkeley, California where she teaches film courses at the University of California at Berkeley. She values every day.

           Lewis Klein
            Television Pioneer & Educator
            Inducted in 1987

As the executive producer of American Bandstand with Dick Clark, Lewis Klein had Philadelphia's teen population on their feet and dancing in the early 1950's. He has since risen to become president of Gateway Communications Inc., a broadcast group which owns and operates stations such as WBNG-TV (Binghamton, New York), WTAJ-TV (Altoona, Pennsylvania), WLYH-TV (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), and WOWK-TV (Huntington, West Virginia).

Klein, a 1945 graduate of Cheltenham High School, attended the University of Pennsylvania where he majored in English. After completing college, Klein joined WFIL-TV (Channel Six), directing and producing a number of programs for the station until 1972. He was executive producer of American Bandstand and the award-winning Frontiers of Knowledge. Recognized as a television programmer whose experience spans the breadth and history of commercial television, Klein has served as president of The Television and Radio Advertising Club of Philadelphia (TRAC), the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE), and the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Broadcast Pioneers. Klein was also a faculty member of the University of Pennsylvania's English Department, and also taught at Temple University's School of Communication and Theater.

Klein has gained wide recognition is his field. In 1980, he received NATPE's "President's Award", and in 1983 the Broadcast Pioneers Chapter honored him as the "Broadcaster of the Year". In 1990 Klein received the same award from the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters.

Active in community as well, Klein served three years as chairman of the board of the Police Athletic League (PAL). In 1975, he received PAL's Community Service Award. He is currently on the board of trustees of the Einstein Medical Center, the Philadelphia Psychiatric Center, Moss Rehabilitation, and Rodeph Shalom and serves as President of the Corporate Alliance for Drug Education.

Klein lives with his wife in Rydal, PA. His children are graduates of CHS as are his mother, sister and brother.

         George Krauss
          Engineer & Educator
          Inducted in 1987

After graduating from Cheltenham High School in 1951 George Krauss attended Lehigh University, where he received a BS in Metallurgical Engineering in 1955. He went on to earn his M.S. and Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1962 he received a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship for research at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Eisenforschung in Dusseldorf, Germany. Dr. Krauss held a post as Professor of Metallurgy and Materials Science at Lehigh University until 1975. Dr. Krauss is currently a professor at the Colorado School of Mines, where he is the John Henry Moore Professor of Metallurgists and Materials Engineering. He also serves as Director of the Advanced Steel Processing & Products Research Center, a cooperative venture between university and industry which he helped to establish.

Krauss is listed in Who's Who in America, having become a Fellow of the American Society for Metals and winner of the 1990 Colorado School of Mines Presidential Award for Outstanding Educator. Dr. Krauss is a member of many professional organizations, has authored several books and over 170 technical papers. He has also lectured extensively throughout the world.

Dr. Krauss is married to Ruth Oeste and they have four sons, Matthew, Jonathan, Benjamin and Thomas.

       Maxine Winokur Kumin
        Poet and Novelist
        Winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
        Inducted in 1981

A 1942 CHS graduate, Kumin always wanted to be a free-lance writer. While at CHS she was editor of the school paper and contributed articles for the school's magazine. After her graduation from Radcliffe College, she pursued her ambition, turning out children's books, novels and volumes of poetry. She was recently named consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress, the fifth woman to fill this position since the post was created in 1936. She assumed her duties this month.

Kumin's awards and grants are numerous, including, among others:

- American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters Award, 1980
- Radcliffe College Alumnae Recognition award, 1978
- First prize, Borestone Mountain Award, Best Poems of 1976
- Poetry Magazine's annual Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize, 1972

She has held various positions, some of which include:

- Visiting Lecturer, Princeton University, spring 1979
- Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, 1979-80
- Bell Visiting Scholar, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, February 1978
- Adjunct Professor of Writing, Columbia University, spring 1975
- Hurst Professor of Literature, Brandeis University, fall 1975

Kumin's perennially popular poetic works include: The Retrieval System (1978) and House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate (1975). Her novels include The Designated Heir (1974), The Abduction (1971), and The Passions of Uxport (1968). Her book Up Country won the 1973 Pulitzer prize for poetry. The book is about nature and the creatures that inhabit the countryside around the farmhouse in Warner, N.H., where she now lives.

Kumin and her husband Victor have three children, two daughters and a son. She lives on a 200-acre farm along with two dalmatians, several horses, and some Scotch Highland heifers.

       Richard Levinson
        Emmy Award-Winning Writer and Producer
        Inducted in 1981

Both Link and Levinson are 1952 graduates. The award-winning writing team emerged in seventh grade at Elkins Park Jr. High School. They began by writing and producing home radio shows and having classmates do the acting. While at CHS they collaborated with several students to present the original musical Election Time. While attending the University of Pennsylvania they sold their first short story (written as seniors at CHS) to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and have been successfully creative through the years.

Both men served in the Army af ter graduation from the University of Pennsylvania in 1956. While in the Army, they collaborated by mail. They won their first Emmy in 1970 for outstanding achievement in drama for their film My Sweet Charlie. In 1972 the Link and Levinson team won ten Emmys for Columbo, which they created and produced.

Their awards are voluminous and impressive, including, among others: the Golden Gate Award for The Execution of Private Sloviak, the NAACP Image Award, two Golden Globe Awards for Columbo and That Certain Summer and the Motion Picture Council Award for The Gun. All together, Link and Levinson have written and produced over twenty motion pictures, more than one-hundred TV dramas and published over thirty short stories.

          William Link
             Emmy Award-Winning Writer and Producer
             Inducted in 1981

         Craig Littlepage
          College Administrator and Educator
              First African-American Athletic Director in Atlantic Coast Conference
          Inducted in 1996

Before graduating from Cheltenham High School in 1969, Craig Littlepage led Cheltenham's boys' basketball team to the Pennsylvania High School State Championship game. An All-American, All-Region, and All-State athlete in high school, Littlepage went on to play a key role for the University of Pennsylvania's basketball team. After graduating from Penn's Wharton School of Business and Finance with a B.S. in Economics in 1973, Littlepage held assistant coaching positions at Villanova, Yale, and the University of Virginia. In 1982, Littlepage returned to his alma mater as head basketball coach. After winning the Ivy League championship and advancing to the NCAA tournament in 1984-85, Littlepage moved on to Rutgers, and later returned to the University of Virginia.

