Seneca High School Hall of Fame amplifies new inductees

Rob Holmes and Rocco Jerome reveal details on the October 4 induction into the Seneca High School Hall of Fame.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Coming soon, ladies and gentlemen, Seneca High School is going
to pay homage to some more of its legendary lumps.
Rob Holmes returns to the scene of the crime. Go
to see you again. Good, good to be here. Thanks
for having us back. And my man Rocko's with you today, Roco,
how's lying?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
What's shaking? Baby?

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Usually?

Speaker 1 (00:16):
I see you got a new comic book. You got
some professional wrestler with you. I never know what you're
going to do.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
I really neither do I to be honest with you, Too's.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Gonna see both of you again. Yeah, I forgot that
you are a Seneca guy.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
I was Yeah, class in nineteen ninety seven.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
You're a man of mystery. Yeah, so I was never
quite sure.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
I was voted most unique in the senior superlatives, but
I could have been voted least likely to work for
the Alumni Association and hosts the Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Did Rob talk you into this?

Speaker 4 (00:51):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Rob is a gentleman and a scholar, and I believe
in the mission, and he won me over. Man, that's
what happens.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Is this your way of because he's what you guys
ten years apart or yeah, he's not like he's the
next generation, the half generation, right. That's good that you
brought him in. This guy is connected to everybody. Every time,
you know, I see you know, look on TV the
popes out there on the balcony. There's Rocco next GM.
Rocco is the Kevin Bacon of Louis. Yes, and it
may be only six degrees in separation. That's true, all right,

(01:23):
So tell me about the people we are celebrating.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Ron.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
We are celebrating uh and happy to announce this year's class.
Dave Madden Lee who is that? Is that my media friend?
That is your media friend and one of your co hearts.
And he is an Emmy award winning broadcaster a very
long career, and so we're going to celebrate Dave. And
Dave actually was previously the MC for our events, so

(01:50):
that's nice. We're giving Dave his flowers. He takes that
Emmy seriously. It's the hood ornament on his car. It
seems a little excessive, but he likes it. You know,
I'm not mad at him. I would probably do something similar.
Man would probably be on a hat.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
So he's he's more classic. So just to put it
on this He's a good human being.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
He is.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
He still works for Wave, doesn't He still works a Wave.
I think he's wrapping up retirement. So we just thought
it was important this year, uh, to celebrate his long
and illustrious career.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
It's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Nobody loves Seneca more than David Mattingly.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Is what happens. So you get a plaque on the
wall or your name on something, and what happened you
get you get both.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
You get a plaque on the wall, and we give
you a parting gift to take home, uh, to put
on the coffee table. But uh, it's really our way
of recognizing some of the outstanding you know, Seneca Redskins
and and red Hawks that have graduated. And I think
we you know, every high school is proud of their

(02:51):
former alump and and we are we are too. I
know sat Xa's that's proud of their graduates, proud of
some of them, you know. Uh, but Penetica's got Seneca.
You know.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
As as soon as I hear Seneca, I think of
Wes right away. Yes, west onsold was such a just
such a figure in the basketball at obviously at the
high school level, but then college and then you know,
Ul gets him, and it's like that was such a
big thing because it was the time where we were
finally making the reasonable ridiculous shift we had to make

(03:24):
sure bring black players into college basketball. It's just why
did this take so long? Anyway, Wes was just a
trailblazer and then had a great career as a player
and a coach.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Larger than life.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, he was, so you guys at Seneca had to
be proud of him.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, we're definitely proud of of of Wes. And we
actually have some things, hopefully in the works with their
family to try to fast some other ways to honor
a good Wes. And then also his brother George, who
was an educator of course, and remember George was a
basketball career. People kind of forget because he was a
politician at a educator, but he actually was an All

(04:02):
American in Kansas, So he was no slouch.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
You know, I don't think that ever came up the
times I was talking with him when he was working
for the city.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
He so he was so humble. Yeah, you know I
would be saying, Harry, I was an All American. Also,
you never mentioned that.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
That would be me I would lead with that, I
would leave with that.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
What else is coming into this year's class?

