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Dr. Irwin M. Abrams
Major General Harry G. Armstrong, USAF, MD
Paul “Easy” Arnold
Harry C. Baujan
Clark E. Beck
Arthur Beerman
Phyllis G. Bolds
Oscar and Marjorie Boonshoft
The Honorable Edward Grimes Breen
Hallie Quinn Brown
Clayton John Bruckner
Si Burick
Milton Caniff
Lester LeFevre Cecil
William Hale Charch
Celebration Dayton ‘96
Charles Ritter Collett
Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, USAF
Gussie Lord Davis
Willis “Bing” Davis
Carleton William “Carl” Day
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC)
Dayton Marcos
The Dayton Triangles Football Team
Dr. Martin Robison Delany
Joseph R. Desch
Governor Mike DeWine
Phil Donahue
Donald J. Donoher
Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams Earley, WAC
Gerard “Fuzzy” Faust
The Honorable Judge Arthur O’Neil Fisher
Brother Raymond L. Fitz
Ermal C. Fraze
Major Dominic Salvatore Gentile, AAF
Harvey Dunn Geyer
Jerry Gillotti
Neal Gittleman
Roger Glass
Jessie O. Gooding
William G. Goodwin
John Gower
A.B. Graham
Richard H. Grant, Sr.
Barrett K. Green
Guided By Voices
Clark J. Haines
Jesse “Pop” Haines
The Honorable Congressman Tony P. Hall
Virginia Hamilton
Keith Harrison
Michael Hauer
Colonel Dean E. Hess, USAF
Clarence Charles Hobart
David L. Hobson
Dr. John Hole
Dale Huffman
Horace M. Huffman, Jr.
Dr. Lewis Albert Jackson
John L. Janning
Edward “Al” Johnson
Jacob O. Joyce
Milton Kantor
Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ
Paul Katz
William P. Lear
John Legend
The Honorable State Representative Lloyd E. Lewis, Jr.
Neal V. Loving
Frederic Charles MacFarlane
Herbert Woodward Martin
William Preston Mayfield
Harold “Hal” McCoy
Bette Rogge Morse
Phoebe Anne Mosey “Annie Oakley”
Margaret E. Peters
Airman 1st Class William H. Pitsenbarger, USAF
Dr. David H. Ponitz
Doris Ponitz
Sharon Rab
Police Sergeant Lucius J. Rice and Policewoman Dora B. Rice
Robert “Bob” P. and Norma Ross
Mac Ross
Mike Schmidt
Captain Rudolph “Shorty” Schroeder, USA
Josephine L. and Hermene Schwarz
Martin Sheen
John Q. and William C. Sherman
Ned Sifferlen
University of Dayton Men’s Basketball Program
Dr. Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain
Betsy and Leon Whitney
Jonathan Winter
General Janet Wolfenbarger, USAF
Mitchell “Booty” Wood
Jean V. Woodhull
Alice Woodward
Chief Rudolph F. Wurstner
Brigadier General Charles Young, USA
Eugene Edward Young, Jr.
Rosamond M. Young