Following two years as a Virginia assistant coach, Littlepage was promoted to Assistant Athletic Director for basketball administration, and from there to Associate Director of Athletic Programs. In December of 1994 Littlepage was named the university's interim Director of Athletics, a position he held until July 1995, when he was again elevated, this time to Senior Associate Director for Athletic Programs. In August of 2001, he was named Athletics Director at U.Va. Littlepage, who became the first African American in the Atlantic Coast Conference to hold the post, had served as interim director since June, 2001.

In addition to his athletic success on and off the court, Littlepage has contributed to community volunteer activities. He has served on the Boards of Directors of the Philadelphia Police Athletic League and the Charlottesville Ronald McDonald House.

       Richard S. Lowe
        Senior Judge
           Court of Common Pleas Montgomery County
       Inducted in 2002

Richard S. Lowe, Class of 1942, served in the U.S. Army infantry during World War II in the 84th Division. He arrived in Europe in June of 1944 where he fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He received three Battle Stars and a Bronze Star. He returned home in February of 1946 and enrolled in college. He graduated from Temple University in 1948 with a B.S. in political science. He then went on to graduate from Temple University Law School with an LL.B.

While maintaining a private law practice, Lowe served as district attorney of Montgomery County. In 1968 he took the oath of office of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County for a ten-year term. For the next ten years until 1986 he served as President Judge of Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas. During his tenure he lectured at various conferences including the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada; Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges; and for the Pennsylvania District Justices. Judge Lowe retired from active judicial service in December, 1994, and under current Supreme Court regulations he will be permitted to serve as a Senior Judge until December 2004.

Judge Lowe has been honored with numerous awards and distinctions including Honorary Membership in the Montgomery County Fraternal Order of Police and the Gold Medallion given by the Chapel of Four Chaplains.

Personally, Judge Lowe married Frances Evelyn (nee Steeley) on August 28, 1948. They have two children, Diane Alison and Donald Kent, both of whom graduated from Germantown Academy and Bucknell University. Diane later graduated from the Pennsylvania University School of Medicine at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Donald graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. Mrs. Lowe died September 26, 1996. Judge Lowe then married Phyllis Ann Hoffman and they now reside in Souderton.

Jeff Lorber
Composer and Record Producer

Jeff Lorber, class of 1970, is a Grammy nominated composer, producer, and keyboardist who was a pioneer of the smooth jazz/new adult contemporary music format. Jeff, an Oregon resident, was inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame on October 17, 2009.

After leaving Cheltenham Mr. Lorber attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. He moved to Portland, Oregon in the early 1970's and formed an eponymous instrumental jazz funk ensemble called “The Jeff Luber Fusion” which included a then unknown saxophonist named Kenny Gorelick (later known as Kenny G). The Jeff Luber Fusion played a significant role in the development of an R&B-jazz hybrid sound that evolved into today's smooth jazz.

The Jeff Lorber Fusion released five albums and Mr. Lorber has released 15 additional solo albums plus two “greatest hits”compilations. Of his 20 studio albums 18 reached the top 30 on the Billboard's Jazz or Contemporary Jazz album charts. Since 1993, when his comeback album “Worth Waiting For” provided his first number one ranking, Mr. Luber has released nine albums and all but one has reached Billboards's Top 10 for Contemporary Jazz. His successful 2007 release, “He Had A Hat,” featured on Trumpet CHS 1963 Alumnus and Hall of famer Randy Brecker.

Mr Lorber has collaborated with and/or produced albums for nearly every notable jazz musician over the last 25 years. His accomplishments cross over into the world of pop music as well. He has worked with chart topping artists such as Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul , and U2. His music has been “sampled” by rap and hip-hop artists, including Jay-Z, and he has performed on soundtracks to movies and video games. His music has even been heard on The Weather Channel.

Mr. Lorber resides in Oregon with his wife Mink. He hosts a three hour radio show “Lorbers Place” each Sunday on the Sirius Satellite Radio Jazz Cafe Channel. He is a spokesman for the PKD Foundation, which rasises awareness and funds for Polycystic Kidney Disease.

    Horace MacVaugh, III
     Rear Admiral, US Naval Reserve Medical Corps
     Surgeon, Educator & Administrator
     Inducted in 1999

Upon graduating from Cheltenham in 1948, Horace MacVaugh attended Yale University. Initially concentrating his studies in engineering and then physics, MacVaugh decided to pursue a career in medicine. He earned his B.S. in zoology in 1952, and only three years later received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Following an internship at Abington Memorial Hospital, MacVaugh joined the United States Navy. After receiving training in Pensacola, Florida, he served for two years as flight surgeon of a transport squadron in Oahu, Hawaii. "That was a wonderful tour of duty," remarks MacVaugh, who was able to visit such nations as Japan, Thailand, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines.

MacVaugh returned to Philadelphia to pursue medicine as a civilian, though he would remain in the US Navy Reserve. He completed his surgical residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, training to become a cardiac surgeon under such prominent men as Drs. I.S. Ravdin, Jonathan Rhodes, and Julian Johnson. "I was fortunate to complete training toward the end of the pioneering era of cardiac surgery," says MacVaugh, "and then enjoyed the rapid acceptance of the new field in clinical medicine." MacVaugh would go on to perform the first coronary artery bypass operations at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

MacVaugh was a professor of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania until 1988 and at the Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University until 1990. He served as the Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Lankenau Hospital from 1978 to 1986 and Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Graduate Hospital from 1986 in 1990, both in Philadelphia. At present, MacVaugh is on the staff of the Graduate Health System, The NuHart Clinic, The Cleveland Hair Transplant Center, and The Physicians Body Sculpturing Center.

Throughout his career MacVaugh remained active in the US Navy Reserve Medical Corps, attaining the rank of Rear Admiral in 1986. He enjoys a vigorous leisure life, participating in such varied activities as skiing, woodworking and the medieval game of court tennis. In 1986 he climbed the 18,500-foot peak of Kala Pitar in the Himalayas ("thin air but not technically difficult," remarked MacVaugh). He is a licensed commercial pilot and is planning to build his own airplane soon.

