Ten new members to be inducted into Warren High Schools hall of fame


Staff report

WARREN

Ten new members of the Warren High Schools Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame will be inducted at an awards dinner at 5 p.m. May 4 at Warren G. Harding High School.

Dinner is at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $30 and can be obtained by downloading a reservation form from the Warren City Schools website, www.warrenschools.k12.oh.us/news/?page_id=757.

This year’s inductees:

Curt P. Bogen graduated from Harding in 1982 and Kent State University in 1986. He received a law degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1989. He began his career as referee in the Trumbull County Probate Court and in 1991 founded the Law Office of Attorney Curt Bogen LLP.

Dr. Trinitia Y. Ash- Cannon graduated from Warren Western Reserve High School in 1989 and obtained her premedical degree from La Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y. In 2003, she earned her medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She is an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center and is one of only two microvascular surgeons in the state who performs complex reconstructive surgeries.

Nicholas G. Cassudakis graduated from Harding in 1975 and attended Carnegie Mellon University, earning a mechanical-engineering degree. He earned master’s degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Stanford Business School. He began work at Packard Electric Division of General Motors and has held the positions of chief of engineering, sales director and global business managing director. In 2007, he was transferred to Nagoya, Japan, and is now North American sales director.

Martin L. Cohen grad-uated from Harding in 1970, then attended Ohio State University, graduating in 1974 with a degree in education and a minor in psychology and business. He joined his family business, Mickey’s Army Navy in downtown Warren, where he continues to work today. He most recently partnered to form Sunrise Entertainment, with a summer concert series called River Rock at the Amp.

Comr. Daniel T. Dolan graduated from Harding in 1981 and enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1983. He flew as an enlisted air crewman on P-3 anti-submarine aircraft, and in 1990 was selected for a Navy commissioning program and attended the University of Memphis, where he earned a degree in history. His career as a Navy reconnaissance- aircraft mission commander took him to Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, where he logged 327 combat missions and 5,600 flight hours. He has master’s degrees from the University of Southern New Hampshire and the Naval War College and is author of numerous professional articles.

Bishop David L. Herron Sr., a 1974 graduate of Warren Western Reserve, earned a bachelor’s degree from the North Carolina College of Theology and founded the Monument of Faith Church of God in Christ in Warren in 1989. He has served at the state and national levels of the 6.5 million member Church of God in Christ, Inc. He was consecrated to the office of bishop in 2011 and was charged with the spiritual and administrative oversight of 55 churches in the Central East Diocese of Ohio.

Kurt C. Jackson, salutatorian of his 1986 Warren Western Reserve graduating class, accepted a Navy ROTC scholarship and graduated from Santa Clara University in 1990 with a bachelor’s degree in engineering. He was commissioned as an officer in the Navy and served in San Diego. While on active duty, he earned his master’s degree in management from the University of Redlands, graduating first in his class. He is now a certified financial planner.

Beverly Johnston Pariza graduated from Harding in 1954 and attended Youngstown College. She worked 51 years, including 14 years with Arby’s, Inc. in Youngstown and was controller of Allen and Mattingly Advertising in Atlanta. She has accumulated more than 6,500 hours of volunteer service at St. Elizabeth and St. Joseph health centers. She received a Lifetime Volunteer Award from President Barack Obama.

Retired Col. Richard R. Price graduated from Harding in January 1954 and from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1958. He was commissioned in the Air Force and became a fighter pilot in F-100 aircraft, flying in Japan, Louisiana, Turkey, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam. After graduate school at the University of Michigan, he taught at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He moved to the Pentagon and to NATO Headquarters in Belgium. He retired from the Air Force in 1982. He was employed by Grumman Corp. as manager of business development until 1993.

Mary Jane Carnahan Taylor (deceased) graduated from Harding in 1941 and Ohio State University in 1947. She was the first female class president at Harding and served on the Warren City Schools Board of Education from 1957 until 1969. She was the first woman executive at Packard Electric. She also was the first woman to serve as United Way chairwoman in 1981.

The Alumni Hall of Fame’s board of directors also will honor two distinguished faculty members. This year, they are Warren Western Reserve English teacher John Maggiano and Warren G. Harding English teacher Larry Lorelli, both deceased.

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