SHAKER SCHOOLS ALUMNI HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2020 April 9 - 10, 2021
STUDENT ASSEMBLY AND LIVESTREAM CELEBRATION Friday, April 9, 2021 Virtual Student Assembly with High School Students Saturday, April 10, 2021, 7:30 pm Livestream Celebration Meet & Greet Reception Rooms Immediately Following SHAKER SCHOOLS ALUMNI HALL OF FAME Congratulations to the eight 2020 inductees to the Shaker Schools Alumni Hall of Fame! These outstanding individuals join the ranks of renowned Shaker Heights High School alumni who exemplify what it means to be a Shaker graduate. They represent excellence and achievement in all walks of life, including business, medicine, law, education, the fine and performing arts, government, and public service, among other pursuits. Just as important, they have put others before themselves by contributing to the greater good of their communities and to society as a whole. We could not be more proud of their achievements and the example they have set for future generations of Shaker graduates. The Shaker Schools Foundation’s Alumni Hall of Fame Committee selected this year’s inductees from an extensive pool of outstanding nominations gathered from the community at large. To be considered for this honor, alumni must be distinguished in their field, make significant contributions to the community and serve as a positive role model to current students. The Shaker Schools Alumni Hall of Fame was established in 1986 and now includes over 300 inductees.
THANK YOU TO OUR 2020 SHAKER SCHOOLS ALUMNI HALL OF FAME COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Susan Berger · Ifeolu Claytor · Lee Fisher · Abby Goldstein Derek Greene · Leon Hines · Denise Mack Johnson · Carol Malone · William McRae Laurie Mitchell · Davidione Pearl · Beth Pollack · Dan Polster · *Paul Sauerland *Annette Tucker Sutherland · Mitch Wasserman · *Brittany Webb Mariama Whyte · Kandis Williams *Co-chairs
A SPECIAL THANK YOU! Dr. David Glasner, Superintendent Annette Tucker Sutherland, Class of ‘77, Paul Sauerland, Class of ‘79, and Brittany Webb, Class of ‘02, who have provided leadership as committee co-chairs and Shaker Schools Foundation Trustees
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The Shaker Schools Foundation’s mission is simple: To provide resources to enrich the educational experiences of students of the Shaker Heights City Schools. YOU are what makes this possible. Your support of the Shaker Schools Foundation allows us to provide additional enhancements to benefit every student, in every school building, and at every grade level. The Shaker Schools Foundation partnered with the Shaker City Schools to launch the Educational Equity Fund this school year. Initiatives include: • • • • • • •
Enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion resources for Shaker teachers, administrators, families and students Provide additional classroom resources and training to facilitate detracking Increase programming, such as “Girls Who Code,” to encourage young women in STEM classes and activities Expand career pathway opportunities for students Grow a “Mirrors and Windows” K-4 literature initiative that provides students with a mirror to their own culture and windows into others’ cultures Continue growing the MAC Scholars and MAC Sister Scholars programs Increase in-depth programming around Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Pride Month, Asian-Awareness, and Native American history.
