Eight graduates or former students of Laurel Highland High School or its predecessors, North and South Union high schools, will be honored Sept. 8 as the first inductees into the Lifetime Achievement Hall of Fame.

The hall of fame is sponsored by the Laurel Highlands Academic Foundation. Its purpose is to honor former students of the three schools who have made an impact by distinguishing themselves in their career, community or society and/or brought recognition to the district.

We had a quality group of nominees, said Jes Hutson, who is on the hall of fame committee. We did try this first year to make sure we had candidates from all three schools.

District Superintendent Jesse Wallace said the hall of fame not only honors alumni, but may have a positive effect on current students as well.

Were pretty excited about it, said Wallace.

Wallace said the current students will have a chance to meet the alumni who are being honored.

It will give our students an opportunity to have some time with these people who are tops in their field. The people we are recognizing in the inaugural class are just amazing, Wallace said.

The first group to be honored includes the late Robert Eberly, a 1935 North Union graduate and a Fayette County philanthropist; and the late Harry Brownfield, a 1946 South Union graduate, who was an educator for 43 years in Fayette County.

Also being honored are:

n Dr. Randolph Nudo, a 1971 Laurel Highlands graduate. Nudo is the director of the Landon Center on Aging at the University of Kansas Medical Center, where he is also a professor in the department of molecular and integrative physiology and the Marion Merrell Dow Distinguished Professor in Aging.

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LH foundation to honor alumni