2024 Inductee
Tiffany Rank
30th Annual Hall of Honor Set for April 2024

The Sidney City Schools Hall of Honor Committee proudly announces the HOH Class of 2024. Those being inducted include community leader and local businessman, Michael Lochard (SHS 1986); retired teacher and award-winning coach, Jim McCracken (SHS 1974); inspiring educator Tony Wagner; and renowned ornithologist Farida Wiley (Orange Township School). 

30th Annual Hall of Honor Set for April 2024
Tiffany Rank
Star athletes and outstanding educators to join ...
2020 Inductee
Tiffany Rank
Emmy-award winning producer to join Hall

The Sidney City Schools Hall of Honor will add four new inductees on Friday, April 22, 2022, at 7:00PM in the Sidney High School auditorium to celebrate 27 years of the Hall of Honor and increase membership to 135 since its founding. Of those to receive the highest honor bestowed by Sidney City Schools is Erin Johnson, 4-time Emmy-Award-winning Executive Producer of Entertainment Tonight.

Emmy-award winning producer to join Hall
2020 Inductee
Tiffany Rank
Longtime Educator and Coach to join Hall of ...

The Sidney City Schools Hall of Honor will add four new inductees on Friday, April 22, 2022, at 7:00PM in the Sidney High School auditorium to celebrate 27 years of the Hall of Honor and increase membership to 135 since its founding. Of those to receive the highest honor bestowed by Sidney City Schools is dedicated former educator and coach for Sidney City Schools, Eric “Rug” Harlamert.

Longtime Educator and Coach to join Hall of Honor
2020 Inductee
Tiffany Rank
2020 Induction Ceremony Set to Take Place April ...

After a long pause due to the ongoing pandemic, Sidney City Schools is pleased to announce the 27th annual Hall of Honor Induction Ceremony is set to take place Friday, April 22, 2022.

The Hall of Honor Committee has reconvened to set plans to honor those from 2020, including Congressman Warren Davidson (SHS 1988), Retired Sidney High math teacher and boys soccer coach Eric Harlamert (SHS 1976), Emmy Award-winning executive producer Erin Johnson (SHS 2000, co-valedictorian), and the late Rob Joslin.

2020 Induction Ceremony Set to Take Place April 2022

2017 Inductee

The Late Ken McCormick Joins the Hall

The Late Ken McCormick Joins the Hall

Marlin Shamblin and Ken McCormick were good friends from their days at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Shamblin became a Spanish teacher at Sidney High School and urged his social studies counterpart to join him in a community he and his family had come to enjoy and call "home."

In 1968 the two were reunited until retiring from teaching. Shamblin gets credit not only for bringing a fine educator to Sidney but also a caring person who would become a full participant in school, church, and community.

On Friday, April 21, at 7:30pm in the SHS auditorium, the late Kenneth W. McCormick will receive the highest honor bestowed by the school district when he's inducted into the Sidney City Schools Hall of Honor along with three alumni, Susan L. Russell (SHS 1970), Martin L. "Mick" Given (SHS 1975), and Thomas P. Milligan (SHS 1978). A gymnasium reception will follow with both events open to the public. 

Local Community Leader Joins Hall

Local Community Leader Joins Hall

Even when initially working away from Sidney following his college days, Thomas P. Milligan always knew that his family's businesses could still hold his future. When his uncle Sam passed away, his father (Patrick H. Milligan, SHS 1946, HoH 1999) told Tom that the time was right if he wanted to return home. "As my dad often liked to say, I came home on 8/8/88 and that's easy to remember," said the 2017 inductee into the Sidney City Schools Hall of Honor.

A former Hall of Honor committee member and chair with degrees from Ohio Wesleyan and Columbia Universities, Milligan (SHS 1978) will be joined by Susan L. Russell (SHS 1970), Martin L. "Mick" Given (SHS 1975), and the late Kenneth W. McCormick (Teacher 1968-93) at the induction in the Sidney High School auditorium on Friday evening April 21 at 7:30pm. A gymnasium reception follows and both events are fully open to the public.

She Dared to Wear Pants

She Dared to Wear Pants

Susan L. Russell (SHS 1970), a National Merit Scholar, Editor of the school newspaper, and the first girl who dared to wear pants to school, will come home to Sidney High School to be inducted into the Sidney City Schools Hall of Honor on Friday, April 21, at 7:30pm. 

She will be joined by Martin L. "Mick" Given (SHS 1975), Thomas P. Milligan (SHS 1978), and the late Kenneth W. McCormick (Teacher 1968-93) in raising Hall membership to 123. The public event will be followed by an open gymnasium reception.

Local Business Leader Joins Hall of Honor

Local Business Leader Joins Hall of Honor

Four new inductees will joining Sidney City Schools Hall of Honor. Among those being inducted is Martin L. "Mick" Given (SHS 1975). Given is the President of Ferguson Construction in Sidney. Currently notable in his community resume is his leadership with the highly acclaimed Workforce Partnership program in the Sidney City Schools.

Mick Given (SHS 1975) will be joined by fellow alumni Susan L. Russell (SHS 1970) and Thomas P. Milligan (SHS 1978), along with the late Kenneth W. McCormick (Teacher 1968-93) as the newest inductees to the Sidney City Schools Hall of Honor on Friday, April 21 at 7:30pm in the high school auditorium. A reception will follow in the adjacent gymnasium with both events fully open to the public.