The Shaker Schools Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that invites philanthropic support from individuals, corporations, and foundations. All donations are tax-deductible. For More Information: Holly Coughlin, Executive Director of the Shaker Schools Foundation coughlin_h@shaker.org or 216.295.4325 Follow the Shaker Schools Foundation Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn shakerschoolsfoundation.org Thank you to our Shaker Schools Foundation Board of Trustees: Stasia Vavruska, President, Carter Strang, Vice President, Doug Wang, Treasurer, Cathy Zbanek, Secretary, Jennifer Lawry Adams, Eileen Anderson, Cathy Belk, Michael Bowen, Lisa Cremer, Pawan K. Divakarla, Mark Freeman (Life Trustee), David Glasner, Christopher Hunter, Cliff Mendelsohn, Dorothea Polster, Lisa Nersesian Richardson, Philip Rowland-Seymour, Carter Strang, Annette Tucker Sutherland, Brittany Webb
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2020 INDUCTEES Carter Bays, Class of 1993, co-created the popular comedy series How I Met Your Mother, and served as co-showrunner for all 208 episodes during its nine year run. He has received seven Emmy nominations for his work, and in 2015 accepted the Golden Nymph Award on behalf of the show at the Monte Carlo Television Festival in Monaco. His other writing credits include Oliver Beene, American Dad!, and The Late Show with David Letterman. Along with How I Met Your Mother co-creator Craig Thomas, Bays co-founded the band The Solids, which performed the show’s theme song and whose music was recently featured on Sesame Street. Bays is a longtime champion of arts education, serving on the board of Young Playwrights Inc., which supports the New York Young Playwrights Festival, and on the board of the Armed Services Arts Partnership, an organization dedicated to helping veterans re-acclimate to civilian life through the arts. Bays is a graduate of Wesleyan University and lives in Los Angeles. The Honorable Rebecca Frank Dallet, Class of 1987, was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2018, having been endorsed by national leaders such as Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Cory Booker and former Attorney General Eric Holder. Prior to joining Wisconsin’s highest court, Dallet was elected to the Milwaukee County Circuit Court in 2008 and re-elected in 2014. During that time, she presided over 12,000 civil and criminal cases and acted as Presiding Judge of the Domestic Violence Courts. She became the first female Presiding Court Commissioner for Milwaukee County in 2007. She was previously a Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney and Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Dallet received her B.A. summa cum laude with honors from The Ohio State University in 1991 and her J.D. summa cum laude from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1994, where she was an editor of the law review. Dallet is an avid volunteer with a focus on equal access to justice and empowering women as leaders. She is a national trainer for VoteRunLead and was named a Wisconsin Business Journal “Woman of Influence” in 2019. coleman a. jordan / ebo, Class of 1981, is a professor of architecture at Morgan State University and principal of studio caj.e, an interdisciplinary research design practice. He is also co-founder of corners, a not-for-profit organization in Canada. His projects focus on social justice in both national and international contexts. His most recent project is in Kenya, where he and his colleagues are rethinking accessible design for a boarding school devoted to youth with disabilities. The Baltimore Museum of Art exhibited his collaborative art and architecture projects from 2017 – 2019. His work, HARLEM SPEAK: street signs and soapboxes, was highlighted in a 2004 New York Times article on the exhibition HarlemWorld: Metropolis as Metaphor, in New York City. He received a W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship at Harvard University to research the past and present spaces of the Black Atlantic, stemming from the historical Black Atlantic
