FREEHOLD — This year’s Freehold High School Hall of Fame banquet will honor a theme park president, a rocket scientist, a state legislator, a college professor and a broadcast journalist.
A banquet will be held to honor the inductees on April 2 at the Battleground County Club, Manalapan. Tickets are $40. To buy a ticket or to place an ad in the event program, contact Susan Schrott at 732-421- 8360.
Scheduled for induction to the high school’s Hall of Fame this year are:
• New Jersey legislator Clifton T. Barkalow, class of 1926, who is being honored posthumously;
• Professor Daniel Boyarin, class of 1964, an author and professor at the University of California at Berkeley;
• Kevin Christopher, class of 1969, a broadcast journalist in Lexington, Ky.;
• Mark Kane, class of 1972, the president of Six Flags Great Adventure theme park, Jackson;
• Dr. Howard Kanner, class of 1987, who is a rocket scientist.
Freehold High School teacher Susan Schrott, who chairs the Hall of Fame Committee, said these graduates deserve to be recognized for their accomplishments.
“We are so proud of them. These people have gone on to excel in their field and they deserve to be honored. This is a tiny high school and look at what these people have done,” she said.
Schrott, who is also a Freehold High School graduate, said a strong sense of community is one of the things that makes the high school unique.
“Everyone knows Freehold High School is a well-kept secret, it needs to be recognized for that,” she said. “Until you’ve walked the halls of the high school and have gotten a sense of Colonial pride, you cannot know what it’s really like.”
The newest inductees into the Quarter Century Club — staff members with 25 or more years of service to Freehold High School — will also be honored at the April 2 event. They are Vincent Serencko, William H. Spaholz, Kent Zerby, Edna Kelly, Al Bennett, Ruth Schwimer, Paul Mitchell, Hal Schanck, Fred Carter, Dorothy Stutzman and Earl Stillwell.

