MAYFIELD HEIGHTS -- Harold Mendes said hes just an ordinary guy, downplaying the achievements that led to his induction into the Cleveland Heights High School Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame.

It was my good fortune that my parents valued education and encouraged their children to enter college and to find their own way, Mendes said during his acceptance speech as one of 10 inductees into the schools hall of fame May 3 at Executive Caterers at Landerhaven.

They were great role models. They worked hard, they were successful, and this has enabled our family to honor their memory by funding multiple scholarships in their names at Heights High.

Mendes, a 1945 Heights High graduate who lives in Moreland Hills, said he and his wife, Barbara, recently met and interviewed students who applied for the Joseph and Mollie Mendes Memorial Scholarship, and they came away impressed.

The Tiger Nations best days are still ahead, he said.

Other inductees were Robert C. Gaede, class of 1938; Lois Klein Goodman and William E. Halal, both class of 1951; Susan Huddis Koppelman, class of 1958; Dr. Mark Lurie, class of 1962; Pamela Anne Miller, class of 1973; Brent E. Routman, class of 1974; Alisa Weilerstein, class of 1999; and Dr. Philip Yosowitz, class of 1959.

Gaede is deceased. Halal, Koppelman, Lurie and Weilerstein were unable to attend the ceremony.

Barbara Mendes received the Hilary Ancker Award, presented each year in memory of a former Heights High student who died from a rare lung disease in 1988.

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Jacob Stern, a senior at Heights High, presented Mendes, his great-uncle, for induction. Stern was one of the Imagemakers, a student committee that selects the inductees from nominations made by the general public.

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The Alumni Association of Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School has selected it's 2012 Alumnus of the Year.

Father Joe Uhen of the Santisimo Sacramento Parish of Piura, Peru has been selected to receive this years honor. He was presented with his award at the graduation ceremonies on May 15.

A native of Milwaukee, Uhen grew up in Oklahoma City and graduated from Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School in 1976. He attended the University of Notre Dame where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology in 1980. He later earned a Master's degree in Spirituality from the University of San Francisco.

In a parish that is home to over 40,000 people and 28 chapels, Uhen is the only pastor and priest. With help from two other retired priests, he holds up to 15 Masses each weekend.

Utilizing his connections from grade school, high school and university, Uhen started an outreach program for Peru's poor.

Since 1996 the program has helped built homes, kitchens, schools and chapels under the supervision of Uhen. But the biggest impact has been the support that Peru has received from his efforts.

Dozens of high school youth groups, medical missions, university volunteers and families have traveled to Pirua and helped thousands of Peruvians.

Another program Uhen started, called "Family to Family," has allowed the adoptions of needy families in Peru to more fortunate families in other countries. To date more than 1400 families have been adopted.

Each month, through a simple donation, families receive rice, blankets and lentils. The families also exchange photographs, send letters and build lifelong relationships.

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Firelands Regional Medical Center's School of Nursing celebrated the graduation of 43 students during its 95th commencement services at Sts. Peter and Paul Church.

Students graduating from the program received the following awards:

The Father Peter Brickner Award for the graduate who best-exhibited Christian principles in daily life was presented to Louise Cook.

Brian Seitz and Jimmy Meadows received the Excellence in Nursing Award. This award is presented to the graduate(s) who demonstrated outstanding ability in the care of patients and consistently acts as a patient advocate.

The Providence Hospital/Firelands Regional Medical Center Schools of Nursing Alumni Award was given to Gabrielle Gladieux and Claire Damschen. The Alumni Award is given to the graduate(s) who exhibits outstanding kindness and consideration in the nursing care of patients.

The Scholarship Award was given to Sarah Hasselbach for the Special Program and Gabrielle Gladieux for the LPN to RN program for having the highest cumulative grade point averages.

Ashleigh Moyer, Brandy Brinson, and Sheila Pfanner received the Leadership Award. This award is presented to the graduate(s) who has demonstrated outstanding leadership ability.

The Attendance Award was presented to Katy Angelo, Stephany Claus, Nancalyn Daniels, Jessica Didion, Michael Gedridge, Tammy Heal, Kristy Hurlburt, Ashleigh Moyer, Rebecca Petersen, Jennifer Quinn, Brian Seitz, and Mindy Singleton, members of the graduating class who have had perfect attendance during the entire program.

Mindy Singleton and Kelly Wolbert were presented with the Dorothy Rigoni Clinical Practice Award. Award recipient(s) are selected by the faculty and are those who have demonstrated outstanding patient teaching and nursing care of the obstetrical patient.

The Mary Alice Roeder Award was presented to Devon Old. Although not given annually, this award is awarded to a graduate by unanimous decision of the faculty for exhibiting the fine qualities of a nurse in addition to indefinable qualities that cause them to stand out among their peers.

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Cabrillo sports physicals

The Cabrillo Athletics Department, in conjunction with Valley Medical Group, will be holding its annual sport physicals for all incoming and returning athletes for the next school year, 2012-13.

