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Anderson Community Schools (ACS) Hall of Fame, a non profit program of the Anderson Educational Foundation (Anderson Indiana), seeks to celebrate the successful lives of ACS graduates. Approximately every two years the "new class" is nominated and inaugurated.

2010 class:

Larry Thomas: Anderson High School 1939, highly decorated U.S. Air Force colonel who flew in 3 wars (WW2, Korea & Viet Nam,

Melvin Biddle: Anderson High School 1941, World War II, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient

Steve Short: Madison Heights High School 1968, Command Sergeant Major of the Army

Scott Craig: Anderson High School 1977, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy

Carl Erskine: Anderson High School 1945, pitcher for Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers, Banker, Community activist, Author

John Wilson: Anderson High School 1946, Harlem Globetrotter, educator

Joyce Foggs: Anderson High School 1948, Anderson Community Schools educator

John Woodall: Anderson High School 1959, Physician - Family Practice, US Army Veteran, Community Volunteer

Mary Jo Lee: Madison Heights High School 1965, Director, Alternatives Inc.

J.R. Rosencrans: Anderson High School 1966, Marine veteran, Anderson IN fire chief

Bobbette Snyder: Anderson High School 1967, Director emiritis of the Leadership Academy of Madison County, civic volunteer

Ray Tolbert: Madison Heights High School 1974, 1977 Mr. Basketball, NBA player

Don Shanks: Madison Heights High School 1976, ACS custodian,

Ericka Flye: Madison Heights High School 1988, Indianapolis ABC anchorwoman

Brian Hammons: Highland High School 1979, Golf Channel Anchor, former sports reporter,

Andrea Morehead: Highland High School 1986, news anchor

Ben McCurdy: Highland High School, Physician and Surgeon

2012 Class: http://www.acsc.net/Portals/ACSC/District/docs/aef2012acs_hof_booklet.pdf

2015 Class: http://www.acsc.net/Partners/AndersonEducationFoundation/ACSHallofFame/tabid/64847/Default.aspx

Rebekah Baker: Highland High School, 1983, faculty member in Education at Anderson University

James Bannon: Anderson High School, 1953, executive editor of The Anderson Herald Bulletin daily newspaper. Long time community cheerleader and activist.

Greg Bell: Madison Heights High School, 1980, a musical producer for the Walt Disney Company. He's worked for world-famous musicians and has won an Emmy.

Timothy Boyd: Anderson High School, 1975 — He was the first person to complete the school's apprenticeship program, and the first African-American supervisor of plumbing at the school. He began working for Anderson Community Schools in 1977.

Boyd is an active church volunteer and youth baseball and basketball coach. He initiated an "open gym" at his church, where community children can learn sports; he's also established baseball and bicycle clinics. In the bicycle clinic, he teaches youngsters to to rebuild bikes and donates them to disadvantaged children. In addition, he's president of the Old School Riders Motorcycle Club.

Beth Clark: Anderson High School, 1971, former teacher, principal, human resources manager (2009), and assistant superintendent at Anderson Community Schools.

Ronald David: Anderson High School, 1949, U.S. Army veteran, Businessman and life long local coach & officiating official.

Chad Gooding: Highland High School, 1993, currently vice president of Indianapolis based DEEM.

Don McAllister: Madison Heights Heights High School, 1969, founder of National Veterans Historical Archive, Herald Bulletin columnist and author of 4 novels:

Mike Tackett: Anderson High School, 1975, former Washington bureau chief for Chicago Tribune, former political analyst for C-Span. former managing editor for Bloomberg L.P. currently holds the position of deputy political editor for The New York Times.

Ellen Ward: Anderson High School, 1949, 25 year classroom teacher for Anderson Community Schools.