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Parma Senior High School
Parma Senior High School (alternatively known as PSH or Parma High School) was one of three public high schools in the Parma City School District in Parma, Ohio. The school was a member of the Northeast Ohio Conference. The Parma Board of Education was moved into the high school in Fall 2006. Parma Senior High School athletic teams were known as the Redmen and compete in the Great Lakes Conference. The school closed following the 2022-23 school year. It was demolished in 2024. History It was formerly the Parma Schaaf High School. Alumni *John Adams (1969), a Cleveland Indians fan known as "The Drummer" who played a bass drum at nearly every Indians game at Progressive Field *Bob Brugge (1944), former National Football League player for the Cleveland Browns *Carmen Cozza (1948) College Football Hall of Fame Coach *Neil Giraldo (1973) American musician, record producer, arranger, and songwriter best known as the musical partner of Pat Benatar *Frank A. Herda (1966), Medal of H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parma, Ohio
Parma is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is a suburb south of Cleveland. The population was 81,146 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Parma is the List of municipalities in Ohio, seventh-most populous city in Ohio, the largest suburb in the state, and the second-largest city in Cuyahoga County. History Greenbriar (1806–1826) In 1806, the area that would eventually become Parma and Parma Heights, Ohio, Parma Heights was originally surveyed by Abraham Tappen, Abraham Tappan, a surveyor for the Connecticut Land Company, and was known as Township 6 - Range 13. This designation gave the town its first identity in the Connecticut Western Reserve, Western Reserve. Soon after, Township 6 - Range 13 was commonly referred to as "Greenbriar", supposedly for the rambling bush that grew there. Benajah Fay, his wife Ruth Wilcox Fay, and their ten children, arrivals from Lewis County, New York, Lewis County, New York (state), New York, were the first settlers i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleveland Browns
The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland. The Browns compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) AFC North, North division. The team is named after original coach and co-founder Paul Brown. They play their home games at Huntington Bank Field, which opened in 1999, with administrative offices and training facilities in Berea, Ohio. The franchise's official club colors are brown, orange, and white. They are unique among the 32 member clubs of the NFL in that they do not have a logo on their helmets. The franchise was founded in 1944 by Brown and businessman Arthur B. McBride as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), and began play in 1946. The Browns dominated the AAFC, compiling a 47–4–3 record in the league's four seasons and winning its championship in each. When the AAFC folded after the 1949 season, the Browns joined the NFL along with the San Francis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Ozdowski
Michael Thomas Ozdowski (born September 24, 1955) is an American former professional football defensive end who played four seasons with the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Colts in the second round of the 1977 NFL draft after playing college football at the University of Virginia. Early life Ozdowski played high school football at Parma Senior High School in Parma, Ohio, earning three varsity letters and All-State honors as a middle guard. He was a two-time Plain Dealer Player of the Week honoree and was selected to play in the north–south game. He graduated in 1973. Ozdowski was inducted into the Parma Senior High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007. College career Ozdowski was a four-year varsity letterman for the Virginia Cavaliers. He earned All- ACC, All-Academic, and Player of the Year honors during his college career. He was named the 1977 University of Virginia Athlete of the Year. Professional career Ozdowski was select ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Plain Dealer
''The Plain Dealer'' is the major newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio; it is a major national newspaper. In the fall of 2019, it ranked 23rd in U.S. newspaper circulation, a significant drop since March 2013, when its circulation ranked 17th daily and 15th on Sunday. , ''The Plain Dealer'' had 94,838 daily readers and 171,404 readers on Sunday. ''The Plain Dealer''s media market, the Cleveland-Akron Designated Market Area, has a population of 3.8 million people making it the 19th-largest market in the United States. In August 2013, ''The Plain Dealer'' reduced home delivery to four days a week, including Sunday. A daily version of ''The Plain Dealer'' is available electronically as well as in print at stores, newspaper vending machine, newsracks and newsstands. History Founding The newspaper was established in January 1842 when two brothers, Joseph William Gray and Admiral Nelson Gray, took over ''The Cleveland Advertiser'' and changed its name to ''The Plain Dealer''. ''The Cleve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenan & Kel
''Kenan & Kel'' is an American sitcom created by Kim Bass that originally aired on Nickelodeon from August 17, 1996, to May 3, 2000. Set in Chicago, the series follows mischievous Kenan Rockmore (Kenan Thompson) and his happy-go-lucky best friend Kel Kimball ( Kel Mitchell), who get involved with zany hijinks on a number of misadventures. The show was one of three spin-offs from ''All That'', in which Thompson and Mitchell had co-starred for several years. The show features Kenan's family, which consists of his father Roger (Ken Foree), mother Sheryl ( Teal Marchande), and younger sister Kyra (Vanessa Baden). The show also features Kenan's boss Chris Potter ( Dan Frischman). ''Kenan & Kel'' features appearances from a number of guest stars, including game show host/radio disc jockey Bob Eubanks, basketball player Ron Harper, and singer Britney Spears. The series won the "Favorite TV Show" award at the 1998 Kids' Choice Awards. The first two seasons were taped at Nickelodeon S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biagio Messina