slave trade, and has published and presented widely on related topics. jordan holds a B.S. in Architecture from The Ohio State University and a Master of Architecture from Clemson University. John L. Morgan, Class of 1986, is a detective with the Cuyahoga County Sheriff ’s Department, and one of six human trafficking experts in the state of Ohio. In one manner or another, he has served and protected his country for more than 30 years. After graduating from Shaker Heights High School, where he was co-captain of the hockey team, he served with the U.S. Marine Corps before attending The Ohio State University, and he graduated from the police academy in 1999. He served with the Marine Corps in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm and in 2005 he served with the Army National Guard in Operation Iraqi Freedom II. Since joining the Sheriff ’s department in 1999, Morgan has been involved in more than 50 homicide and use of deadly force investigations. From 2008 - 2015, he worked with the FBI on human trafficking investigations, and in 2016 he helped to develop the Cuyahoga County Regional Human Trafficking Task Force, where he currently serves. He was instrumental in passing Senate Bill 244, amending the penalties for promoting prostitution. In 2018, he received the Salvation Army “Others” award for his extraordinary service to the broader community, and he has received numerous awards from other organizations, including the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center. Morgan also serves on the Board of Directors for Boys Hope Girls Hope of Northeast Ohio, which supports children from under-resourced communities. John Morris Russell, Class of 1978, is a Grammy-nominated conductor, collaborator and educator whose wide-range of work continues to reinvigorate orchestral musicmaking across the continent. In his tenth year leading the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, he also serves as music director of the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra in South Carolina, where he conducts the prestigious Hilton Head International Piano Competition. He is also Principal Pops Conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, following in the footsteps of Marvin Hamlisch and Doc Severinsen. He served as music director of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra in Canada for eleven seasons and was named Conductor Laureate in 2012. As a guest conductor, Russell has worked with many of America’s most distinguished orchestras, including The Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Boston Pops, and National Symphony. He has also collaborated with such musical greats as Aretha Franklin, Emanuel Ax, Amy Grant and Vince Gill, Common, Branford Marsalis, Rhiannon Giddens, George Takei, Steve Martin, Brian Wilson, and Cynthia Erivo. Russell holds a B.A., cum laude, from Williams College, a Master of Music from University of Southern California, and an Honorary Doctorate from University of Windsor. He has also attended University of London, King’s College, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors. Continued on following page
Kevin Snipes, Class of 1981, is a celebrated ceramic artist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has exhibited his unconventional pottery throughout the U.S. and abroad. After graduating from Shaker, he received his BFA in ceramics and drawing from the Cleveland Institute of Art and attended graduate school at the University of Florida. He has participated in numerous artist residencies worldwide. He uses his travels to explore a sense of place, to augment his sense of identity, and to investigate the idea of the validity of otherness. His work has been exhibited in recent solo exhibitions at Minnesota State University, Mankato and at Plinth Gallery, Denver. His works are included in collections at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York and at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including grants from the Ohio Arts Council and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Kenny Thompkins, Class of 1977, is an award-winning graphic and digital artist who has worked as an animator for Walt Disney Studios for more than 