It's a really horrible and mean thing to do to another person.
I wish I had thought of it.
Lehigh County Exec Don Cunningham, in the course of getting ready for Lehigh County's Bicentennial on March 6, has announced an Inaugural Hall of Fame, too. But unfortunately, this is a nice list of twenty four prominent current and former residents of Lehigh County. are attached.
Honorees will be formally inducted at 6:00 p.m. on Community Celebration Day, March 10, an all-day event at the Agri-Plex building located on the grounds of the Allentown Fairgrounds.
The Bicentennial Committee still needs about a dozen volunteers to help coordinate on the day of the community celebration. Anyone interested in helping can go to www.lehighcounty.org and click on the bicentennial logo, or call (610) 782-3001.
In addition to the Hall of Fame induction, the community celebration will feature more than seventy-five community groups, businesses, historical societies and ethnic and cultural groups with interactive, educational and historical displays including a live bison visiting from the Lehigh Valley Zoo Food and drinks will be available on a cash basis. The day will end with a fireworks display and a bicentennial performance by the Allentown Symphony Orchestra at Allentown’s Symphony Hall.
J.B. Reilly will be juggling all day, while Mayor Edwin Pawlowski has volunteered for the dunk tank. Marcel Grown will collect all the trash.
Allentown is imposing a 200% sales tax on all food and beverages sold. City Council will pass a law later making it all legal.
All proceeds that do not go into the NIZ will fund the George Taylor House in Catasauqua, one of only a handful of remaining homes of one of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence.
Below are the Inaugural Hall of Famers:
Lehigh County Hall of Fame Inaugural Class
Athletics
Larry Seiple, football NFL Super Bowl Champ 2x Allentown
Ed McCaffrey, football NFL Super Bowl Champ 3x Allentown
Marty Nothstein, cycling Olympic Gold Medalist Emmaus
Michelle Marciniak, bball NCAA National Champ/WNBA Macungie
Arts and Entertainment
Carson Kressley TV Personality Weisenberg
Amanda Seyfried Actress Allentown
Christine Taylor Actress L. Macungie
Michaela Conlin TV Actress, Bones S. Whitehall
Business
Ed Donley Former Air Products & Chemicals CEO U. Macungie
Raymond “Chip” Mason Founder of Legg Mason financial firm Bethlehem
Lee Iacocca Former Chrysler Corp. CEO/Author Allentown
Government and Military
Brig. Gen. Anna Mae Hays First woman general in US military Allentown
Gen. Thomas R. Morgan Four Star General/Asst. Marine Slatington
Commandant
Innovation and Philanthropy
Joel Spira Founder of Lutron Electronics/ Coopersburg
Inventor of dimmer switch
Literature and Communications
David Zinczenko Editor of Men’s Health/Author Emmaus
John Grogan Author of Marley and Me/Columnist Coopersburg
Charles Bierbauer Network White House correspondent Allentown
Billy Packer Network basketball broadcaster Bethlehem
Rich Lerner Golf Channel broadcaster Allentown
Sounds like a great way to cull future big time donations. Just a thought. With all the categories, once the obvious are on then it may be, "who ya know and what ya got".
ReplyDeleteThis is such a crap list. How about people who dedicate their lives to low paying community service?
ReplyDeleteWhat does being a 4 time Super Bowl "participant" (i.e. 4 time loser) have to do with reputable fame worthy of being inducted in the hall? Seems like a random assortment of "Who's Who Lehigh Valley." Hope it doesn't cost any money.
You forgot Duane "The Rock" Johnson of the WWE and movie star!
ReplyDeleteSorry Bernie, maybe, you will make the list next year.
ReplyDeleteBernie
ReplyDeleteDo you mean these celebrities are going to be there? Ms. Taylor? Wow.
Love her.
Bernie
ReplyDeleteCan you find out who picked this group? Yes, The Rock, Definitely should have been tapped.
Any Lehigh County list absent Emma Tropiano is irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteHow about all the drug dealers and murderers who keep the criminal justice system afloat.
ReplyDeleteI believe Dwayne Johnson is from Bethlehem. If he's from the Northampton County part, he wouldn't qualify for the list.
ReplyDeleteHarmless, but a waste of time.
ReplyDelete-Clem.
Surprised Cunningham didn't put himself on the list.
ReplyDeleteWhat I find most interesting of the list is how many of them still live in the LV? Only a fraction?
ReplyDeleteI hope to get luckey at the EIT grab bag booth. Maybe I can get mhy hands on some tickets to the NIZ suite at the Lehigh Valley Arena.
ReplyDeleteThere was a nominations process that was all over the place for several months. Yeah, the rock would have been good.
ReplyDeleteI think he really only lived here for a year or so, though. He mostly grew up in California and hawaii.
How about Max Hess?
ReplyDeleteDwayne Johnson did, in fact, play his high school football for Freedom before going on to the University of Miami ...
ReplyDeleteThis is the usual innocuous Cunningham stuff. Fluffy meaningless fare to entertain the masses. It gets their minds off the real issues of the county.
ReplyDeleteI guess the Rock is from Northampton County if he went to Freedom.
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