The sport physicals will take place on Wednesday, May 30 beginning at 6 p.m. in the Valley Medical Group offices located at 136 N. 3rd St. in Lompoc.

All students interested in participating in athletics at Cabrillo High School must have a sport physical on file in order to compete. Interested athletes should bring with them their completed physical forms and $5 to cover the cost of the physical.

Physical forms may be picked up at the Cabrillo High School athletics office, the Cabrillo attendance office, Vandenberg Middle School. They can also be downloaded from the Cabrillo athletics website.

All proceeds from the sport physicals will be donated by the Valley Medical Group to the Cabrillo Athletics Sports Medicine Program.

Lompoc Babe Ruth clinic

Lompoc Babe Ruth is scheduled to host a baseball clinic on Saturday, May 26 at George Meyer Field in Lompoc.

The clinic is free to all current Lompoc Babe Ruth players and there is a fee of $20 for out of town or non-current players who would like to participate.

Former Lompoc Babe Ruth players who have continued their baseball careers at the college or professional level will be the instructors at the clinic. Current players will be able to learn all aspects of the game that will be important for their development.

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BUIES CREEK -- A decade ago, Jerry Wallace sat under a tree awaiting Campbell Universitys graduation ceremony, marveling at how much he had enjoyed his first year back in the classroom after more than 20 years as an administrator there.

He had no concern for the frantic preparations inside; his own plans included a monthlong beach vacation starting the next day. But that night, Campbells president paid him a visit. He was gravely ill and wanted Wallace to be the next leader of the private Baptist college.

Youve rested long enough, Wallace recalls then-president Norman Wiggins telling him.

Indeed, Wallace, now 77, hasnt rested much since. In 2003, he became the colleges fourth president, and in nine years he has overseen massive changes - including the addition of what will be the states second-largest medical school when it opens next year.

The school recently got the accreditation it needed to start recruiting its first class of students, and its 96,000-square-foot home is rising along U.S. 421 near Campbells main campus. It will be the first new medical school to open in North Carolina in 35 years and the first to train doctors of osteopathy, who tend to focus on primary care.

Wallace conceived the idea of a medical school only two years ago and championed it as a way to grow much-needed family doctors in the rural areas, where many of its students will train at area hospitals.

The $70 million project, funded with private donations, loans and cash reserves, will be the capstone of a tenure in which Wallace also revamped the universitys campus, moved its law school to downtown Raleigh, and added a series of new programs.

None of this has been easy, he says of the changes at Campbell. We have had our work cut out for us, but the good Lord has provided.

Campbell Trustee Bob Barker says the university has made tremendous progress under Wallace and credits Wallace with many of the strides the school made while he was provost under Wiggins.

He is just an innovative person, says Barker, a Campbell alumnus and owner of a Fuquay-Varina-based supply company. He amazes me all the time with how he comes up with these ideas and carries them through.

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LaMerne Kozlowski, 75, class of 1955, is one of the inductees into this years Sparks High School Hall of Fame.

LaMerne Kozlowski (Class of 1955)

LaMerne Kozlowski was born LaMerne Sommerhalder on March 20, 1937 in Eugene, Ore. She moved to Sparks in 1947. She attended Robert Mitchell Elementary School and Sparks Junior High, and she graduated from Sparks High School in 1955. She took two years of criminal justice at Truckee Meadows Community College. LaMerne married Gene Kozlowski on March 3, 1956 and had five sons: Mike, Casey, Kris, Todd and Scot. LaMerne was the PTA president at multiple schools, and the president of the Sparks Advisory Council. LaMerne worked a total of nine years with Jacks Carnival. Along with Bill Vallandingham, she developed a bicycle safety program that extended to all of Washoe County for which she received an award from the Washoe County Teachers Association.

She remains involved in SHS, having attended all 11 of the Quarter Auctions and served on the Hall of Fame Committee for three years. Her volunteer activities extended to sorting books for Friends of Washoe County. LaMerne worked in the post office, for Shellys Hardware and as a vault supervisor at Sierra Sids Casino. Since casinos werent really her thing, she started working for the state in the welfare department. She worked there for 17 years until retiring from Investigations in 2002.

Now she spends her time supporting her favorite hockey team, the Pittsburg Penguins, camping at Pyramid Lake with her family and friends, playing cribbage and bunco with friends, reading crime novels and attending Broadway Comes to Reno. Her favorite musical artist is Neil Diamond and she loves to travel. Most of all shes proud of her children and grandchildren and the people theyve become.

Marvin Moss (Class of 1948)

Marvin Moss was born on May 27, 1930, in Ogden, Utah. He moved to Sparks at the age of six months with his parents George L. and Veda Moss. He attended Sparks High School from 1945 to 1948. Moss was senior class president, on the Debate Team and the Boys Glee Club, part of the Boys Block S, and involved in a variety of theatrical events. He earned three letters in sports: football, basketball and track. Moss graduated in 1948 in the top five of his class. Afterwards, he attended the University of Nevada, Reno, where he joined the ROTC team and earned his BA in history.

