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Viking Alert The Newsletter Published by The North Canton Alumni Association - Fall - 2019 Hall of Distinction Inductees - Class of 2019 We Proudly Recognize North Canton City School Graduates, Employees and Community Leaders for their Outstanding Contributions to Their Community and Beyond Our annual Hall of Distinction Banquet was held on Wednesday, September 25th to honor those who have continued to show outstanding service and accomplishment in their lives and chosen professions. Here are their stories . Engine property on Market Street a trustee and substantial donor to South to save on his railroad shipping what is now the University of Mount costs. Union. By 1871, C. Aultman and Co. had Cornelius retired to bed Christmas become the largest reaper and mower evening in 1884 with a headache company in the country and employed and a pain in his side. He died at one 550 workers in Canton. o’clock in the morning at the age of 57. Cornelius also ventured into other The Canton Repository reported that businesses. He co-founded Akron “the active pursuits of business had Iron Co. with John R. Buchtel, plus he suspended and sadness inexpressible founded Canton Electric Light and had rested upon all.” Within 10 years Power and the Canton Street Railway. of his death, his widow, Katherine, In 1863, he helped organize the First and daughter, Elizabeth Harter, Cornelius Aultman National Bank of Canton. Shortly after founded Aultman Hospital in his Cornelius Aultman was born his daughter Elizabeth married one memory. on March 10, 1827, in a log cabin of his plant managers in 1869, he gave At his funeral, William McKinley just west of Osnaburg to Jacob and responsibility of the bank to his new described Cornelius as “a self-made Elizabeth Tawney Aultman. In 1828, son-in-law, George D. Harter. man, famous by actual and useful the family moved to Uniontown and Cornelius was friend to four sitting achievements, whose word was coin, within the year Cornelius’s father had presidents – Grant, Hayes, Garfield, and whose name was a tower of passed away. His mother remarried the and Arthur – and worked on William strength in all the industrial and widower John Miller on Dec. 15, 1830, McKinley’s congressional campaigns. commercial activities of our city, and they blended their two families Later, when McKinley ran for presi- county, state and country.” together. Cornelius became close to dent, he did so from the front porch his step-brother Lewis Miller (a 2017 of a house Cornelius lived in while Hall of Distinction inductee) and they his mansion was being built. Despite later became business partners. his connection to politics, he declined Cornelius began his career as a the encouragement of the Republican wheelwright in Greentown, then Party to run for governor of Ohio. moved to the Wise and Ball Machine shop He founded the Canton Public making farming equipment. After a brief Library, served as president of the business venture in Illinois, he returned Canton School Board, and worked to to Greentown where he established rebuild the First Methodist Church – Ball Aultman and Co., makers of six now the Crossroads United Methodist styles of reapers. Church – at 120 Cleveland Ave. SW In 1852, Cornelius moved his company after it burned the second time. He from Greentown to Canton and built chaired the committee that built the Steve Gregory his factory on what is now the Hercules Stark County Courthouse and was (continued on page 2) Online Version PDF.indd 1 10/23/2019 2:42:23 PM Page 2 Viking Alert - Fall - 2019 Steve Gregory’s family moved to raised. Steve was honored alongside Virginia. Ohio in 1957 where Steve attended his father and Lisa by American Bill settled into a private practice North Canton Schools. Fundraising Professionals in 2014. in Salisbury, North Carolina, which In his sophomore year of high he maintained until 2011. Since then, school, Steve’s parents enrolled him he has been an Assistant Professor of in The Winchendon School, a prep Orthopedics at Wake Forest Baptist school in Massachusetts. He graduated Hospital and Adjunct Professor at from there in 1969. Steve served in the Salisbury Veterans Hospital. He the army from 1970 to 1971 before has been completely retired since the coming home to work for the family beginning of 2019. business. Steve has worked at Gregory Bill has been involved outside of Industries for 46 years and currently the world of medicine. He has been a serves as Chairman of the Board. member of the Rowan County Chamber Steve has served on the Aultman of Commerce, President of the Hospital Board since 1999. He was Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall the chairman of the board from of Fame, President of the Local Board 