30 years. During that time, he designed such beloved characters as Belle’s father, Cogsworth, and Chip from the animated Disney feature film, Beauty and the Beast. He received an Emmy for the Disney television series Winnie the Pooh, and has been the producer/ director of more than 150 animated episodes for Disney, Sunbow Entertainment, and Warner Brothers Television. He is well known in the industry as a character designer for Disney Television on shows such as Hercules, Aladdin, and the Mighty Ducks, and has illustrated books for Disney’s Aladdin and the Disney Princess collection, including the design for Disney’s first LatinX Disney princess. Thompkins attended the Cooper School of Art in Cleveland before moving to Los Angeles to attend the California Institute of the Arts, working in the commissary at Twentieth Century Fox while he earned his degree. Reverend Dr. Alyn E. Waller, Class of 1982, is senior pastor of Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and a highly sought after revivalist and lecturer. Since 1994, Enon has experienced unprecedented spiritual and numerical growth, including the development of a sanctuary for youth to participate in competitive sports. Waller leads more than 75 innovative ministries that serve over 13,000 members and the surrounding community, with social justice, health and food security initiatives. Waller previously served as President of Lott Carey Global Christian Missional Community, where he established church locations throughout South Africa. Additionally, Waller is a recording artist and founder of Enon Music Group, and author of the book, Code of the Righteous Warrior: 10 Laws of Moral Manhood for an Uncertain World. Waller holds a degree in music business, Master of Divinity, and Doctorate in Ministry to Marriage and Family. Nominations are Open for the Class of 2021 Shaker Schools Alumni Hall of Fame! To submit your nomination visit shakerschoolsfoundation.org/alumni by Friday, April 16, 2021.
SHAKER SCHOOLS ALUMNI HALL OF FAME The 2020 honorees are among the following distinguished Shaker alumni who are members of the Shaker Schools Alumni Hall of Fame. Abby Goulder Abelson ‘70 Aaron Abernathy ’01 Ronald Adrine ’65 Stephen J. Alfred ’52 Griffin Allen ’84 Harry Allen, Jr. ’59 Herbert Ascherman, Jr. ’65 Jamie Babbit ’89 Janice Green Baltimore ’60 Tom A. Bayless ’44 Carter Bays, ‘93 Douglas P. Beal ’65 Ronald Bell ‘49 Anne Womer Benjamin ’71 Carole Bennett ’72 Shoshana Stein Bennett ’71 Barbara Beran ’68 David Berger ’62 Peter Bergman ’57 Kenneth I. Berns ’56 Earl Biederman ’53 Daniel R. Biello ’65 Keith Black ’75 Janet Blair ’86 Eileen Savransky Blattner ’63 Pamela Bligh-Glover ’65 Daniel K. Bloomfield ’43 Sara Bloomfield ’68 Theodore R. Bloomfield ’41 Don Blumenthal ’70 Marie Daerr Boehringer ’31 Andy Borowitz ’76 Robert M. Boynton ’42 Marc Brenner ’65 Jim Brickman ’79 B. Holly Broadbent ’45 Richard Brubaker ’50 Zack Bruell ’71 Stephen Bucchieri ’58 Judith Butler ’74 Jane Campbell ’71 Jim Campbell ’76 Paul Campbell ’73 George Caplan ’61 Gilbert Cargill ’65 Robert Chamberlin ’47 James H. Christie ’38 Adrien Clarke ‘99 Brian Patrick Clarke ’70 Roger F. Classen ’64
Nathan Clements, ‘98 Anne Cochran ’77 Anna Lupica Colagiovanni ’12 Jeffrey A. Cole ’60 Vivien Abrams Collens ’64 Robert I. Collins ’66 JudyAnn Cothran ’63 Charlotte Jaffe Cowan ’47 Reynold Crane ’65 Rebecca Frank Dallet, ‘87 Hugh Danaceau ’47 Billy Newton Davis ’69 Kristen VanValkenburg DeStigter ’80 Thomas Deutsch ’50 Charan Devereaux ’87 George Divoky ’64 Paul Donaldson ’44 Jack A. Drewry ’67 Arlene Erlbach ’66 Robert Elton ’50 Arthur England, Jr. ’51 Jennifer Cohen Estlin ’83 William W. Falsgraf ’51 Michael Feigenbaum ’72 Betty Downes Fettinger ’49 John “J.P.” Fischer, II ’99 Nate Fish ’98 Barbara Fisher ’72 Lee I. Fisher ’69 Rob Fisher ’57 Glen Paul Freiberg ’70 Leonard E. Fribourg ’38 Gordon S. Friedman ’60 James M. Friedman ’59 Matthew Frymier ’86 Marcia Fudge ’71 James Gannon ’81 Peter Garson ’55 Victor Gelb ’44 Thomas D. Gelehrter ’53 Karen Stein Gelender ’67 Jeff Gerth ’62 David Gilliss ’64 Douglas Gilliss ’64 Neil Glazer ’64 David Gleason ’50 Morton Glickman ’55 Richard Goldstein ‘59 Henry Goodman ’50
