ELMHURST York High School alumni will be honored next week for their significant accomplishments.

The York Distinguished Alumni Program was launched last fall to recognized alumni who have distinguished themselves through extraordinary accomplishments, service and/or an outstanding contribution to society.

This year's Dukes of Distinction include 1962 York graduate John Baumrucker, MD, who provides medical care in Bolivia.

Former athletic director at the University of Illinois, Ron Guenther who graduated from York in 1963, will also be recognized along with John Hagstrom, class of 1983, a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Other honored alumni include former Chief Medical Officer at Children's National Medical Center in Washington D.C., Peter Holbrook, MD, who graduated from York in 1962, and Claudia Lucchinetti, MD, a full-time clinician, researcher and professor of neurology at the Mayo Clinic, who graduated from York in 1982.

Ken Paulson, a 1972 York graduate, was one of the founding editors of USA Today. He is now dean at the College of Mass Communication at Middle Tennessee State University.

Director of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Sidney Carne Wolff graduated in 1958 and is a founding editor of the Astronomy Educational Review.

York will also honor the late Charles Tilly who graduated in 1946 and contributed to the development of seven subfields of sociology during his career as a comparative and historical sociologist, analyst of social movements, a social theorist, political sociologist and methodological innovator.

The Dukes of Distinction will be honored at 6 p.m. Nov. 7 in the York Community High School Commons. The event is free and open to the public.

Honorees will speak and mingle with York students in various group settings Nov. 8.

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York alumni to be honored include USA Today founder, former Illinois athletic director