| Induction Year |
Name |
Grad Year |
Biography |
| 1976 |
John William Chapman |
1911 |
Lieutenant Governor, State of Illinois 1952-60 |
| 1978 |
Abram Nicholas (A. N.) Pritzker |
1913 |
See Distinguished Alumni Bios |
| 1985 |
Frieda Bleicher Schaeffer |
1916 |
Soprano, Metropolitan Opera |
| 1988 |
Donald MacCorquodale, Ph.D. |
1917 |
Biochemist, Abbott Labs |
| 1986 |
William S. Paley |
1917 |
See Distinguished Alumni Bios |
| 1975 |
Vincent du Vigneaud |
1918 |
See Distinguished Alumni Bios |
| 1997 |
Helen Weber Matthews |
1918 |
1st Schurz Scholarship Winner (University of Chicago); English
and History Teacher at Schurz |
| 1991 |
Edna McRae |
1918 |
Ballet Teacher |
| 1975 |
Cushman B. Bissell |
1919 |
Civic and Business Leader |
| 1981 |
Emerson C. Itschner |
1920 |
Lt. General, U.S. Army; Chief of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
| 1985 |
Walter Schwimmer |
1920 |
Television Producer |
| 1975 |
John D. Binkley |
1924 |
President of Chicago Title & Trust |
| 1975 |
Paul I. Feltenstein |
1924 |
Attorney; Foreign Trade; Education |
| 1978 |
William Harrison Fetridge |
1924 |
President of The Dartnell Corp.; National Vice President of
the Boy Scouts of America, President for the U.S. Foundation for International
Scouting |
| 1975 |
Fannie Arnstein Hassler |
1924 |
City-Wide Youth Orchestra Founder and Conductress |
| 1984 |
Thaddeus V. Weclew, D.D.S. |
1924 |
Founder, Academy of General Dentistry |
| 1975 |
Jerome S. Weiss |
1924 |
President of the Chicago Bar Association |
| 1978 |
Robert Forrest Colwell |
1926 |
President and Founder of Colwell Publishing |
| 1978 |
Elder Olson |
1926 |
Poet; Author (16 major Literary Awards); Professor (Distinguished
Service) at the University of Chicago |
| 1994 |
Eugene Rappaport |
1928 |
Co-Founder of Roosevelt University; Founder of Rappaport Foundation |
| 1984 |
Christine Bolander-Olsen |
1929 |
Miss Television, 1934 World's Fair |
| 1976 |
Edward A. Johnson |
1929 |
Artist; Professor of Art at University of Georgia |
| 1975 |
Karl A. Kuchar |
1929 |
Civic and Business Leader |
| 1975 |
Sharry G. Umbeck |
1929 |
President of Knox College |
| 1981 |
Casimer John Borkowski |
1930 |
Scientist; Inventor |
| 1985 |
Anthony C. Karlos |
1930 |
President, Century Broadcasting Co.; Founder O'Hare Inn; Chairman
of the
Board for Grocerland Food Stores |
| 1978 |
Edward M. Moran |
1930 |
President of Moran Supply Company |
| 1996 |
Walter Schuessler |
1930 |
Owner of Schuessler Knitting Mills; Chairman of the Board of
New City
YMCA; Philanthropist |
| 1985 |
Mae Marty Stinespring |
1930 |
Public Service; Mental Health |
| 1985 |
Harry P. Stinespring Jr. |
1930 |
Public Service |
| 1976 |
Jerome W. Stone |
1930 |
Chairman, Stone Container Corporation; Chairman, Board of Trustees
at
Roosevelt University |
| 1988 |
Herman Kogan |
1932 |
Chicago Newsman; Journalist; Historian |
| 1975 |
John C. Suerth |
1932 |
Chairman of the Board of Gerber Products |
| 1978 |
Francis S. Lorenz |
1933 |
Treasurer for the State of Illinois; Director, Dept. of Public
Works and
Buildings; Judge, Illinois Appellate Court 1st District |
| 1985 |
Eugene J. Ranke, M.D. |
1933 |
Medical Researcher; Physician |
| 1997 |
Zena Sutherland |
1933 |
See Distinguished Alumni Bios |
| 1975 |
E. Stanley Enlund |
1934 |
President of First Federal Savings |
| 1975 |
Harry H. Semrow |
1936 |
Public Service |
| 1976 |
Adele V. Martinez |
1937 |
Director, Bilingual Ed., California State Dept. of Education |
| 1984 |
Donald Bloss, Ph.D. |
1938 |
Geologist |
| 1978 |
Adolf Dubs |
1938 |
U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan |
| 1975 |
Edmund Rojeck (Kyle Kimbrough) |
1940 |
Entertainer; Composer |
| 1998 |
John T. Case |
1941 |
WBBM News Reporter & Columnist for the Chicago Daily News |
| 1978 |
Thomas Eastham |
1941 |
Executive Editor, San Francisco Examiner |
| 1985 |
Dom Geraci (Don Jeris) |
1941 |
Orchestra Founder; 1st Trumpet, WGN (20 years) |
| 1999 |
Robert Edward Halberson |
1941 |
U.S. Naval Aviator; Government worker: CIA; Awarded Intelligence
Medal of Merit |
| 1978 |
George E. McNally |
1941 |
Chief Executive Officer, City of Mobile, Alabama; 1st Asst.,
U.S.
