Inductee Profiles

Active 1916 – 1929

The Dayton Triangles football team played in the first game for what is now known as the National Football League (NFL).

1926 – 2016

Dr. Richard A. DeWall invented the DeWall Bubble Oxygenator, the first workable, portable, heart-lung machine in 1955.

Ralph 1929 – Present
Christine 1934 – Present

Along with her husband Ralph, Christine Dull has dedicated her life to helping the cause of peace around the world.

1874 – 1960

Colonel Edward A. Deeds (1874-1960) was an engineer, inventor, industrial organizer, leader in the fight for flood control of the Miami Valley, and chief of aircraft procurement in a world war.

1936 – 2024

Phil Donahue nurtured a new format for television talk shows given-and- take with the audience.

1872 – 1906

Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first internationally renowned Black American poet and writer.

1907 – 1987

Joe Desch led a team from the National Cash Register Company that invented the Bombe, a World War II machine that supplemented the British Enigma Machine in breaking German encoded messages, and helped saved hundreds of Allied and American lives.

1861 – 1927

Electra C. Doren deserves credit for building the strong public library system that Montgomery County residents enjoy today.

1918 – 2002

Lt. Col. Charity Adams Earley was the first black officer in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), the only organization of black women to serve overseas during World War II.