Fairborn City Schools Hall of Honor Candidates 2019
Scott W. Bauer is a 2000 graduate of Fairborn High
School. He holds a Bachelor of Science
in Marketing and a Masters of Business Education from Wright State
University. He was a financial specialist
and cost analyst for the MQ-1 Predator at Wright Patterson Air Force Base and
then transferred to the Secretariat of the Air Force for Financial Management
and Comptroller Directorate at the Pentagon in the Program and Budget
Integration Division, where he was Chief of the Exercise Branch. He is currently Director, Acquisition Career
Management for the 4th Estate (defense agencies, field activities outside of
the military departments) at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia. He was presented with the Air Force Civilian
Achievement Award and Exemplary Civilian Service Award medals and in 2017
received the American Society of Military Comptrollers National Resource
Management Award.
Robert C. Carico is a 1966 graduate of Fairborn High School and attended The Ohio State University and the Ohio School of Banking. He worked at W. T. Grant Company and then began a banking career at Farmers and Merchants Bank and later US Bank, where he was the manager of the Fairborn Central Office. He is currently employed at Airplane Plastics. He has been a Board Member and Officer of the Chamber of Commerce, Ambassadors Club and Miami Valley Military Affairs Association and has been active in the Rotary Club, where he was named a Paul Harris Fellow, served as a United Way Campaign Chairman and was a member of the Fairborn Community Improvement Corporation and the Greene County Convention and Visitor’s Board. He also served on the Fairborn Board of Education and as treasurer of school levies. He is the recipient of the Chamber Award of Excellence.
Michael G. Haisley is a 1967 graduate of Fairborn High
School and served two years in the U.S. Marines Corps. He began working on engines while still in
high school and in 1979 began a thirty-year career as a professional mechanic
on Indy Cars and Indy Light Cars. He is
one of the few mechanics in the modern era of Indy Racing who is able to work on
all aspects of the cars. In 1996 he was
employed as a transmission specialist at Treadway Racing and worked on the cars
that took first place, with Arie Luyendyk, and second place, with Scott
Goodyear, in the Indianapolis 500, setting speed records that are listed in the
Guinness Book of World Records. He
finished his racing career building engines for Indy Cars and NASCAR teams at
Menard Racing. He is a charter member of
Abiding Christ Lutheran Church and a member of the Old Timers Club at the
Indianapolis Speedway.
Michael J. McCarthy is a 1987 graduate of Fairborn High School. He was in the inaugural class of the Society of Yeager Scholars, studied at the University of Salzburg, Austria and Christ Church College, Oxford University, England, and received a Bachelor of Science and a Master of History from Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia. He is the Chief Information Officer for both the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and Marshall Health. He had articles published in the Garland Publishing’s Encyclopedia
of World War I, History Microcomputer Review and Medical Science Educator. Since 2010 he has served as the State Referee
Administrator for West Virginia on behalf of the U.S. Soccer Federation and the
West Virginia Soccer Association. He
served on the U.S. Soccer task force in 2018 and is a member of the U.S. Youth
Soccer East Region Referee Committee.
David S. Pickerell is a 1974 graduate for Fairborn Park Hills High School. He graduated from West Point Military Academy with a degree in Chemistry, earned a Master of Chemical Engineering from the University of Louisville and served eleven years in the Army Cavalry. He is known worldwide as a master whiskey distiller. He traveled around the world for Ro-Tech and then spent fourteen years at Maker’s Mark as Vice President of Operations. He formed Oak View Consulting Company and was involved in building or helping over 100 distilleries, such as WhistlePig, on six continents. Often called the “Johnny Appleseed” of American Whiskey, his last launch was Metallica’s Blackened Whiskey, where the labels say: “Re-mastered by Dave Pickerell”. He was director of the American Craft Spirits Association and called a true icon in the distiller world. He died on November 1, 2018.
Gloria (Jeanne) Chittum Porter is a 1964 graduate of Fairborn High School and attended Sinclair Community College and Central Arizona College. She was the owner of Porter Properties in Casa Grande, Arizona and Oak Creek Realty in Dayton and the public information officer for the City of Fairborn. She was involved in creating the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) programs for Greene and Warren Counties and founded Women in Business Networking (WiBN), the Dayton region’s leading organization for women in professional careers. She is the author of SUCCESS
Powered by Relationships. She chartered the Dayton and Xenia Toastmasters Club and was a Board member for the Dayton’s Women’s Club, the Ohio CASA Association and the Dayton YWCA. She is the recipient of numerous awards honoring her for dedication to women and children’s causes.
Sharon Honaker Rab is a 1964 graduate of Fairborn High
School and received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Miami University and a
MEd in Curriculum and Supervision from Wright State University. She taught honors classes at Kettering
Fairmont High School for thirty years and also taught courses at Miami
University and the University of Dayton.
She served on the Board of Trustees for Muse Machine and The Associate
Board of the Dayton Art Institute. She
is the host of the television show, Writer
to Writer, author of scores of publications and the recipient of numerous
honors and awards including an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Wright
State University. In 2006 she founded
the prestigious Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the only international literary
award to advance peace through literature.
This prize has been awarded to over 72 literary luminaries.