Marvin Moss served two years with the United States Army as an officer in South Korea, 28 years in the U.S. Army Reserves and retired as a full colonel. He also taught as a member of the Command & General Staff College. In 1954, he became a sixth-grade teacher at the Sparks Intermediate School. In 1959 he earned his masters in education and became the principal of South Side Elementary School. The next year he became the principal at Veterans Memorial Elementary School. Moss became the assistant superintendent for the Washoe County School District in 1975 and, in 1982, he earned his doctorate in education. That same year Moss was appointed as superintendent; Moss was twice named Outstanding School Superintendent in Nevada.

Moss is a devoted father and husband. He married his high school sweetheart, Barbara Albee. They had eight children. Moss later married Dixie Moss, and now has two step-sons with her.

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HER parents noble move to sell a family property to put her through medical school was the best gift ever for Dr Siti Fatimah Zahra Razali.

And in return, the 24-year old from Negri Sembilan, toiled hard and burned the midnight oil to pursue her medical degree.

Her hard work and sheer determination eventually paid off when she emerged as the best Malaysian medical student upon completing the twinning programme with Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) and Allianze University College of Medical Sciences (AUCMS).

Dr Siti Fatimah, who was recently honoured at a Doctors Oath-taking ceremony in AUCMSs main campus in Kepala Batas, north Seberang Prai, said she attributed her success to her parents sacrifices.

My parents sold a piece of land belonging to the family to ensure that my dream of becoming a doctor can be fulfilled.

I am extremely grateful for their sacrifices and it is time for me to repay their kind deeds now, she said.

Dr Siti Fatimah was among 57 graduates who recently completed the programme where the students had their pre-clinical studies for two-and-a-half years in USU, Medan, Indonesia and their clinical studies for two years at AUCMS branch campus in Kangar, Perlis.

Her mother, Kholilah Amin, 49, a secondary school counselling teacher, said it had always been her daughters dream to have the title of Dr before her name, be it as a medical doctor or as a doctorate (PhD) certificate holder.

Another top student, Dr Nareshraja Janardanan said he had always fancied a career as a medical practitioner since he was young.

My parents not only inspire me, but they are also the driving force behind my success.

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By MARLA K. KUHLMAN

ThisWeek Community News Wednesday May 9, 2012 2:33 PM

The Gahanna-Jefferson Education Foundation (GJEF) celebrated alumni and district builders of excellence May 4 by introducing and inducting the 2012 Cornerstone and Alumni Hall of Fame awardees.

The Gahanna Lincoln High School (GLHS) Alumni Hall of Fame was created to recognize graduates who, through their performance and achievement, brought credit and honor to themselves and to GLHS, said Dale Foor, GJEF president.

This year's awardees include:

* Brad W. deSilva, M.D., an assistant professor with the OSU Medical Center (GLHS class of 1994).

* Connie DeJong, an Ohio State University arts scholar coordinator and executive director of the Global Gallery (GLHS class of 1990).

* Matthew John Markling, former member of the Lakewood (city) Board of Education and general counsel for the Ohio Educational Service Center Association (GLHS class of 1989).

The Cornerstone Award is an annual recognition of builders of excellence, Foor said. Recipients must have been associated with the school district for a minimum of 10 years as an employee or in other official support roles. People may be nominated or inducted posthumously.

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The 544 Education Foundation Board honored Gary Clambey and Anthony Preus as their 2012 Distinguished Alumni during a ceremony Monday night at Kennedy Secondary School.

Clambeys career in science and education traces its roots to time spent growing up on a family farm, attending a rural elementary school and spending hours in the science alcoves of the Fergus Falls Library.

A 1963 graduate of Fergus Falls High School, he attended Fergus Falls State Junior College, North Dakota State University (BS and MS) and Iowa State University (Ph.D.) He was a preventive medicine specialist with the U.S. Army Medical Department and has spent nearly 40 years teaching more than 11,000 students at NDSU at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Clambey has earned multiple awards for teaching and service contributions, including NDSUs Distinguished Educator Award.

He and wife Susan, a 1965 FFHS graduate, have two sons, Eric and Bryce.

Preus, Class of 1954, was the first Rhodes Scholar from Fergus Falls. He graduated from Luther College and attended Trinity College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship, earning a second BA and an MA.

He continued at The Johns Hopkins University, writing his Ph.D. dissertation on Science and Philosophy in Aristotles Biology. Since 1964, he has taught at Binghamton University in Binghamton, N.Y., where his areas of specialty and research include ancient Greek philosophy, classical languages and medical ethics.

Preus is secretary of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy and has edited and written numerous works, including The A to Z of Ancient Greek Philosophy. He is married to Meredith Pell Preus and has three children, Christian, Alexander and Caroline (Linka).

The two men were inducted into the Fergus Falls High School Hall of Fame Monday night during the Senior Recognition/Hall of Fame Banquet at Kennedy Secondary School.

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