Irving I. Gottesman ’49 Phil G. Goulding ’38 Derek Green ’81 Ernest Green, Jr. ’83 Michael Green ‘80 Zachary Green ’74 Burt W. Griffin ’50 Adam Grossman ’98 Robert L. Grossman ‘76 Matt Guerrier ’96 Clifford Gyves ’87 David A. Hansell ‘71 Judy Harris ‘66 Ric Harris ’82 Dorothy Hart ’40 Lorna Hartling, ’83 Eleanor M. Hayes ’72 Jerry Heller ’58 Herman Hellerstein ’33 Ralph Hexter ’70 Carl Hirsch ’64 Gerri Johnson Hobdy ’77 Anita Hollander ’74 Mildred Fried Hollander ’35 Providence Pedone Hollander ’44 Ronald D. Holman, II ’78 Stacey L. Holman ’89 Jack A. Horner, Jr. ’46 Dorothy Humel Hovorka ’38 Caroline M. Minter Hoxby ’84 David Icove ’67 Maxine Isaacs ’65 Andrea L. Johnson ’74 Eric Johnson ’72 David Wickham Jones ’56 Peter Lawson Jones ’71 coleman a. jordan / ebo, ‘81 Martha Joseph ’35 Nina Kaden ’51 Marc Kamionkowski ’83 Michael Kass ’78 Bram Kaufman ’78 Katherine Stone Kaufmann ‘63 Rollin W. King ’50 Kara Kirby ’89 Donald J. Kirk ’51 Dennis B. Klein ’66
Jerome A. Klein ’39 Roger Klein ’60 Eugenie Kleinerman ’67 Nancy Klopper ’74 Richard Koblentz ’68 Marci Koblenz ’76 Shirley L. Koller ’38 Alan Kopit ’70 Edward Kovachy ’64 Charlotte Rosenthal Kramer ’37 Richard Krauss ’53 Harvey Laidman ’60 Amy Lazarus ’01 Sherelynn Lehman ’59 John Leibacher ’59 David Leu ’88 Freda Levenson ’69 Gerald Levert ’84 James Levin ’71 Joshua A. Levy ’90 Mark F. Lindsay ’81 Henry A. LiPuma ’39 Tommy LiPuma ’56 Jules R. Lodish ’63 Wesley Lowery ‘08 Dennis Lustig ’62 Bruce E. MacNab ’48 James A. Malone ’72 Martha Hollander Marsh ’67 Paul S. Mason ’73 Joan Finn McCracken ’54 Peter McDonald ’48 Michael D. McElroy ’85 Michael McGean ’45 Susan Bloomenthal Maynard ’59 Geoffrey Mearns ’77 Laura Meckler ’86 Judith Sue Meisner ’56 Steven Michel ’87 Aaron David Miller ‘67 Norma Reiter Miller ’56 Kasumi Minkin ’67 Susan Lowe Modi ’60 Thomas B. Modly ’79 Loren C. Moore ’80 John L. Morgan, ‘86 Kathy Urdang Mulcahy ’73 Clyde Nash ’51 Marc Nathanson ’65 Paul Newman ’43 Betsie Norris ’78 Edmund G. Norwick, Jr. ’38 Walter (Ted) Olson ’35
Susan Orlean ’73 Joan Pagano ’64 Jolyn Darden Parker ’70 Harvey Pekar ’57 Roger Penske ’55 Alan Perris ’60 Nancy Silber Pickus ’52 Carol Pineau ’77 Kenneth Plotkin ’78 David Pogue ’81 Daniel A. Polster ’69 James Polster ’65 Mary Jane Pories ’74 Robert Post ’41 James R. Pracker ’59 Douglas Price-Hanson ’81 Alan Ptak ’67 George Qua ’48 Kenneth Rainin ’56 Austin Ratner ’90 Charles Ratner ’59 Mark Ratner ’60 Jane Rau ’40 Robert H. Rawson, Jr. ’62 Alan F. Reeves ’39 Laurel Richie ’77 Barbara Shultz Robinson ’47 Joseph W. Rock ’70 Marcia Rock, ‘67 Linda Rocker ’58 David B. Roth ’67 Loren Roth ’57 Kathy Roth-Douquet ‘82 Tim Roudebush ’48 Ann Rowland ’69 David Rubin ’63 John Morris Russell, ‘78 Todd Anthony Sams ’90 Marlene Sanders ’48 Amy Sands ’68 Nay Sanna ’45 Angelo SantaMaria ’50 Jean E. Schaffer ’78 Richard C. Schanfarber ’56 Michael Scharf ’81 Carol Scheffler ’75 Drew Schultz ’06 Benedict R. Schwegler, Jr. ’67 Larry Sears ’65 Ernest Van B. Seasholes ’51 John P. Sedlak ’43 Lee Seidman ’50 Sanford (Sebransky) Severin ’52 Melvin Shafron ’48
Arnold M. Shankman ’64 Lauren Shuler-Donner ’67 Scott Siegler ’65 Daniel Jeremy Silver ’44 Jerry Silver ’65 Phyllis Israel Silverman ’31 Sue Silverman ’57 Lawrence Singerman ’61 Charles Smith ’38 Jamil Smith ‘ 93 Kevin Snipes, ‘81 Joe Solo (Douglas Klein) ’84 Scott Spero ’82 Edgar S. Spizel ’41 Patricia Lee Stotter, ‘67 Richard Stotter ’63 Duane J. Taylor ’78 Jerome D. Taylor ’92 Celeste Terry ’75 Kenny Thompkins ‘77 Reynold D. Thompson ’44 Tom Thrailkill ’48 Milan Tiff ’68 Bennett Tramer ’65 J. Brian Tuffin ’83 Robert Tuschman ’75 William R. Van Aken ’30 George Veras ’68 Joan Oettinger Vogel ’60 David Wain ’87 Beatrice Wall ’17 Alyn E. Waller ‘82 Eugene W. Ward, Jr. ’72 Herbert Warden ’39 Amy Wasserstrom ’79 Eugene Weiss ’53 Leonard Weiss ’58 Kym Whitley ’80 Elizabeth Sessoms Wilkerson ’76 Abdul Williams ‘90 Darryl L. Wilson ’81 Sonali Bustamante Wilson ’76 Britta Wilson-Uter, ‘79 Janet L. Wolfe ’59 Sidney M. Wolfe ’55 Jacqueline Dudek Woods ’65 Helen Worth ’31 Jifunza Wright ’75 Gerold Yonas ’57 Howard Yonas ’63 Pamela Cross Young ’71 Robert Zimmer ’70
As of March 2021