Students might not notice it but every day as they walk down the center hallway, they pass some of the best graduates Owensboro High School can claim. The Hall of Achievement recognizes some of the most important people that have come out of this school. It includes multimillionaire business people, mayors, politicians, actors, veterans, educators, scientists, and other influencers. It also includes Owensboro\u2019s first female lawyer, a US diplomat who spent decades helping maintain America\u2019s relationship with China, a World War II Navy commander, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, a Kentucky Supreme Court justice, our current mayor Tom Watson, and early NBA player Cliff Hagan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through a grant from the Hager Foundation in 2001, the Hall of Achievement was created to recognize distinguished alumni. In April of 2021, the Hall of Achievement will be inducting its eighth class. One of the people on the selection committee is social studies teacher Lori Thurman. She recently told the Messenger Inquirer<\/em> that the committee has tried to induct people from \u201ca variety of fields, from government, military, business, and education.\u201d It currently has 61 people, with each class ranging from 10-13 inductees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thurman says, \u201canybody can nominate someone,\u201d who meets the criteria of being \u201can OHS attendee at least 20 years ago, and demonstrated excellence in their profession and in their community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Students can get involved in this process too. As well as nominating people, student leaders will have the chance to attend the luncheon to recognize the class of inductees. Juniors and seniors will attend the actual ceremony. Also, some of the inductees will have the chance to talk with classes about their fields of study and their success. Thurman recalls one year a botanist was inducted and she spoke to many of the biology classes. Also, a Pepsi Co. Vice President spoke with many of the business classes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Thurman has said she has trouble deciding who was the most distinguished on the wall because \u201cthey are all so distinguished.\u201d She said pastor\/scientist George Moore stands out because he was the first African-American valedictorian of OHS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Thurman said she has been involved since the beginning of the Hall of Achievement and has enjoyed all of it because she \u201cenjoys celebrating what makes this place great.\u201d Thurman she would nominate Kevin Olusala, but he isn\u2019t old enough to be on the ballot yet. She would choose him because he has brought \u201cmuch notoriety to our community.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Any student who has any interest in nominating a person or being involved in the process, please talk to Mrs. Thurman about the process. Students might not notice it but every day as they walk down the center hallway,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":11579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[615,1,938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ohs-news","category-photos","category-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11580,"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions\/11580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaldevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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