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The Bull Dog Alumni Association Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony honoring the 2023 Bull Dog Alumni Hall of Fame inductees Harold Force and Dr. Tami Stone Iorio can be Friday previous to Columbus North’s homecoming soccer sport.
Force, Class of 1969 and Iorio, Class of 1990, can be honored at a 5 p.m. reception adopted by a program that may even honor the 2023 Columbus North High School Outstanding Teachers of the Year.
Music can be offered by the twenty fifth Street Singers. This 12 months’s homecoming sport would be the Bull Dogs vs. Bloomington South.
Force has serves as president and chairman of Force Construction Co. and based Force Design, Inc. He acquired his bachelor and grasp’s levels from Purdue University in civil engineering and has skilled engineering registration in 13 states.
He acquired the Purdue Civil Engineering Alumni Achievement Award and the Purdue Civil Engineering Alumni Association Service Award.
Force led the design and development of Purdue’s Bowen High Performance Laboratory for large-scale engineering analysis.
He has served as previous president of the Indiana Construction Association and the Associated General Contractors of Indiana and is a previous chairman of the Columbus Economic Development board. He has additionally served on the IUPUC advisory board and director and government committee member of the Japan-America Society of Indiana.
Force stated he’s unsure what to consider the respect he’ll obtain Friday, including there are various alumni of each Columbus North and Columbus East excessive colleges which have achieved simply as a lot, if no more, than he has.
But he’s glad to see Columbus North recognizing their excellent lecturers of the 12 months throughout the ceremony as a result of most of those educators by no means obtain the accolades they deserve. Force says each excessive colleges within the metropolis have the flexibility to propel college students of any aptitude to do good issues – even nice issues.
“The quality of education in Columbus should never be taken for granted and should never be overlooked,” Force stated. “There are so many dedicated, capable teachers. I can list half a dozen high school teachers who changed my life in positive ways. My life experiences would have been very different were they not there at the time.”
Iorio is a doctor and associate at Northside Pediatrics Associates and serves as Bartholomew County historian. She graduated from Vanderbilt University (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude), Vanderbilt Medical School and the Vanderbilt pediatric residence program. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
She acquired the Resident Teaching Award at Vanderbilt and the Columbus Regional Hospital Physician Education Award.
She wrote the script and picked up the visible content material for the 5 half video sequence “It Began with Bartholomew” to commemorate Bartholomew County’s bicentennial and authored “Bartholomew County: Celebrating 200 Years 2021.”
She has served as an officer for the Bartholomew County Historical Society, Columbus Express Soccer membership, Bartholomew Consolidated School Foundation, and a board member for Healthy Communities Caring Parents Action Team, Columbus Parks and Recreation Youth Soccer board and the Columbus Regional Hospital Foundation.
Like Force, Iorio questions why she was chosen for such a prestigious honor by her alma mater.
“I was admittedly quite shocked, as most if not all of the previous nominees have achieved high levels of professional success,” Iorio stated. “I am very proud of my many years working as a pediatrician, but believe what led to my nomination was my passion for sharing local history and my volunteer work in the community.”
If an alumni gives an inspiration for a pupil to excel and discover their passions in life, Iorio says that’s fantastic.
“But if it comes instead from an amazing teacher who nurtures an interest, or from friends or family who encourage them to explore a dream, etc. — that’s equally as wonderful.”
Iorio says she hopes it’s the lecturers and college students who will set the excessive requirements for right this moment’s teenagers who attend Columbus North.