2011-2013 and has served on various Dr. Bill Mason of First Bank, and a member of the committees at the hospital such as the Dr. Bill Mason attended Hoover Community Appearance Commission finance committee, audit committee High School and both played football for the City of Salisbury. He was and personnel committees. He has and wrestled. He was co-captain of selected for the Case Western Reserve been involved in the new acquisitions both football and wrestling his senior Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004 and of the hospital and has volunteered at year and graduated as a member of earned a special award for captaining the Aultman Hospital Women’s Board Hoover’s first graduating class in two sports. Compassionate Care Center preparing 1958. lunch for patients’ families on Sundays, After high school, Bill attended at Christmas and at Easter. He is Case Western Reserve University and currently co-chairing the Capital majored in Chemistry. While at Case Campaign for the new Cancer Center Western Reserve, Bill was again a two project with his wife, Lisa, a former sport athlete in football and wrestling. inductee of the North Canton Alumni In fact, he is one of three men in Case Hall of Distinction. Western Reserve’s history to captain Steve is currently on the Huntington two sports in the same year – 1961. Bank Advisory Board and the Pro He earned first place in the President’s Football Hall of Fame Board. He Athletic Conference in the 167 lb. served on ArtsinStark for three years. weight class from 1958-1961. After From 2010 to 2016, Steve and Lisa graduating in 1962, Bill attended medical co-chaired the United Way Alexis de school at University of Maryland. He Eddie McClintock Tocqueville Society. Steve also volun- did his rotating internship at Mercy Eddie McClintock attended teers at First Tee in Canton. Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, in Hoover High School and played Steve has helped grow North 1966 and 1967. football – including the team that Canton’s lacrosse program by being Bill applied for and was admitted competed for the state championship a high school JV coach for 12 years to the Naval School of Aviation Medicine – and wrestled, graduating in 1985. and coaching 5th and 6th grade for 5 at Pensacola, Florida. He became a flight Eddie attended Wright State University years. Additionally, Steve was involved surgeon and learned to fly T-34s. He where he earned his bachelors. He in the turf project at Don Hertler Sr. served as a Naval Flight Surgeon for 2 worked briefly in the insurance industry Field at Memorial Stadium. ½ years at a jet training base in until his uncle fired him. After working In 2013, Steve and Lisa were Meridian, Mississippi, before completing as a production assistant in Hollywood, honored by the Wilderness Center, a four year Orthopedic Residency Eddie began acting. Eddie has guest and, in 2010, they were recognized at Naval Hospital in San Diego. Bill starred on shows such as Sex and the by United Way Worldwide for the net finished his military career in 1975 as City, Bones, Friends, Ned and Stacey, increase in community impact dollars the Chief of Orthopedics at Quantico, 9-1-1, Supergirl, and The King of Online Version PDF.indd 2 10/23/2019 2:42:23 PM Viking Alert - Fall - 2019 Page 3 Queens. He was a cast member on Summit Convention and Visitors Stark Raving Mad, which was awarded Bureau Board of Directors and was the People’s Choice Award in 2000. chairman of the board from 2014- His longest run was on SyFy’s 18. He has been on the Visit Canton Warehouse 13 playing Pete Latimer Board of Directors, the Stark Economic for five seasons. When the show Development Board of Directors, and premiered, they earned the highest chaired the Canton Regional Chamber ratings in the history of the SyFy of Commerce Board this year. Rick is network. Recently, Eddie played Jack still involved with the Canton Regional Payne in the main cast of Shooter’s first Chamber of Commerce Board of season on USA network. Directors, the Ohio Aviation Association In addition to acting, Eddie is a Board of Directors, and the Northeast working artist. He is part of an art Ohio Medical University Board of exhibit this summer in Malibu. The Rick McQueen Directors. show – For the Love of Art – is a Rick McQueen is a 1977 graduate Rick has been recognized by the group art show featuring the work of of Hoover High School, graduating Crains Cleveland Who’s Who and various Los Angeles artists. from Walsh University in 1981. He Crains Cleveland Power 150. He has Eddie has an active social media started his career as a staff accountant earned the Summit County Sheriff’s presence and is a regular attendee at with Ernst and Whinney, then began Award of Appreciation, and the Can- Comicons.