MacVaugh has three children and seven grandchildren. He currently lives in Philadelphia.

        Arthur Magill
         Industrialist & Philanthropist
         Inducted in 1984

A 1929 graduate of Swarthmore College, Arthur Magill inherited and ran his father's children's underwear business, Her Majesty Industries. In 1955, he moved the company headquarters from Pennsylvania to Greenville, South Carolina, where he and his wife Holly have since made their home. The firm was sold to Gulf and Western in the mid-70's.

In 1974, the Magills contributed half the construction costs for the Greenville County Museum of Art -- the first South Carolina museum built in the twentieth century. The building's first exhibition featured works of the renowned American illustrator N.C. Wyeth. Soon afterwards the musuem exhibited the work of Wyeth's son Andrew, at which time the Magills owned only one Wyeth watercolor.

Both New York's Metropolitan Museum and the Boston Museum of Art were conducting negotiations with Joseph E. Levine, the movie producer, for the purchase of his Wyeth collection in 1979. However, neither would agree to his stipulation that the works remain on permanent display. Magill purchased the 26 Wyeth works from Levine and they are now on permanent loan to the Greenville County Museum. Today he owns the world's largest collection of Wyeth's works, having purchased 230 directly from the artist's personal collection. He owns more of Wyeth's than Andrew Wyeth!

Magill plays tennis (despite two heart bypass operations), writes poetry, travels in order to photograph Wyeth's original backdrops and loves walking through the galleries with visiting schoolchildren.

   Mary Ellen Mark
    Photojournalist
    Inducted in 1993

Mary Ellen Mark has made her mark on the world as one of the premier photojournalists and photoessayists of her era. Focusing neither on the mundane aspects of everyday life nor on the grotesque absurdities of society's misfits, Mark choose instead to turn her camera on society's fringes and, in the most unexpected of places, in a brothel in Bombay, in Oregon State Hospital, to find the truly human.

Mark received a B.F.A. in Painting and Art history and an M.A. in Photojournalism from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1965 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to photograph in Turkey. Her career spans over a quarter of a century. Her works have been published in 26 books and countless magazines. Her technique to get involved, be accepted by the subject, find the common link of humanity - has resulted in some of the most startling, awakening photographs ever taken: photographs of prostitutes waiting to be picked up by a John, photos of children in Calcutta at Mother Teresa's hospice, of patients in Ward 81 struggling to make it through the day. Many consider Mark one of the finest photojournalists in the world, and even more consider her the finest female in the field.

Mark's photographs reveal all aspects of the humanity she reaches: sadness, happiness, pain. Her work is emotionally intense and difficult for her sometimes, but she does not maintain any preconceptions about her mission: "Any photographer who thinks he or she going to change the world has an inflated ego."

Nevertheless, if connecting a viewer with the subject, if making a subject's emotions all to clear, if making the viewer more aware of what's out there, if any of these can change the world, then Mary Ellen Mark has as good a chance to do it as any CHS alum.

   John C. McHugh
    Head Wrestling Coach, University of Maryland
    Inducted in 2002

John McHugh, Cheltenham class of 1953, remains today, 50 years after his last wrestling match at Cheltenham, the Panthers' greatest individual wrestler. This lightweight on the mat is a heavyweight in the record book having earned three district titles, three regional titles and becoming CHS's last PIAA State Champion (1953). His high school record earned him admission into the Southeastern Pennsylvania Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Pennsylvania Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Since 1978, John C. McHugh, Class of 1953, has been head wrestling coach at the University of Maryland with an overall record of 280-171-8. In 1993 the National Wrestling Hall of Fame presented Mr. McHugh with their Lifetime Service Award for Coaching.

Educationally, Mr. McHugh received his B.S. in Physical Education from the University of Maryland in 1959. He then earned his Master's in Education from American University in 1968. While an undergrad at Maryland, Mr. McHugh was a NCAA Semifinalist (1957), Co-Captain of the Wrestling Team (1957), Atlantic Coast Conference Champion (1956-57), and NCAA Quarter finalist (1956).

Following his schooling at Maryland, Mr. McHugh served in the United States Marine Corps as 2nd Lieutenant and served active duty from 1959-1962. After his discharge from the Marines, McHugh moved to Washington, DC, where he became the head wrestling coach at The Catholic University of America. In 1966 he moved cross town to American University where he coached and became an Assistant Professor, Physical Education until 1969. In 1969 he returned to his alma mater where he became assistant wrestling coach and an instructor in Physical Education. In 1978 he took over as head coach from William "Sully" Krouse.

Mr. McHugh's coaching highlights at Maryland include seven All Americans and twenty-three ACC champions. In 1990 and 1993 he was named the Atlantic Coach Conference Coach of the Year. The 2002-3 wrestling season will be his last as he retires after 40 years as a college wrestling coach.

   Robert J. Myers
    Social Security Expert
    Inducted in 1984

Robert Myers is often called the nation's foremost expert on Social Security. In 1934, at the invitation of the Roosevelt Administration, he was in Washington on assignment, during which time he wrote actuarial formulas for nine different old-age insurance programs. One of these tables, after revision, later emerged as the Social Security System.

Myers has an engineering degree from Lehigh University, his Masters in Actuarial Mathematics (University of Iowa) and two honorary doctorate degrees (Muhlenberg and Lehigh).

Myers served with the Social Security Administration from 1934-70, including his term as Chief Actuary from 1947-70. He left this post to teach at Temple University, Howard University and the University of Connecticut. He returned to Washington in 1981 as Deputy Commissioner of Social security to try to save the system, but resigned as a protest over the failure of congress to enact the necessary legislation to achieve solvency. Before his resignation, Myers was appointed Executive Director of the National Commission on Social Security Reform, and he is endeavoring to resolve the financial problems of the system and restore the public's faith in its long-range viability.

