The Washington alumni hall of fame adds 11 inductees this week. Published Oct. 15, 2014 at 2:35 p.m.

Eleven accomplished alumni of Milwaukee Public Schools' Washington High School will be inducted into the school's Hall of Fame on Friday.

Inductees include a medical school professor, a popular radio host, a Marine veteran and championship NFL player, a restaurant owner, a member of the Milwaukee Board of School Directors, a longtime educator, a physician and medical researcher, a Broadway wardrobe supervisor, a well-known entertainer, a financial adviser once played by actor Will Smith and a scientist who worked on the famed Manhattan Project atomic bomb research.

Dr. Glen Barbaras, the Manhattan Project scientist who graduated from Washington in 1937, will appear via video conference at the Friday program set for 9:30 a.m., Friday, Oct. 17 at MPS' Washington High School of Information Technology, 2525 N. Sherman Blvd.. Media are invited to attend and should contact MPS media manager Tony Tagliavia to indicate interest.

In addition to Dr. Barbaras, new inductee and member of the Milwaukee Board of School Directors Mark Sain is expected to attend. Past inductee and former U.S. Rep. Abner Mikva is also scheduled to be present. Three of the inductees are being honored posthumously.

Each of the 11 new honorees will be inducted by a current student at Washington High School of IT. The school offers Information Technology coursework, college-level Advanced Placement courses, the acclaimed Project Lead the Way pre-engineering curriculum and a culinary program along with extracurricular programming including a robotics team and athletic teams.

The Washington High School Alumni Scholarship Foundation, which set another new record this year for the number of scholarships it provides to Washington grads, created the Hall of Fame.

"Our aim has always been to let current students know that other successful men and women have walked the halls of Washington," WHS Alumni Scholarship Foundation President Steven Brown said.

"The Hall of Fame and the Alumni Scholarship Foundation are impressive and important reminders to our students that, in addition to our educators and our students' families, there is another community of individuals who are committed to seeing them succeed," Washington Principal Tonya Adair said.

This year's inductees are:

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Manhattan Project scientist among 11 Washington alums set to join Hall of Fame