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yes, so we got Phil Hogland, who was a long
time drummer teacher and had an influential impact on a
number of students, but Rocco in particular, i'd being a
drummer kid. And then also Susie Spurlock Roads fifty year
nursing career Outstanding in care fifth fifty year. Yeah, that

(04:41):
that seems to be the number for today. Good for her,
Good for her. And then Brent house Brandt is a
Triple seven captain at United Airlines. He's a retired lieutenant
colonel in the in the Air Force. And you know,
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention this. We're living

(05:03):
in an age where I don't know if you've heard
about this, but there's some African American pilots that have
been called into question in terms of their ability, and
so Brandt basically breaks a lot of those stereotypes history
to that. And so we're honoring him as a retired
lieutenant colonel and.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Asking Kenny Money's up there and say, once you get
that thing airborne, you just look at the co pilot
and say it's all yours right right, then he starts
looking at his iPad. Last week that happened a Spirit
Airlines flight was getting too close to Air Force one
and the guy in the tower in New York said,
stop looking at your iPad.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
I heard that. And the funny thing about it is
it's Spirit.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
And then he's like, oh, yeah, this is like killing
their reputation of course, because they don't even have seats
on those planes.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
You just sit on your bags, right, it's Spirit. So well,
congratulations to those guys. And who else is coming in?

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Last, but not least is we have Matt Durant and
he is the Chief Justice for the State of Utah's
Supreme Court.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Wow, so a kind of a big deal, I would say,
so in the state of Utah. That's a lot of power,
that's for sure. It's a lot of power. He crosses
over into Montana like, yeah, we're not calling you judge here.
He's just another fisherman everybody. I wouldn't be surprised if
the Utah Supreme Court people had those hats on the

(06:27):
new those lures stuck in.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
Can we move this case along. I gotta get to.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
A stream, get a large amount pass where's the event, Roco.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
It's gonna be at Melwood Arts Center on October fourth,
that's ten to four.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
A good buddy.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
You can get tickets via Seneca Forever dot orger, where
you can also learn a lot more about our organization.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
And event Bright.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
You can go directly to event Bright and type in
Seneca Hall of Fame and it'll pop right up and
get your tickets there.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
I saw a guy at the grocery store of the
weekend that listens to this station, so I uh, we
won't leave him out either. He's kind of a famous alum.
He was the mayor of the city of Louisville.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
I have what is his name?

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Is it?

Speaker 4 (07:10):
Ji?

Speaker 2 (07:13):
I thought I thought he meant Mary Jaberson.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Jerry and Madeline were both shopping. I like it that
the mayor goes to Kroger with his wife.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
He's a sweet dude man. He used to my Big
Jerry Abramson's story was that he came to Holly Cook
when I worked there, and you know, of course I
had a name tag with my name on it, and
he would say, hey, Rocco, could to see Rocco. And
then the next time he came in, like the third
time he came in, he was like, Rocco, how you
doing yep? And I was like, hey man, so good
to see you, Jerry, and he went off and I
sit at the guy next to me. You know, he

(07:43):
just looked at my name tag and my friend said,
you're not wearing your name tag. You forgot it.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
That's him, That's Jerry, right. He remembers people.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
What a guy.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
He remembers things that you tell him. I mean, he's
just got one of those memories where he's connected. O.
There's Terry. He's got thirteen brothers and sisters. He does,
and he's been so good to our family over all.
Love the guy. I thought it was funny though. There
he was, you know, and Madeline and Jerry they hollered
at me. I was over there looking at mouthwash or something,

(08:13):
and he goes, what's up.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
We got to find a way to get him back in.
We we merged the city in the county. What can
we merge next.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
We just need to give him a job. We need
Craig to just figure out the thing. Make him emperor,
the emperor of the city. Craig Greenberg's humble. He doesn't
care assume shaking hands too all hands on deck. That's
what we need. Rob go to see you again to Rocko,
absolutely all right. Tell everybody again where they can get
to their Seneca Hall of Fame tickets.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
That you can go to event bright dot com. And
then you also can go to our website, which is
Seneca Forever dot org and you can click on the
Lincoln it'll take you to event Bright and get your tickets.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
We'll see everybody October the fourth.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Thanks.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, indeed, very food motivated. Get that in there.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
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