Green River High School’s 2018 hall of fame inductees include a World War II airman, a professor of engineering from the University of Wyoming, a doctor and two girl’s basketball teams.
Athletics Director Tony Beardsley announced the inductees in a media release Tuesday afternoon. The inductees will be honored during the school’s hall of fame weekend Sept. 6-8. The festivities kick off at a social gathering Sept. 6 at 6 p.m., followed by a halftime presentation of the inductees during the Green River-Rawlins football game Sept. 7. The weekend concludes with a banquet Sept. 8 at GRHS.
The girls basketball team from 1996 and 1997 will be inducted, along with the teams’ head coach Rick Carroll. The two teams took second at state.
Arthur Hale will also receive recognition. Hale was a Tuckegee airman and flight instructor during World War II and later became an aerospace engineer.
Inductee Don Polson is a professor emeritus at the UW, having worked as an engineering professor for the university. Polson is also a Fulbright Scholar and had worked with the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
The final inductee, Joseph Smith, is a doctor of critical care medicine and internal medicine.
Smith was a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine for the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Penn., and the clinical professor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.
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