Attorney, Southern District of Alabama |
| 1996 |
Dr. Martin Sullivan |
1941 |
Chief of Plastic Surgery at Evanston and Shriner's Children's
Hospitals |
| 1978 |
Sheldon Harnick |
1942 |
Lyricist, "Fiddler on the Roof" |
| 1997 |
Rosemary Jannetto Wegner |
1943 |
Civic Leader |
| 1984 |
Mary Alice Parry Mott |
1944 |
Teacher of Physically Handicapped |
| 1988 |
Frank M. Gondela |
1945 |
Businessman; Civic Leader |
| 1997 |
Harry Markowitz, Ph.D. |
1945 |
See Distinguished Alumni Bios |
| 1996 |
John Audino |
1946 |
Trumpeter, The Tonight Show Orchestra 1965-1989; "Most Valuable
Player Award", National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), 1980 |
| 1990 |
Doris Leftakes |
1946 |
City-wide PTA Leader |
| 1975 |
Daniel T. Pecaro |
1946 |
President of WGN |
| 1999 |
Robert Ericsson |
1947 |
Judge for Circuit Court of Cook County |
| 1975 |
Ronald Kuehn (Ronnie Kole) |
1948 |
Concert and Recording Pianist |
| 1984 |
Malcom Daniel Lane, Ph.D. |
1948 |
Professor of Biochemistry at Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and New York
University School of Medicine; Chairman of Physiological Chemistry at John
Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| 1984 |
Wayne E. Spies |
1948 |
Pianist; Choral Director |
| 1991 |
Gene Sullivan |
1949 |
Athletic Director of DePaul University; Basketball Coach at
Loyola
University; Teacher; Civic Leader |
| 1975 |
Robert L. Fabian |
1950 |
Businessman; Youth Services |
| 1988 |
Daris A. Bauer |
1951 |
Educator; Executive Director of Lydia Home Association |
| 1976 |
Dr. Frank A. Rubino |
1951 |
Director, Neurology Department, Hines Veterans' Hospital |
| 1975 |
Gerald J. Peterson |
1952 |
Nuclear Engineer |
| 1999 |
Gloria "Tippy" Schweigerdt |
1952 |
National Baseball Hall of Fame Inductee, All-American Girl's
Professional
Baseball League |
| 1975 |
Richard Warner Best |
1953 |
Bass, Metropolitan Opera Company |
| 1975 |
Myrna Hansen (Martinez) |
1953 |
Actress |
| 1976 |
Edward A. Wells |
1953 |
Corporate Vice President of Jewel Foods |
| 1984 |
Ralph E. Christoffersen, Ph.D. |
1955 |
President, Colorado State University |
| 2000 |
Colonel Robert K. Kessler |
1955 |
FBI; Criminologist; Author |
| 1986 |
Marilyn Miglin |
1955 |
See Distinguished Alumni Bios |
| 1985 |
Brig. General David M. Maddox |
1956 |
Brigadier General, U.S. Army, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas |
| 1976 |
Major Richard H. Solem |
1957 |
U.S. Air Force; Member of Apollo 15 Recovery Group(1st moon
landing);
Instructor U.S. Aerospace Test Pilot School; Awarded Distinguished Flying
Cross Medal |
| 1991 |
Hadley Arkes |
1958 |
Distinguished Professor at Amherst College; Political Author
and
Columnist |
| 1976 |
Conrad A. Langenberg |
1958 |
Director of Photography WTTW, Ch. 11; Winner of 8 Emmy Awards |
| 1989 |
William L. Melsheimer |
1958 |
Junior High Principal |
| 1981 |
Johndale C. Solem |
1959 |
Director of Nuclear Physics Research, Los Alamos, NM |
| 1981 |
Donald C. Johanson, Ph.D. |
1959* |
Anthropologist; Archaeologist; Discovered "Lucy" (3 million
year-old skeleton) |
| 2002 |
James G. Panfil |
1960 |
Microprocessor Executive Wine Maker, Echo Vineyards |
| 1984 |
Sandra Romashko Zinzow |
1960 |
Writer; Publisher |
| 1976 |
James Alfred Johnson |
1961 |
President, Colby's Home Furnishings |
| 1989 |
Bruce DuMont |
1962 |
Broadcaster; Founder of The Museum of Broadcast Communications |
| 1989 |
Brig. General James H. Mukoyama Jr. |
1962 |
Brigadier General, U.S. Army Reserves |
| 1990 |
Doreen Baillargeon Rao |
1965 |
Musician |
| 1990 |
Bob Dekas |
1969 |
Sports Television Producer |
| 2003 |
Wendy Jo Harmston |
1969 |
Community Activist |
| 1981 |
Edwin Claudio |
1970 |
Attorney; Member of Chicago Board of Ed.; Co-founder of Women's
Professional Basketball League, Chicago Hustle |
| 1996 |
Vilma Colom |
1971 |
Alderman 35th Ward; Board Member of US Task Force for Hispanic
Affairs and Corporate Responsibility, Washington DC |
| 2003 |
Sean Post |
1990 |
Emmy Award Winner for Lighting (Oprah Winfrey Show) |
| * Last attended Schurz |
