Thomas Kot is the grandson of Philip Alfred Heupel Sr., a 1918 graduate of Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C., which at the time was the only college in the world for the deaf.

Ophelia High’s parents moved to Akron from Middlefield, Georgia, and lived on a farm in East Akron.

Joseph Heisser started working at Goodyear in 1973 and went through the rigorous apprenticeship program at Goodyear Hall.

Cheryl Suttle Wagoner’s father, Reuben Festus Suttle, graduated from Green high-school in 1952 and started working for Goodyear in the print shop.