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Dale Benington
Today Ed and I stopped by Start High School to pick up a Hall of Fame Nomination Form in an attempt to begin the process of nominating our classmate, Michael Bochnovich, but we are going to need some help finding all of the required information. It would also seem that there just might be a couple of issues that we might need some help in overcoming as well.
The first issue is that there are only 10 individuals each year that are inducted into the Hall of Fame, and of some concern, only 1 posthumous award may be presented at each ceremony. Because of that, I would like to do as much as I can to enhance Michael’s nomination.
Now I am guessing that many of you are thinking that with "Bones" being the original Spartan, it should be easy cheesy, a slam dunk. I would certainly like to think that too, but, in talking with the Start HS principal, he raised some issues that were like red waring flags.
According to him, a number of former Spartans, have assumed that all you needed was an impressive athletic or academic career, during your time as a student at Start HS, in order to be a successful candidate. Not so according to the principal, who tells us that the major focus of the HOF Committee is what you have done in your post high school years, for either Roy C. Start or the local community (the exact wording is, “… who have made significant contributions and accomplishments to Start High School and/or to the community”).
So if I am understanding this correctly, and we have a number of current classmates who are in the Hall of Fame, who are more knowledgeable on these matters than myself, we have the fact that Michael is no longer living, and that he spent very little of his post graduate years in the Toledo area, working against us.
We can talk more about this later, but I did want to motivate everyone to get on their thinking caps and perhaps help to find suitable application enhancements. Thanks for your time.
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