Four new members were inducted Tuesday into the Wayland High School Alumni Hall of Fame at the annual Scholastic Awards ceremony.
They were Dr. Pete Moore (Class of 1984), Joyce (Bezemek) Leach (Class of 1970), Lillian DeKoning (Class of 2004), and Joseph Harnish (Class of 1997).
The following is a list of previous WHS Alumni Hall of Fame selections:
2001 — Claude Smith (1928)
2002 — Joe Miller (1975)
2003 — Daryl Fleser (1955)
2004 — Dorothy DeWeerd (1946)
2005 — Fred Hilbert (1930)
2006 — Francis Beuschel (1955)
2007 — Tom Tarnutzer (1965)
2008 — Clayton Jackson (1966)
2009 — Ethel Aubil (1935)
2010 — Art Johnson (1968)
2011 — Julia Smith (1927)
2012 — Hugh DeWeerd and Dr. Michael DeWeerd (1945 and 1968)
2013 —Patrick Coughlin (1989)
2014 — Teresa Permoda (1972)
2015 — Norman Fifelski (1965) and Roger Merren (1967)
2016 — Cheri Ritz (1977) and Roger VanVolkinburg (1972)
2017 — Embriette Hyde (2006) and Mary Jane Merren (1967)
2018 — Beatrice (Rairigh) Smith and Dick Miller (1962)
2019— Jackie Straub (1965) and Frank and Marylin Bastion
2020 — *Covid
2021 — Eric (1964) and William Hooker (1938)
2022 — Lisa Schroeder Banas (1980) and Joan Miller (1964)
2023 — Donald Shafer (1941), Jennifer Moushegian (1989) and Vicki Schwartz (1971).
2024 — Josephine Kiel (1939), David Smith (1971), and Connie VanHouten (1983).
2025 — Robyn Robinson, Joe Kramer and Coralee Miller.