He is a Past President of the Society of Actuaries and a member of several national and international actuarial associations. Myers has been the recipient of numerous awards, the most recent the 1983 Distinguished Citizen Award from the National Health and Welfare Mutual Life Insurance Association. He is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. His book Social Security was revised and updated in 1981. Myers was in Grenada on a technical mission for the Organization of American States during the coup and he and his wife, Ruth, left on a chartered plane shortly before the arrival of U.S. Marines. The Myers, who reside in Silver Spring, Maryland, have two sons and three grandchildren

Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel
Inducted in 1999

Born in Tel Aviv in 1949, Benjamin Netanyahu came to the United States at the age of 13. Netanyahu attended Cheltenham High School, and impressed teachers and fellow students with his academic brilliance and his strong convictions. In June 1967, when tensions between Egypt and Israel erupted into what is now known as the Six-Day War, Netanyahu and several of his classmates missed their graduation ceremony to help in the war effort in Israel. Netanyahu served for five years as an officer in an elite paratrooper unit of the Israel Defense Forces, participating in many successful anti-terrorist missions and eventually reaching the rank of captain.

Netanyahu returned to the United States to complete his education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning a B.S. in architecture in 1974 and a M.S. in management studies in 1976. Following the death of his brother Jonathan in the July 1976 mission to rescue hostages at Uganda's Entebbe Airport, Benjamin co-founded the Jonathan Institute, a Jerusalem-based foundation researching terrorism. Netanyahu organized the institute's International Conference on International Terrorism in 1979, the event which first thrust Netanyahu into the world spotlight. As part of his tireless work to combat terrorism, Netanyahu organized a second International Conference in 1984 and has authored and edited such books as Terrorism: How the West Can Win (1986), International Terrorism: Challenge and Response (1991), and Fighting Terrorism (1995). Former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz credited Netanyahu with playing a central role in shaping American policy towards terrorism during the 1980's.

Netanyahu was appointed the Deputy Chief of Mission of the Israeli Embassy in the United States in 1982. From 1984 to 1988, Netanyahu served as Israel's ambassador to the United Nations. In 1988, Netanyahu returned to Israel, immediately beginning his rapid ascent in Israeli politics. A member of the right-wing Likud Party, he was elected to the 12th Knesset and was soon appointed Deputy Foreign Minister. Netanyahu's face was a familiar sight on ABC's Nightline and CNN's Larry King Live at the time of the Gulf War, during which he served as Israel's principal representative in the international arena.

In March 1993, Netanyahu was elected chairman of the Likud Party. His criticism of Prime Minister Shimon Peres voiced the concerns of many Israelis who felt that too much was being yielded to the PLO in order to gain peace. In the nation's first direct election of its leader, Benjamin Netanyahu was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1996, winning by less than one percent of the vote. His term of office was marked by division within the Likud Party and within Israeli society in general. After three years of Netanyahu's hard-line opposition to the Palestinians, the majority of Israelis were eager for the peace process to move forward.

In May 1999, Netanyahu was soundly defeated in his bid for re-election by Labor Party candidate Ehud Barak. In a career unparalleled in Israeli history, Netanyahu climbed rapidly to the top by combining a tenacious idealism with an American understanding of media. At 46 years of age, Benjamin Netanyahu became the first Prime Minister under 60 ever to have been elected in Israel. Following the 1999 election, Netanyahu resigned from the Knesset and retired from politics. He now plans to lecture extensively in the United States.

Jonathan Netanyahu
   Officer, Israeli Defense Forces
   Hero of the 1976 Anti-Terrorist Raid on Entebbe Aiport
   Inducted in 1984

Born in the United States in 1946, Jonathan "Yoni" Netanyahu emigrated with his family to Israel when he was three years old.

The family returned to the United States often. Netanyahu entered Cheltenham High School in 1963 while his father, Ben-Zion, taught at Dropsie University (then Dropsie College) in Philadelphia.

Netanyahu studied at Harvard University before he became an Israeli paratrooper. He was wounded in the Six Day War and decorated for bravery in the Yom Kippur War. Netanyahu was killed at the age of thirty, while leading the raid on the airport at Entebbe, Uganda, to free hostages, most of them Israelis, who had been held captive for almost a week by hijackers.

Netanyahu was one of the best-known young officers in the Israel Defense Forces. He had been especially picked to lead the most crucial part of the hostage rescue and the entire operation was afterwards designated as "Operation Jonathan" in his honor.

An Israeli organization has been established in his memory called the Jonathan Institute, the purpose of which is to study causes of terrorism and the best ways to cope with it.

From his early teens, Netanyahu wrote letters to relatives and friends. These have been collected by his family and published under the title Self Portrait of a Hero. In the book's introduction, Herman Wouk calls the collection of Netanyahu's letters "a remarkable work of literature, possibly one of the greatest documents of our time".

    Donald Pike
     Emmy Award-Winning Technical Manager
     Inducted in 1987

Pike's career began as a Music Instructor at Philadelphia Polytechnic Institute. From there he joined Farnsworth Television, Ltd., working as conductor-arranger for experiment television broadcasting. In 1945 Pike joined the Television Development Staff of the National Broadcasting Company. He operated in every technical position in the NBC staff, including that of Technical Director. Some highlights of this phase of his career were Philco Television Playhouse and the first television opera (Aida) which required Pike to read an orchestral score rather than a script. Pike became Technical Director for the RCA-NBC Color Television Systems Development Project Field Tests in 1950. The facilities were used to refine the systems for final approval of the present color television method specified by the Federal Communications Commission. He also served as Technical Field Representative including responsibility for quality control of remote pickups for network service. In 1961 Pike joined the U.S. information Agency in Washington, D.C., and rose to Chief of Production.

Pike then returned to NBC and became deeply involved with color broadcast of events at Cape Canaveral for NASA, since only NBC had color equipment and the other networks had to feed from NBC. He handled the televising of several President trips for Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. Pike has also been responsible for the transmission of several Super Bowls, World Series games and Miss America Pageants. Pike received a Emmy for Technical Production of Stereo Sound for his work on the telecast of Vladimir Horowitz's performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta. Since his retirement, Pike was asked by the NBC Engineering Department to join their staff in coverage of the 1988 Olympics from Seoul, Korea.

