If you go
What: Stivers Hall of Fame ceremonies
When: Sunday, Oct. 10
Where: Presidential Banquet Center
Time: Doors open noon, luncheon 1 p.m., program at 1:45
Masters of Ceremony: Don Donoher and Bill Hosket
Tickets: $40
Contacts: Jim Morgan (291-0967), Bob Brown (890-0073), Paul Lewis (885-0362)
DAYTON — As the oldest high school in the Dayton area, it would seem obvious that Stivers School for the Arts also would have the most extensive athletic history.
Toward that end, and as a compliment to its outstanding trophy room, the school initiated an athletic hall of fame in 2006 and has inducted 16 or 17 former athletes every year since.
The masters of ceremony for this year’s Oct. 10 induction event at the Presidential Banquet Center will be former University of Dayton basketball coach Don Donoher and former Belmont and Ohio State player Bill Hosket, whose father is in Stivers’ hall.
This year’s Sweet 16 (17 if you count brothers John and Jim Lord) include several athletes who went on to stellar college careers and a few who played professionally.
One of those was Russian-born Max Padlow, a 1930 Stivers grad who not only played football and basketball in high school, but at Ohio State as well. He also played professional football with the Cleveland Rams, Philadelphia Eagles and original Cincinnati Bengals in 1937.
Padlow was a regular on the last two of Stivers’ three straight state championship basketball teams (and was all-tournament as a senior with Bill Hosket Sr. as a senior in 1930). He also was an all-city end on the football team in 1929 and 1930.
Padlow went on to play two years on the OSU football team and was a member of the 1933 OSU basketball team that shared the Big Ten title with Northwestern.
After he finished playing, Padlow became an inspector for the Ohio State Highway Department, but was killed in an auto accident on North Dixie Drive in 1971. He was 59.
Other inductees (graduation year):
Gymnast Patricia Greger Wikle (1964), city champ in trampoline four years.
Football player Terry Thompson (1955), who moved from Beavercreek for his senior year in 1954 and helped end a 49-game Chaminade winning streak in the City League.
Bobby Claude Williams (1957), who moved from Tennessee to Stivers as a senior in 1956 and later played at Central State before entering the Air Force, where he also boxed.
Shirley Turvey Griffith (1952), who played tennis, volleyball, basketball and field hockey, who is also in the Ohio Wesleyan University athletic hall of fame.
K Schnarre (yep, that's his first name) (1954) for three years of football and track.
Ora Rolfe (1957), who won seven varsity letters, including three in football and four in track.
The late James Fiorita (1938), who played football and baseball at Stivers and at UD just prior to World War II.
The late Marv Farrier (1928), who played football and basketball and was a senior on the 1928 state basketball championship team. He went to OSU for two years and played both sports before dropping out to play football with the old Dayton Triangles.
John and Jim Lord (1955), who transferred in as seniors from Mount Vernon High School and became starters on the 1954 City championship football team. Jim also was a dash man on the track team. Both played football at OSU and were part of the 1957 national championship team.
Dale Keiter (1955) earned seven letters in football, basketball and baseball.
Gymnast (and later archer) Ted Lewis (1962).
The late Herman Raiff (1924), a football and baseball standout in the early 1920s.
The late Bill Ginn (1944), a football, basketball and track star in the early 1940s who also played football and basketball at UD.
The late Herb Brown (1929), who played on the great basketball teams in the late 1920s and later at Ohio State.
The late Carlie Cramer (1929), a quarterback in the 1920s whose team lost only one game in three seasons. He also played basketball and was a football player at OSU.
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