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Doug Baker will be inducted in the Cultural/Performing Arts
Category, but he certainly qualifies for at least two other
categories.
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Steven Jarvi
graduated from GHHS in 1996 and enrolled in the
University of
Michigan, where he majored in
Music and Conducting.
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This team earned District and Regional Championships while
setting, a then-school-record 20 wins, 25 games played and 1,269
points scored in one season.
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Steven Sluka, a 1927 graduate
of Grand Haven's Central High School, was selected as an
outstanding athlete as well as for his diligent and
successful efforts to further girls interscholastic sports
at a time when it was not mandated and for his many coaching
accomplishments.
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Les Runk was a member of the
1933, 1934 and 1935 State Championship basketball teams. He
was the team captain in his senior year and was known for
his deadly midcourt shot in 1935 that swished the net
without hitting the rim to beat
Muskegon in the first overtime, his
only points of the game.
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Coached by Steve Sluka, this disciplined, fiercely competitive
group of ballplayers, (and a little luck) won a state record of
56 games in a row - a record that stood for over forty years.
The team was inducted into the Muskegon Sports Hall of Fame.
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Coached by Gus Cohrs, this team established a record in the State of Michigan that has never been broken. It is the only time in the history of the state that a Class B team has ever won a Class A Championship.
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While a GHHS student, David
was a standout on the Science Olympiad team. At Dartmouth College he earned a B.E. in Chemical
Engineering and a B.A. in Physics, graduating summa cum
laude in both majors. For his thesis, David designed a
phase-locked loop controller for atomic force microscope.
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At GHHS, Jill Feyen was a key
member of the Science Olympiad team. She also played in the
orchestra and sang in the choir. She is proficient in piano,
dance, flute and voice. Jill earned her B.A. in Spanish from Calvin College in 2001, where she received the
Elsa Cortina Outstanding Senior Award.
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After
graduating from GHHS, James Timberlake continued his education,
earning his B.E.S. at the University
of Detroit and his M.
Arch. from the
University of
Pennsylvania.
At U Penn he teaches a
Master's Research Studio in collaboration with Stephan Kieran,
his partner in KieranTimberlake Associates LLP in
Philadelphia. James was a Fellow of the
American Academy
in Rome
and a former Associate of Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown. He is
currently a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and
holds the Max Fisher Chair at the
University of Michigan.
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Charles Conklin was the first
Grand Haven native to make the supreme sacrifice on the
battlefields of
France during World War I.
While serving with the 160th United States Infantry, Conklin
died from wounds received in action on May 7, 1918. The
Grand Haven American Legion Post 28 is named after Charles
A. Conklin.
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Gene Rothi graduated from
Grand Haven's Central High
School in 1940 and entered the Army Air Corps in 1942,
serving through 1945 as a pilot. He married his wife, Ruth,
in 1943 and they had four children. His nomination read,
"While his deeds and success as an athletic coach, teacher
and counselor deserve consideration, it was the way he led
his life and the positive influence he had on everyone he
met that set him apart a someone very special. Simply
stated, Mr. Rothi led his life by the Golden Rule."
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Don Constant graduated from Grand Haven's Central High School
in 1944 and served in the Army before enrolling in
Western
Michigan University and subsequently earning a
Master's Degree in 1951. He was an outstanding teacher of U.S. and World
History in Grand Haven from 1951-1986.
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Betty Nagy may have gotten a delayed start
in the GHAPS system, but she made the most of 27 years of
service, and she made a lasting impact on the way children
at GHAPS are taught.
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Gus Cohrs was born
in Chicago
and grew up in Muskegon, where he played sports. He went to
Hackley
Manual Training School, where he and woodshop
teacher, A.E. Jacobson, moonlighted as custodians. Both
names would eventually become part of Grand Haven history.
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Mention Science
Olympiad in Grand Haven, and the name Lane Smith immediately
comes to mind. Lane is a graduate of Muskegon High School and
Muskegon Community College and continued his education at the
University of Michigan and Western Michigan University.
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Mary A. White was
the first teacher in Grand Haven and Ottawa County. She was the
sister of Amanda White Ferry, wife of Rev. William Ferry, who
were the first permanent settlers in Grand in 1834. In 1835 Miss
White, then 22, was given permission by her father to go to the
Michigan Territory to visit her older sister Amanda with her
older brothers, Thomas and Luke White, but she never returned to
Massachusetts.
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