TSD Athletic Hall of Fame

• Athletic Hall of Fame
• Nomination Form
• Class of 2011
• Class of 2010
• Class of 2009
• Class of 2008
• Class of 2007
• Class of 2006
• Class of 2005
• Class of 2004
• Class of 2003
• Class of 2002
• Class of 2001
  • Robert Bogan
  • Joanne Carr
  • Stuart Eversole
  • Herb Henderson
  • Jim Johnson
  • Kirk Mee III
  • Joe Pyfrin
  • Kate Sciorra
  • Bill Swift
  • Kimberly Winkler
• Class of 2000
• Class of 1999
• THS Athletics

It is not exaggeration to say that if it were not for Mr. Bob Bogan, we probably would not be here tonight. There might not even be a Talawanda School District. It was through the vision and hard work of Mr. Bogan that the Talawanda District was organized and came in to being. He was the first superintendent of the new district that opened the new Talawanda High School in September, 1956.

Mr. Bogan is a graduate of Adams Township High School in Clinton County, where he played three years of basketball. He was team captain his senior year.

Mr. Bogan is a graduate of Wilmington College and the University of Cincinnati. In his second year of teaching at Penn Township High School, Mr. Bogan coached the girls basketball team to the Highland County championship! In 1942, his first year at Hanover High School, Mr. Bogan took over and coached the boys basketball team when the regular coach was called into the service during World War II.

But, Mr. Bogan is not being inducted into the Talawanda Athletic Hall of Fame because of his prowess as a player or his coaching success. He is being inducted because of his long term support of the Talawanda Athletic program. It was he who convinced several boards of education of the value of a strong athletic program. It was he who got the board to pay coaches and expand the program. It was he who got the board to install the first lights for night football. It was Mr. Bogan who convinced the school board to put in a running track. It is only fitting that Mr. Robert Bogan, the father of the Talawanda School District, be inducted into the Talawanda Athletic Hall of Fame!