SHARON — The Sharon High School Alumni Hall of Fame will honor its inaugural class of inductees over Labor Day weekend.

An induction ceremony brunch will be held at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 1 in the Sharon High School commons area. The public is invited and tickets are available at the high school or from any committee member.

Nine graduates are being inducted, including three posthumously.

Upon graduation as the Sharon High School 1968 class valedictorian, Susan Bolotin attended Cornell University where she graduated cum laude, with a degree in English. Bolotin began her career at Random House, later moving to Simon and Schuster, where she was editor-in-chief of Touchstone Books.

Other publications she worked for include The New York Times Book Review, Vogue, Self magazine, Seven Days magazine, LIFE magazine and Good Housekeeping. Bolotin has been the editor-in-chief of Workman Publications since 2000.

Bolotin is married to stage, screen and television actor John Rothman, with whom she has two children, Lily and Noah.

Edward P. “Ted” Cattron, a 1962 graduate, spent his entire career using science and technology skills in the service and support of the United States. Cattron won an appointment to the military academy at West Point and graduated with the class of 1966, taking a commission as an Infantry 2nd Lieutenant.

After serving seven years in the Army, Cattron resigned his commission as a captain in 1973 and accepted a job as a systems engineer with the Eastman Kodak Co.

Cattron retired as a systems management engineer with Eastman Kodak in March of 2002 and is now enjoying life with his wife Karen their two sons Mark and Matt and their families.

A 1938 graduate of Sharon High, the late Dr. Joseph Conti was a general practitioner in the Shenango Valley from 1957 to 2000. He maintained one of the largest medical practices in the valley and was one of the founders of the Shenango Valley Osteopathic Hospital, now UPMC Horizon’s hospital in Farrell.

Conti loved his profession and encouraged young people to enter the field of medicine. He was also the athletic physician for Sharon High football and basketball teams for 38 years.

Mark DuMars flashed on to the highest level of Pennsylvania high school basketball as a member of undefeated Sharon Tiger basketball team of 1957.

Upon graduation from Penn State University with an undergraduate degree in business, DuMars was employed in the Pittsburgh office of Price Waterhouse and Co. as a certified public accountant.

In 1981, DuMars joined Wesray, a private equity firm, and aided in the acquisition of the land mobile division of RCA Corp. and in 1983, formed Inglewood Associates Inc. as a buyout and restructuring firm. Today Mark and his wife live in State College, Pa., and have three grown children.

Born in 1914, the late Henry G. Evans grew up in a working-class family in Sharon.

A few weeks after graduating in 1933, he started working at Sharon Steel’s Farrell plant, where he worked for almost 60 years, attaining the rank of vice chairman and president.

Evans and his wife Catherine were married in 1945. Together they left a legacy of generosity in the Mercer County area matched by only a few.

James E. Feeney graduated from Sharon High in 1954. He served in the Army and was assigned to the Nike Guided Missile Facility from 1955 to 1958.

Feeney’s working experience started with Wheatland Tube Co., from which he retired as a senior vice president of operations. He was also chairman and CEO of Mutual Life Insurance Co. and served on the corporate board of directors of many companies including The John Maneely Co., Integra Financial Corp., Pittsburgh Tube Co., Protected Life Insurance Co., J & L Railroad, and Pyramid Industries and was a committee member on Pipe and Tube Imports.

A Sharon resident, Feeney and his wife Joan have three sons and nine grandchildren.

A 1954 Sharon graduate, Joe George graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard College.

George returned to Sharon in 1964 to try to revive what was then called George and Thomas Cone Co. and now is known as Joy Cone in Hermitage. The company has continued to grow and is now far and away the largest producer of ice cream cones in North America.

Residing in Sharon with his wife Ruthann, they have six children and nine grandchildren.

The late George McFadden graduated from Sharon in 1946 and was an outstanding example of an alumnus that affected the national and international stage.

Combining his military and civilian education, Maj. Gen. McFadden moved on to command a battalion of the famed Big Red One – 1st Infantry Division – in Vietnam, to work on national security issues at the National Security Agency and to direct NATO efforts in southern Europe for over three years as its commanding general.

Following his Army retirement, McFadden worked for several years as an executive in private industry with several leading companies, re-entering public service in 1989 with the Department of Energy as the Director of Office of Security Affairs before retiring again in 1999.

With his wife, Floretta, they raised six children as their travels took them to duty stations throughout the world.

A 1938 Sharon graduate and World War II veteran, Dr. Leonard Pleban has had a podiatry practice for 61 years.

From 1951 to 2002, “Doc”, as he is known to many, actively participated on the medical staff for Sharon High’s basketball and football teams without monetary compensation.

Pleban has been a guest speaker or toastmaster for athletic and civic functions as well as PTA groups throughout Mercer, Trumbull and Mahoning counties and still gets asked to inform, instruct or simply entertain.

Pleban has shared his strong faith, compassion and positive outlook on life with people in the Shenango Valley the last 91 years.

Info: Brian Kepple, 724-346-9869