   Virginia Redford
    Athlete, Coach & Educator
    Inducted in 2002

Virginia Redford, Class of 1927, was known as a regional tennis celebrity in the 1940's. She attended Skidmore College where she earned a B.S. in 1931 and the University of Pennsylvania where she earned an M.S. in 1940.

She returned to Cheltenham where she taught physical education. She was appointed assistant department chair in 1961 and later served as department chair of the girls' physical education department. She coached hockey and tennis at Cheltenham High School for many years. Her prowess as a coach is best reflected in the number of All-American and All-Philadelphia hockey players that came through the Cheltenham program while she coached. Some of these included Sue Wagner Lubking, Adele Boyd, Nancy Wood Dennery, Joan Moser and Sandy Wood Wilkes.

Miss Redford's sports enthusiasm soared beyond the Cheltenham playing fields. She achieved recognition throughout the Philadelphia area in both tennis and squash. She won the Middle States Lawn Tennis Association's Clay Court Tournament in 1942, and in 1943 she won the women's singles. Ms. Redford also received numerous tennis awards from the Philadelphia Rifle Club.

A natural athlete, Miss Redford joined the Germantown Cricket Club where she triumphed in her debut appearance (1941), after having played for only three months. In 1942, she upset the favorite, Mrs. Bolton Earnshaw, in the opening round of the Philadelphia Women's B Squash Championship at Germantown Cricket Club.

Born in West Virginia, Miss Redford spent the majority of her life in Elkins Park. She moved to Meadowbrook after retiring in 1972. Miss Redford died July 15, 1997, at the age of eighty-eight.

    Richard Rothman
     Orthopaedic Surgeon
       Founder of the Rothman Institute
     Inducted in 1987

A Cheltenham High School graduate in 1954, Richard Rothman received his B.A. in history from the University of Pennsylvania and in 1962 his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. In 1965 he received a Ph.D. in Anatomy at Thomas Jefferson University.

Dr. Rothman has devoted his entire medical career to the specialty of orthopaedic surgery with a focus on replacement of the human hip and knee. He currently serves as the James Edwards Professor and Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University and Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at Pennsylvania Hospital where he heads the Rothman Institute.

The Rothman Institute, which he founded in 1970, is a center for joint replacement surgery at Pennsylvania Hospital. Approximately 800 hip replacements, 800 total knee replacements and more than 400 spinal surgeries are performed there each year. The center is also a center for orthopaedic research and a major teaching facility. The Rothman Institute is credited with having developed many advanced innovations in this highly specialized area of orthopaedic surgery.

Rothman, considered by many to be one of the finest orthopaedic surgeons in the world, is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, the Annenberg Institute, and the Brandywine Museum. He is well published in his own field with over 100 original publications and eleven textbooks to his credit.

Dr. Rothman lives in Center City Philadelphia with his wife, Marsha Van Syckle.

   Bernard Rothschild
    Architect
    Inducted in 1981

A 1932 graduate of CHS, Rothschild was a 1937 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. After serving in the United States Navy he began his career as an architect, entering private practice with the Atlanta-based firm of Alexander and Rothschild. A second practice -- Finch, Alexander, Barnes, Rothschild and Paschal -- was also based in Atlanta.

Rothschild is the recipient of numerous awards for service and excellence and is a member of several task forces, institutes and committees. Some of his honors include:

Edward C. Kemper Award, The American Institute of Architects (National), 1973
Fellow, The American Institute of Architects, 1966
Fellow, The Construction Specifications Institute, 1964
The Construction Specifications Institute National President's Plaques, 1963 and 1965
Rothschild's most noteworthy work includes:

Atlanta Stadium (Atlanta)
Buffalo Stadium (Buffalo, NY)
Cincinnati Stadium (Cincinnati)
Detroit Stadium (Detroit)
Georgia Power Company Office Building (Atlanta)
Coca-Cola Office Buiiding (Atlanta)
Phipps Plaza Shopping Center (Atlanta)

In addition to his architectural work, Rothschild has held the following positions:

President, Georgia Association AIA 1972
Member, Georgia Architectural Registration Board 1974-84
Associate Trustee, University of Pennsylvania 1976-80
Member of the Board of Overseers, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts, 1976-80
Bursar, AIA College of Fellows, 1980-82
Lieutenant, United States Naval Reserve (Retired).

Rothschild is married to the former Barbara Haas. The Rothschilds have three children and two grandchildren.

    David Saxon
      President and Professor Emeritus,
        University of California
        Inducted 1987

Theoretical physics, nuclear physics, quantum mechanics and electromagnetic theory are four academic fields in which Dr. David Saxon, physicist and university educator, has made significant contributions. After leaving Cheltenham, Saxon earned both his B.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After completing his education, he became a member of the physics faculty at UCLA, and later became chairperson of the physics department. In 1975 he was named the fourteenth president of the University of California, where he was responsible for the University's nine campuses and three national research laboratories. In 1983 he returned to M.I.T. as the Chairman of the Corporation, heading the Institute's Board of Trustees. Retiring in 1990, he was elected Life Member and Honorary Chairman of the Corporation.

In addition to his teaching and administrative credentials, Saxon is the author of Elementary Quantum Mechanics and co-author of three physics textbooks. He has also contributed articles to various scientific journals. In addition, he holds several honorary degrees from universities in the United States and abroad. Saxon was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1956-57 and a Fulbright grantee in 1961-62. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Dr. Saxon and his wife, Shirley Goodman, currently reside in Los Angeles, California and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Together they have have six daughters and five grandchildren.

     Roger Scott
      Principal Bass, Philadelphia Orchestra, 1948-1995
        Master Teacher, Curtis Institute of Music
      Inducted in 1999

Roger Scott was principal bass of the Philadelphia Orchestra for 47 years, performing with many of the world's greatest conductors including Philadelphia maestros Eugene Ormandy, Riccardo Muti, and Wolfgang Sawallisch. For decades Scott was a master teacher at the Curtis School of Music, imparting a love of the double bass repertoire to a new generation of musicians.

