Campbell Alumni Hall of Fame recipients announced

Staff report

CAMPBELL

The Campbell Memorial High School Alumni Association Hall of Fame will host a reverse raffle dinner and award presentation from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday at Archangel Michael Center Banquet Hall, 401 12th St.

Tickets are $60 and can be purchased by calling the alumni office at 330-799-1232.

Three Campbell alumni will be inducted into the Hall of Fame during the event. They are as follows:

Florence (Katula) Galida, Class of 1952: Galida was the first vice president of the alumni association in its inaugural year and continued in that position until she assumed the role of president after the death of the group’s founding president, John Kovach. She is a founding trustee of the alumni association along with her husband and daughters, Gale, Lynn and Joan. She is also a member of the Athletics Hall of Fame.

Michael Maillis, Class of 1986: A lifelong resident of Campbell, Maillis is an attorney and marathoner. He is married to the former Celeste Koulianos, a 1987 Campbell graduate. He and his wife are founding trustees of the alumni association and fund the Michael Elias Maillis/ Nicholas Ellinos Memorial Scholarship, presented annually to a CMHS senior. Attorney Maillis is a member of Campbell’s Civil Service Commission and former member of the Campbell City Charter Commission, earning both appointments by vote of City Council.

William Suarez, Class of 1984: Dr. Suarez, along with his wife, Dolores Schrieber Suarez, also are founding trustees, scholarship sponsors and contributors to the alumni general fund. He is a pediatric cardiologist noted as the second person in the world to perform a catheter-based procedure on a 1.4 kilogram infant with heart disease, allowing the baby to avoid critical surgery. He has served as the chief of pediatric cardiology and cardiac intervention at Mercy Children’s Hospital in Toledo for 16 years.

The three inductees will join the Wasko family, inducted in 2010, in the hall of fame.