Farrell Alumni Hall of Fame

12/23/2023

These are the plaques containing the names of all FAHF inductees. Two sets of the plaques are on display at Farrell High and in the adjoining Central Administration office area.

12/21/2023

Here is the page from today's Sharon Herald announcing the 2023 FAHF with abbreviated bios.

12/21/2023

Here are complete bios including current and FHS Reflector photos as part of our digital program. If you want to nominate an alumni for consideration for induction, scroll to the end of this digital program and print out the nomination forms and follow directions for submission.

06/21/2023

Although the organization will continue its role of honoring noted graduates, a ceremonial dinner will no longer be a part of the Farrell Alumni Hall of Fame’s annual selection of inductees.
“We will continue to honor successful Farrell alumni like we have been doing since 2005 in all the same ways, just without our annual dinner,” according to Jim Raykie, executive director of the FAHF. “Attendance at our dinner, very popular for graduates from the 1950s and 1960s and before, has experienced a decline for a number of reasons, lingering effects from Covid among them. It’s a trend we see continuing, given the age of our most loyal supporters, and we decided with much regret to no longer have the banquet be a part of the annual induction.”
Raykie added that the death of Ted Pedas, founder and source of inspiration for the Hall, played a big part in the decision to make the change.
Last year’s banquet, which was dedicated to Pedas, featured the unveiling of the Ted Pedas Lifetime Achievement Award. The award will continue to be given to inductees as part of their gifts from the Hall.
The class of of 2023 will be announced in December. “We may have eliminated our dinner, but our mission to honor Farrell High alumni in a meaningful and thoughtful way will continue, as Ted would want,” Raykie said.
Anyone wanting to submit a name for nomination should email it to executive secretary Judi Pendel at [email protected] or mail it to FAHF, PO Box 472, Brookfield, OH, 44403

11/03/2022

https://www.sharonherald.com/community/10-inducted-to-farrell-alumni-hall-of-fame/article_e0d9b462-5a03-11ed-b214-97c681db28e8.html

FARRELL – Ten alumni were inducted into the Farrell Alumni Hall of Fame at its 16th annual banquet Oct. 8 at the Park Inn by Radisson. The dinner was the

10/17/2018

Congratulations once again!

FARRELL – Ten alumni were inducted into the Farrell Alumni Hall of Fame at its 14th annual banquet Oct. 13 at the Park Inn by Radisson. The event attracted a

10/14/2018

2018 FAHF honorees
Alumni inducted into the Farrell Alumni Hall of Fame on Oct. 13 are from left, first row, Ronald Reed (retired teacher), Anthony Perfilio, Robert Russo (who accepted for his father, posthumous inductee Dominick A. Russo), and Lorenzo “Gene” Fesler. Second row from left, Stephen Banjak, Dr. April Torrence and Audrey Thurston, and back row from left, Presley Gillespie, Shane Wiesen and Phillip Cagigas.

10/23/2012

Ted Pedas, a 1956 graduate of Farrell High School, and his cousins James and Theodore Pedas of Washington D.C., both FHS grads, are the main financial supporters of the FAHF. The Hall of Fame is the brainchild of Ted Pedas. After 8 years, a total of 80 former students, teachers and administrators have been inducted into the FAHF.

10/23/2012

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FarrellMercerLate in the 1890's this land which lay south of Sharon was an untamed Indian territory whereShenango, an Indian Warrior, held domain over the hunting lands along the river which now bears his name.In 1897 South Sharon (as Farrell was formerly known) was a rustic undeveloped tract ofHick...

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