Roger Scott's musical career began at Cheltenham High School with the encouragement of Walker D. Taylor, head of the CHS music department. Taylor encouraged Scott to join the school's orchestra so that Scott, a dedicated Boy Scout, could earn his music merit badge. Scott took up the double bass and was soon leading a small ensemble that was heard on local radio. In addition to playing in the school orchestra, Scott joined Mr. Taylor's shipboard orchestra where he performed with other CHS students on boat trips to South America in the summers of 1934 and 1935. During his time at Cheltenham, Scott also participated in the Carnegie Foundation's influential "Pennsylvania Study", an extended experiment whose results helped advance American education. An honor student, Scott graduated from Cheltenham in 1936.

Following a year of intense study of the double bass, Scott was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music, an institution with which he has enjoyed a lifetime relationship. He studied with Anton Torello, then the principal bass of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Following his 1941 graduation from the Curtis Institute, Scott toured the United States with the All-American Youth Orchestra under the baton of the Leopold Stokowski. With the outbreak of World War II, Scott found himself in the U.S. Marine Band in Washington D.C., playing the baritone horn in concerts and parades and frequently appearing as bass soloist. As a member of numerous chamber ensembles, Scott often performed at the White House for the first family and foreign dignitaries.

After the war Scott spent a year in New York as a freelance musician, performing with a number of radio and opera orchestras. He played for a season with the Pittsburgh Symphony under Fritz Reiner, his former conductor at the Curtis Institute, but soon returned to his Philadelphia roots. He joined the Philadelphia Orchestra during its golden age under legendary music director Eugene Ormandy, creator of the world-famous "Philadelphia sound". Scott became a member of the bass section in 1947, and was appointed principal bass by Ormandy during the 1948-1949 season. He would retain this post until his retirement 47 years later. During his remarkable career, Scott recorded countless works of the classical repertoire with Ormandy and performed over 10,000 concerts in cities all over the world.

Roger Scott has also distinguished himself as an outstanding teacher of music. Succeeding his mentor Anton Torello, Scott began teaching double bass at the Curtis Institute in 1948. An incomparable teacher, Scott has guided more than 50 pupils through the intricacies of double bass technique. His pupils have gone on to become renowned teachers and performers themselves, including five current members of the Philadelphia Orchestra and numerous first chair players in orchestras around the world.

As a teacher and a performer, Scott strove to establish the double bass as a solo instrument. In solo recitals and recordings, he brought to the instrument a level of technique and sophistication taken for granted on the violin and cello. During the 1966-1967 season, Scott played the challenging bass solo in the premiere of Alberto Ginastera's Concerto for Strings. Scott counts among his proudest possessions a solo bass made by Lorenzo Evangelisti in 1735.

In 1972, the Philadelphia Orchestra honored Scott with the C. Hartman Kuhn Award for his ability and enterprise in enhancing the standards and reputation of the orchestra. After a long and distinguished career in music, Scott retired from the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1995. He now lives in Philadelphia and Cape May with his wife Eleanor Huston Scott, ‘36. They have four children and three grandchildren.

Norma Levy Shapiro
U.S. District Court Judge
Inducted in 1981

A 1945 CHS graduate, Shapiro served as editor of the El Delator. She did her undergraduate work at the University of Michigan and was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia. After law school, she served as law clerk to Justice Horace Stern of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

She then became an associate and eventual partner, in the law firm of Deckert, Price and Rhoads of Philadelphia, until her appointment to the Federal Bench in 1978. She became the first woman judge for the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Philadelphia Bar Association. She has served as both a member and president of the Board of School Directors of Lower Merion, Pennsylvania. Presently she is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Albert Einstein Hospital and a Trustee for the Federation of Allied Jewish Agencies. Shapiro is also a member of the Board of Jewish Publication Society.

Shapiro and her husband Bernard have three children: Finley, Neil and Aaron. Her husband is chief of Nuclear Medicine at Einstein Hospital-Northern Division.

   Ronald Shapiro
    Attorney
    Inducted in 1984

When Ronald Shapiro was Securities Commissioner of Maryland between 1972 and 1974, he was called the best in the country by the chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement division. He saved investors an estimated $10 million by strengthening the state's brokerage examination, revising the state's private offering rule and establishing a securities hot line.

A practicing corporate law attorney since 1967, Shapiro formed his own law firm in 1972 and later founded Personal Management Associates, Inc. PMA advises professional athletes, media personalities and other professionals on life management, with particular emphasis on financial matters. Shapiro handles most salary negotiations for PMA's clients. Over half the Baltimore Orioles deal with PMA and Shapiro has been publicly commended by Baltimore's mayor for his efforts in backing the Orioles' involvement in community affairs.

Shapiro has taught at several law schools and given numerous seminars in his areas of expertise. He has co-authored two legal texts and authored or co-authored about two dozen legal articles. He is listed in Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who in American Law.

In his spare time, Shapiro also serves his religious and social communities 'by his affiliations with various groups including Friends of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. He was recently instrumental in resolving a season-delaying contract impasse for the symphony. Shapiro's volunteer efforts proved successful after federal mediation had failed.

Shapiro is married to Cathi and between them they have seven children.

Major General Ronald D. Silverman

D.D.S.

Ronald D. Silverman, class of 1965, is the first Major General in the history of the United States to serve as commander of all echelons above division level medical forces in a combat zone, and the first dentist to command all medical operations in a combat zone. He deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from August 2006 through August 2007.

Major General Silverman graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1969 and received a commission through the U.S. Army as a Medical Service Corps Officer through the Reserve Officer Training Corps Program. He then graduated from the Temple University School of Dentistry with a D.D.S. in Dentistry in 1972. At that point he received a commission as a Dental Corps Officer and served on active duty with the U.S. Army from 1972-1975.

After leaving active duty Major General Silverman began a dental practice in Alexandria, Virginia and joined the U.S. Army Reserve. His assignments have included service as a Dental Corps Officer, Senior Dental Staff Officer and Chief of the Army Dental Corps. In 1994 he graduated from the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle. From October 1998 through September 2002 he served as Commander of the 804^th Medical Brigade. In that position Major General Silverman was responsible for organizing and implementing numerous medical readiness training exercises across the country and around the world. During his time as Commander the 804^th Medical Brigade provided medical assistance to thousands of foreign and domestic civilians in Ecuador, El Salvador, and Paraguay and provided health care to Native Americans in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana.

