Inductee Profiles

1894 – 1976

Harry Baujan came to the University of Dayton (UD) in 1923 as head football coach, a position he held until 1946 when he became the school’s first full time athletic director.

1888 – 1980

Loren M. Berry started from virtually nothing to create the L.M. Berry Company.

1908 – 1991

Edward Breen served as mayor of Dayton, a Montgomery County Commissioner and U.S. Congressman.

1970 – Present

Hannah Beachler is an Oscar winning, American film production designer.

1940 – 1999

Jeraldyne Blunden was the founder and artistic director of the esteemed Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC), the world’s largest repository of reconstructed dance works by Black American choreographers.

1891 – 1986

Katharine Kennedy Brown was a prominent figure in national and local politics for over fifty years.

1908 – 1970

Arthur Beerman came to Dayton in 1930 to take a job as a merchandiser on the ground floor of the Home Store at Third and Main Streets.

1927 – 1996

Erma was a native Daytonian who made millions of people laugh with her down-to-earth humor.

1888 – 1987

Clayton Bruckner was the founder and president of the WACO Aircraft Company in Troy, Ohio, which provided hundreds of jobs in the 1920s through the 1940s.