Biagio Messina is an American television producer, director, showrunner, filmmaker, and actor. Background His hometown is Cleveland, Ohio. Messina graduated from Parma Senior High School, which is located near Cleveland, Ohio. While still in high school, he wrote the play ''Me and Grandma.'' It won the ''Marilyn Bianci Young Playwrights Festival'' and was produced at Dobama Theater. Career He played the role of List of Kenan & Kel characters, Marc Cram on the Nickelodeon sitcom ''Kenan & Kel''. His filmmaking credits include the feature-length, theatrically released documentary ''Dying to do Letterman'', which was invited by the International Documentary Association to qualify for the Academy Award consideration. Messina's television producing credits include the VH1 reality TV series Scream Queens (2008 TV series), ''Scream Queens'', the MTV documentary series Caged (TV series), ''Caged'', The CW reality show ''Beauty and the Geek'', and the MTV ''True Life'' ''Presents' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HOK Sport
Populous Holdings, Inc. is a global architectural and design practice specializing in sports facilities, arenas and convention centers, as well as the planning and design of major special events. Populous was created through a management buyout in January 2009, becoming independently owned and operated. It is reported to be one of the largest architecture firms in the world. Populous formerly operated as HOK Sport Venue Event, which was part of HOK Group Inc. History Company development In 1983, HOK under Jerry Sincoff created a sports group (initially called the Sports Facilities Group and later changed to HOK Sport Venue Event). The firm initially consisted of eight architects in Kansas City, and grew to employ 185 people by 1996. The HOK Sport studio was led by architect Ron Labinski, who has been described as "the world's first sports venue architect." On several projects, HOK Sport had teamed with international design practice LOBB Partnership, which maintained offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Labinski
Ron Labinski (December 7, 1937 – January 1, 2023) was an American architect, notable for influential designs of stadiums for professional baseball and football. Focusing for much of his career on sports venues, Labinski was instrumental in establishing sports and assembly venue design as architectural specialties. Labinski's work led to the establishment of several such specialized firms in Kansas City, composed of many of Labinski's former colleagues, making Kansas City the center of sports-related design. Labinski has been described as the world's first sports venue architect. Early life Ronald Joseph Labinski was born on December 7, 1937, in Buffalo, New York. He was the son of Raymond and Bertha Labinski, the second of four siblings. His father was a wholesale food salesman. During Labinski's childhood the family moved to Cleveland and Chicago. Showing an interest in architecture from an early age, Labinski remembered drawing Ebbetts Field as a child, foreshadowing his car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Jarvis (actor)
Scott Jarvis (April 9, 1941 – February 26, 1990) was an American actor of stage and screen. He was mainly active as a musical theatre actor from the mid-1960s into the late 1980s. He is best remembered for creating the role of the Courier in the original Broadway theatre, Broadway production of Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone (writer), Peter Stone's musical ''1776 (musical), 1776'' in which he was critically acclaimed for his performance of the song "Momma Look Sharp". Early life and education Scott Jarvis was born with the name Ralph Jerome JarvisRalph Jerome Jarvis in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936–2007 in Ohio on April 9, 1941. He grew up in Parma, Ohio. He was the son of Walter C. Jarvis and Alma A. Arent. He graduated from Parma Senior High School in 1959. In his senior year, he performed in a school production of Ayn Rand's ''Night of January 16th'' as District Attorney Flint. He was a student at Ohio State University in the 1959–1960 ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio State University
The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one of the List of largest United States university campuses by enrollment, largest universities by enrollment in the United States, with nearly 50,000 undergraduate students and nearly 15,000 graduate students. The university consists of sixteen colleges and offers over 400 degree programs at the undergraduate and Graduate school, graduate levels. It is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". the university has an List of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment, endowment of $7.9 billion. Its athletic teams compete in NCAA Division I as the Ohio State Buckeyes as a member of the Big Ten Conference for the majority of fielde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heisman Trophy
The Heisman Memorial Trophy ( ; also known simply as the Heisman) is awarded annually since 1935 to the top player in college football. It is considered the most prestigious award in the sport and is presented by the Heisman Trophy Trust following the regular season in December. The most recent List of Heisman Trophy winners, winner is former Colorado Buffaloes football, Colorado Buffaloes cornerback and wide receiver Travis Hunter. The award was created by the Downtown Athletic Club to recognize "the most valuable college football player east of the Mississippi River, Mississippi" and was first awarded to University of Chicago halfback Jay Berwanger. The award was given its name in 1936 after the death of the club's athletic director John Heisman and broadened to include players west of the Mississippi. Winners USC Trojans football, USC has the most Heisman trophies won with eight; Ohio State, Oklahoma, and Notre Dame each have seven; Ohio State has had six different players wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Horvath
Leslie Horvath (October 12, 1921 – November 14, 1995) was an American football quarterback who won the Heisman Trophy while playing for the Ohio State Buckeyes in 1944. Horvath was the first Ohio State player to win the Heisman, an award given to the best college football player in the United States. The school retired his jersey number 22 in October 2000. Horvath grew up in Parma, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland and became a standout high school athlete despite his small stature. He entered Ohio State in 1939 on a work scholarship, but tried out for and made the football team the following year. He played as a reserve halfback on the 1942 team coached by Paul Brown that won Ohio State's first-ever national championship. Horvath graduated that year and moved to Ohio State's dental school. In 1944, however, acting Ohio State football coach Carroll Widdoes asked Horvath to rejoin the team, taking advantage of a World War II-era rule allowing graduate students with remaining eligi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