In March 2004 he assumed command of the 3^rd Medical Command out of Fort Gillem, Georgia. He deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as the senior medial officer in Iraq. Major General Silverman was responsible for providing the complete spectrum of level III health-care for more than 150,000 soldiers throughout Iraq and he oversaw more than 30 medical units consisting of more than 32 thousand soldiers and airmen.

His numerous decoration include the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit with one Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, and the Army Service Ribbon.

Major General Silverman resides in Annandale, Virginia with his wife, Miriam. Their daughter, Lisa is a graduate of MIT where she works as a researcher. Their son, Matthew, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and is a First Lieutenant in the 82^nd Airborne Division that served in Iraq at the time Major General Silverman did. During World War II, Major General Silverman's father was a surgeon in the Third Army commanded by General George S. Patton.

    Kenny Solms
     Television Writer & Producer
     Inducted in 1987

Kenny Solms began his professional career in New York, teamed with New York University classmate Gail Parent to write revue material for Leonard Sillman's Broadway revue New Faces of 1968 and for New York's famed Upstairs at the Downstairs. His association with Ms. Parent subsequently became one of the most successful collaborations in American comedy.

Following the runway success of three comedy albums (including Our Wedding Album, a hilarious spoof of the Luci Baines Johnson wedding) and a season on Steve Allen's Comedy Hour, Solms created and wrote the first four seasons of the Emmy Award-winning Carol Burnett Show for which he received an award from the Writers Guild of America. He wrote numerous television specials for such stars as Julie Andrews, Ann-Margret, Mary Tyler Moore, Bing Crosby, Dick Van Dyke, Anne Bancroft, and Bill Cosby. His writing of Sills and Burnett at the Met earned him a Peabody Award. Solms wrote and produced The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Three Girls Three and two HBO specials starring Carol Burnett and Martin Mull.

Solms wrote the book for the Jule Styne/Comden & Green musical Lorelei, which starred Carol Channing. He was reunited with Gail Parent when they adapted her novel Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York into a motion picture starring Roy Scheider and Jeannie Berlin. Solms has been head writer and producer for numerous television variety specials including Disneyland's 30th Anniversary Celebration and Neil Diamond's Hello Again.

Solms also wrote and produced the HBO special Bruce Wills: The Return of Bruno, Burnett Discovers Domingo for CBS, This Is Your Life, Kelsey Grammer Salutes Jack Benny, and is a frequent contributer to Touched by an Angel. He is currently writing a new musical for Broadway, Ain't That a Kick in the Head, based on the songs of Sammy Cahn.

Robert C. Solomon, PhD
   Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy
    University of Texas at Austin
   Inducted in 2002

Robert C. Solomon, Class of 1960, received his B.A. in molecular biology from The University of Pennsylvania. In 1965 he received both his M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy/psychology from the University of Michigan. He is currently the Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas in Austin. He is best known for his course on Existentialism and for his teaching in the Plan II Honors Program.

Before his appointment at the University of Texas, Dr. Solomon taught at numerous universities such as the University of Pennsylvania; the University of Auckland, New Zealand; Princeton University; Harvard University and Smith College.

Dr. Solomon is the author of more than forty books: The Passions, In the Spirit of Hegel, About Love, A Passion for Justice, The Joy of Philosophy, and his most recent work, Spirituality for the Skeptic just released from Oxford University Press. He also has written 140 articles, published two songs, and written occasional columns in Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Texas Observer, Chronicle of Higher Education, and The New York Times.

The recipient of many awards, Dr. Solomon has been honored with the following: Danforth Foundation Nominee (Harbison Award), 1969; Standard Oil Outstanding Teaching Award, 1973; President's Associates Teaching Award, 1985 and 1996; University of Texas Institute Award, 1977, 1981, 1986, 1984; Academy; Distinguished Teachers, 1997-2005; and Chad Oliver Award, 1998.

Dr. Robert Solomon married Kathleen M. Higgins in 1990.

     Perry Triplett
      Local Historian
      Inducted in 1993

Perry Triplett, who led the tireless fight to create the LaMott National Historical Landmark, describes himself as, above all, a historian.

After graduating from Cheltenham High School in 1947, Triplett began research on a figure about whom little was written at the time: Lucretia Mott. He formed the Citizens for the Restoration of Historical LaMott Committee in 1960, and to this day he has continued his quest to give Mott the respect he feels she deserves.

Triplett's training in the field of engineering led him to work with the Pennsylvania Department of Highways. His success in this field eventually developed to the point where he became the Consulting Engineer for the building of the Second Delaware Memorial Bridge. In addition, he was the engineer for the New York Port Authority project for relocating the New Jersey Turnpike through Newark Airport lands in 1967.

Triplett, who has lived in Cheltenham his entire life, has been taken different courses at Penn State, Drexel University and Temple University, and he has certificates from Temple in foundation technology for major construction.

Triplett has served as a member of the Pennsylvania Bicentennial Commission, a member of the Abolition Society of Pennsylvania, and as a member of the Cheltenham Township U.S. Department Interior Task Force. In addition, he is a member of the Fee Disputes Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association.

   Wallace Triplett
    Professional Football Player
    Inducted in 1999

Born and raised in LaMott, Wally Triplett was the fifth of six sons of Mahlon and Estella Triplett, all of whom graduated from Cheltenham High School. During his high school years Wally participated in basketball and baseball, but it was football that brought this star athlete his greatest honors. Upon graduating from CHS in 1945 he entered Pennsylvania State University.

Wally Triplett has been called the "Jackie Robinson of Penn State football, a pioneer in the civil rights struggle." Before Lennie Moore, Lydell Mitchell, Curt Warner and Curtis Enis, before any of the dozens of African-Americans who have played football at State College, there was Wally Triplett. Triplett was the first African-American ever to start and the first to earn a varsity letter on a Penn State football team.

