ROBERT SHULTZ
1937 Graduate
Educator/Assistant Superintendent
Nominated by: Robert Shultz '37

Robert Shultz graduated from Clay High School in 1937 after attending Oregon elementary schools. He is a graduate of the University of Toledo with a Bachelor and Masters degree in Education. After being hired by Josephine Fassett, Bob taught at Coy School and coached football at Clay High School. He became principal at Wynn Elementary and went on to become the first principal at Starr Elementary in 1957. When Eisenhower Junior High opened in 1960, he became their first principal.

During his last fifteen years in the Oregon School System, Bob served as Assistant Superintendent for Business Affairs. He retired in March 1985.

In 1956, Bob was instrumental in working with the incorporation when Oregon became a city. He was inducted into the East Toledo Neighborhood House Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame in 1996. He was appointed as City of Oregon’s representative to the Lucas County Health Department in 1982 and served until 2001.

LOREN DIRR
Clay High School
Educator
Nominated by: Tammy Hughes '76

Loren Dirr was a graduate of Holgate High School and has a Bachelor of Education and a Master of Education in Administration from the University of Toledo. He has been a teacher at Clay High School, principal of Eisenhower Jr. High, athletic director at Clay High School and the Assistant Principal of Clay High School. He has co-chaired levey campaigns and directed the strategic planning process for Oregon Schools. Loren has been involved in coaching girls and boys in basketball, baseball and cross-country.

Loren’s achievements include Outstanding Ban Member and member of the National Honor Society in high school. He also initiated the Clay Eagle Cross Country Invitational and was honored by the Ohio Track and Cross Country Coaches Association. He has been recognized as an outstanding administrator by the Northwest Ohio Special Education Regional Resource Center.

He is a member of St. Joseph’s church in Maumee where he is a Eucharistic Minister. Loren enjoys playing golf, the piano, biking, working out and woodworking.

DR. MATTHEW ARTHUR ARQUETTE
1968 Graduate
Dr. of Oncology
Nominated by: Evelyn Bartlett '56

Matthew is the great-great grandson of pioneer settler Perry Coy after who Coy Elementary School was named. Matt attended Coy and Eisenhower and then graduated from Clay High School in 1968.

After graduation, Matt went to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and was active at the school, organizing the ministry program and drama productions, and creating a stain glass window for the chapel. During the summer he helped his grandmother, Ann Sprague, on her farm and at her vegetable stand on Wheeling Street.

He attended Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. After graduation he worked at the Siteman Cancer Center devoting his life to find ways to alleviate pain caused by cancer. Matt was the editor of the Washington Manual of Oncology, which is still used by oncologists today. He was the recipient of the Barnes-Jewish Hospitals “Caring Spirit” award, the Alpha Lambda Upsilon Award and the Knowleton Excellence Award. He was on staff at Washington University and belonged to the American College of Physicians, The American Medical Association, the American Society for Hematology, and the American Society of Microbiology. He worked for many pharmaceutical companies in developing drugs for cancer patients.