Two will be inducted into the Meade County High School Alumni Hall of Fame By SANDRA STONE For the past few years, Meade County High School has honored standouts in the field of athletics, Former coaches whose contributions to MCHS made a difference in young lives have been honored, as have student athletes who have gone on to find success both on and off the field of competition. Now, the Meade County High School Alumni Association has decided to begin honoring those who have succeeded in other areas of life. With that, the first class of the Meade County High School Hall of Fame has been announced.
McClure earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Pittsburgh and his master’s degree in American studies from Penn State Harrisburg. He served as editor of the York Daily Record/York Sunday News. McClure also has worked as a reporter, editor and publisher for newspapers in Pennsylvania and California. His award-winning journalism led to the York Daily Record/Sunday News receiving the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association’s Public Service Award in 2005 and national awards including the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award. McClure has also received the national Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. He served as general editor of the three-volume “250th Chronicles” for York County’s bisesquicentennial in 1999 and is the author of five books on York County History including “East of Gettysburg” and “A Gray Shadow Crosses York County, Pa.” “In the Thick of the Fight” is a history of World War II.
An American Saddlebred horse trainer and rider, Miles trained and rode gelding Five O’Clock to a $100,000 Five-Gaited World Grand Championship and trained and rode Manila Thrilla to a $25,000 Three-Gaited World Grand Championship. Miles is one of only four trainers and riders to win both events in the same show and is the youngest of the four to do so. Miles has also trained and ridden Red Chips in the Roadster, China Silk’s Revelation and Onion to world championships. For all this and many more accomplishments, he was named Horseman of the Year in 2005. The Meade County High School Alumni Hall of Fame induction will be held during the annual MCHS Alumni banquet June 3 at 6 p.m. at Stuart Pepper Middle School. For more information, call alumni association vice president Velmeta Bruner at (270) 497-4235.
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James McClure, MCHS Class of 1972 is one of the first two hall of fame honorees.
Also honored in the first class of the MCHS Hall of Fame is Todd Miles, Class of 1980.