His first season at Penn State was not exceptional. His first start came late in the season in a game against Michigan State. In a 33-0 loss, the young freshman tailback had minus 18 yards on 10 carries. During his sophomore year he moved to right halfback on a team that went 6-2. At mid-season, the 1946 team voted to cancel a late November game in Miami after University of Miami officials informed Penn State that they would have to leave its "Negro" players at home to avoid "unfortunate incidents."

The following season, Penn State was invited to play in the 1948 Cotton Bowl against Southern Methodist. The game, played in Dallas, had never had a "Negro" player until the Cotton Bowl committee decided to integrate their game that year. However, because of Triplett and another African-American player, the team could not find accommodations in Dallas. During that historic 13-13 tie game, Wally Triplett scored the tying touchdown in the third quarter on a 6-yard pass play and is credited with making three touchdown-saving tackles while playing defensive back.

Twice in his Penn State career he rushed for over 100 yards, a rare feat in those days. In 1948 he led the team in scoring with 36 points and in all-purpose yardage with 424 rushing, 90 receiving and 220 on punt returns. His name can still be found in the Penn State record books as number two for career punt return average yardage with 16.5 yards per return.

Following graduation Triplett was drafted by the NFL's Detroit Lions, making him the first African-American player to be formally drafted by an NFL team. For that reason you can find his picture hanging in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. During his rookie season, in a game against the Green Bay Packers on October 31, 1949, Triplett was playing right halfback when he took a quick toss and went around the end for a 90 yard touchdown. The play set a team record for the longest run from scrimmage.

On October 29, 1950 the Lions took on the Rams. The Lions' new, young quarterback Bobby Layne was pulled at halftime as the Lions fell behind and finally losing the game 65-24. The high-scoring Rams kicked off that day more than usual. Early in the second quarter, Triplett returned a kickoff 81 yards to the Rams' 16 yard line. Before the first half had ended he had returned another 97 yards for a Lions touchdown. In the third quarter he returned another for 42 yards. The Rams then got the bright idea to kick away from him. Wally Triplett ended the game with 294 yards in return yardage, an NFL record that stood for 44 years.

After the 1950 NFL season, Wally became the first NFL player drafted into military service for the Korean War. When he returned from active duty, the Lions traded him to the Chicago Cardinals. He retired from professional football in 1953.

Triplett lived in Philadelphia and briefly taught at Ben Franklin High School before he returned to Detroit. Since then Wally has worked as a teacher, in the insurance business, in middle management for Chrysler at one of its stamping plants, and as the first African-American pari-mutuel clerk in Michigan horse racing history. He has also owned a liquor store, which he traded for an apartment building.

In 1974 Triplett and his wife Leonore purchased their first motorhome in which they travel extensively throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. They have been married for 49 years and have four children, two sons and two daughters.

Jeanne Friedmann Westheimer
Harvard University Administrator
Inducted in 1993

After attending college at Wellsley and the University of Pennsylvania, Jeanne Friedmann Westheimer, Class of '32, studied at the Philadelphia School of Social Work. Marriage to Frank Westheimer, then a chemistry professor at the University of Chicago, brought her to the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration where she received her Master of Arts in Social Work in 1941.

Westheimer arrived at Cambridge in 1953 when her husband became a Chemistry Professor at Harvard. She served on the League of Women Voters, Planned Parenthood, the Fair Housing Board, and the International Student Association. She also ran an office in Massachusetts for Scientists and Engineers for Johnson and Humphrey and raised money for Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1965.

Westheimer's first job at Harvard was a substitute position as Director of Harvard's Host Family Program for family students. Her talent shone there, and the next year she took over record coding of arts and sciences students for a graduate school study. She continued in the graduate school as a part-time Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science, a position she held from 1967-1980.

As Assistant Dean, Westheimer granted loans to graduate students, monitored the Ford Foundation Fellowships, and assigned scholarships to women. She then developed and implemented projects to solve student problems in the graduate school. Her programs helped students adjust to graduate work. She also helped with their personal and housing problems. Westheimer left Harvard in 1980, but her influence remained as the graduate school continued to prosper.

Since her retirement, Westheimer has participated in several volunteer activities.

Susan Bernheim Winston
Emmy Award winning television producer
Inducted in 2002

After graduating from Cheltenham, Class of 1969, Susan Bernheim Winston attended both Northwestern University in Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania from which she received a B.A. in English Literature.

She began her television career in Philadelphia at WCAU-TV, followed by a move to KYW-TV producing the nationally syndicated "Mike Douglas Show." She then moved to New York City where she became producer of ABC's top-rated "Good Morning America." One year later, in 1981, she became the show's Executive Producer, a position she held for three years. During that time she was nominated twice for Emmy Awards.

In 1984, Mrs. Winston had the opportunity to serve as a Senior Producer for ABC's coverage of the Los Angeles Summer Olympics. For this assignment she received an Emmy Award. After the Olympics she continued to produce shows for ABC's news department. She left ABC to become an Executive Producer at CBS and then made the move to Los Angeles to work for Lorimar Productions.

Ms. Winston has been a producer for numerous television productions including: "Where Are They Now?" (CBS Specials 1995-1997), "E! On O.J." (E Channel, 1995), a series of interactive prime time tests including "The National Driving Test", American Red Cross Emergency Test", and Guser's guide to Planet Earth", an environmental test that won the first ever Environmental Media Award, (ABC 1998). Winston also helped develop, for Whittle Communications, the youth-oriented news program "Channel One" now viewed daily in over 11,000 schools across the country.

With her partner Dan Funk, Winston runs a full service boutique television production company called Blanki and Bodi Productions. They are producers, writers and directors for such varied programs as "The Academy Awards" to a "VH 1 Christmas Music Special". She works primarily in the non-fiction genre but has credits in other areas of TV as well. Blanki and Bodi Productions has produced for all the major networks and cable companies. Currently they have a daily national talk show titled "The Other Half" starring Dick Clark, Danny Bonaduce, Mario Lopez, and Dorian Gregory. She has also completed two pilots for FOX television titled "Crime and Justice TV". In her own words she leads "an eclectic and hectic professional life that defies any sense of organized bio."

Ms. Winston has been married for twenty-eight years to Jim Winston, a marketing executive. They have three children: James, Dani and Nikki. Together they enjoy just about any sport you could name but mostly enjoy being together.