Inductee Profiles

1909 – 1986

Si Burick was sports editor and feature columnist for the Dayton Daily News for 58 years, writing four to seven columns each week, he covered everything from the Kentucky Derby to heavyweight championship fights, the Olympic Games to the University of Dayton football and basketball.

1926 – 2021

Iula O. Carter is a teacher, inventor, and writer with a special passion for nurturing creativity in children.

1921 – 2001

Ritter Colette had a career as a newspaper sports editor which lasted more than 50 years, through three newspapers: The Dayton Journal, The Dayton Journal Herald, and The Dayton Daily News.

1907 – 1988

Milton Caniff was a gifted adventure comic writer and artist.

1957 – Present

Nancy Cartwright is best known as the voice of Bart Simpson on the popular, long-running television show, The Simpsons.

1923 – 2012

Jeanne Comer founded the Dayton chapter of the Friendship Force, an international non-profit cultural organization working to promote world peace by creating friendships throughout the world.

1863 – 1944

Julia Shaw Patterson Carnell promised to construct a new art museum for the city of Dayton if the community would pay for its operations.

1883 – 1982

He was an attorney, Dayton Municipal Judge, Judge of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and
Judge and Chief Judge of the United States 6 th Circuit Court of Appeals.

1855 – 1940

Charlotte Reeve Conover was a distinguished author, lecturer, and historian, known for her pioneering studies of Dayton history and her generous support for others.