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Scott Alumni Association Inducts Alumni into Hall of Fame
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
The newly revived Jesup W.
Scott High School Alumi Association inducted 12 of its
fellow alumni into the school’s Hall of Fame on Saturday,
March 11 during a ceremony and luncheon at The Pinnacle in
Maumee. The induction ceremony, the second one since the
Alumni Association was resuscitated last year, brought
together around 200 luncheon attendees.
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Former Scott Principals Johnny Hutton and
Treva Jeffries, current Principal Carnel Smith |
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Charlvon Gaston, 2016
Alumni Scholarship recipient, former football and baseball
player, Baldwin Wallace University sports management major
and football player, opened the luncheon as the master of
ceremonies and the invocation was offered by elder Michelle
Jeffries-Rhodes, Class of 1982 and the Homecoming Queen for
that class.
After lunch, Zahra
Collins, class of 2000 and chairwoman of the Scholarship and
Hall of Fame Committees, presented the 2017 scholarship to
this year’s recipients: Courtney Roberts, Ja’vionne Harris
and Diamond Fears.
The three scholarships are
in the name of the late Robert Brundage, PhD; Carnell Smith,
EdD, principal of Scott High School and the Collins Family.
Then came acknowledgement
of this year’s inductees. The honorees for 2017 are:
Gay Jean (Frye) Blossom,
class of 1953, former teacher, Girl Scout leader and
community volunteer; Helen Cooks, PhD, ’56, founder of the
University of Toledo’s EXCEL scholarship incentive program;
Edward Dixon, Sr, ’62, former director of the Scott concert
and marching band for 32 years; Richard Eppstein, ’65,
president of the Better Business Bureau of Toledo which
encompasses 24 counties of northwest Ohio and three of
southeast Michigan; Dr. Sharon Perkins Erel, MD, ’53, former
medical director of Hospice of Northwest Ohio and currently
active in the palliative care work in Turkey; Donna Lawson
Gregory-Cunningham, PhD, ’72, mental health counselor; Gail
Huffman-Joley, PhD, ‘ 55, former dean of the Indiana State
University College of Education; Treva Elise Jeffries, ’92,
science curriculum director for Toledo Public Schools and
former principal of Scott; Dr. Haig Kazazian, Jr. MD, ’55,
former professor of pediatrics and molecular biology and
genetics at Johns Hopkins Hospital; Janet Quinn-Wyatt, ’58,
first African-American Homecoming Queen and former Head
Start teacher; Joseph Oliver Sansbury, ’57, former teacher,
principal and administrator with several school districts
including TPS; Dvid Nathan Taylor, ’61, former union leader
including the president of AFSCME Local 7.
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