Four to be inducted into MAC Hall of Fame
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The Mount Ayr Community Schools Hall of Fame was established created to honor graduates, employees, teams, individuals, and friends of the Mount Ayr Community School for their accomplishments and/or service to the Mount Ayr Community School, and to inspire our students to become the best that they can be.
The Committee is proud to introduce the 2023 Hall of Fame inductees.
Our first inductee is Jake Dailey.
Jake turned 101 in November.
He was in the United States Navy during World War 2 and served as a surgical technician.
He was responsible for the initial surgical care for hundreds of wounded soldiers.
After his time in World War 2 Jake came back to Ringgold County, only to be called back to active duty during the Korean War.
He served at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center.
Jake returned to Ringgold County and served his community in many ways.
He was the leader of the football chain gang keeping the spot and down marker.
He ran a furniture business in town, and most recently he was a volunteer for EveryStep Hospice.
He has provided special pinning and recognition ceremonies to 130 veterans who were under EveryStep care.
Jake’s service to veterans and patients is impressive.
Our second inductee is Mr. Dan Roe.
Dan distinguished himself in high school as a standout athlete.
While in high school he was a conference champion five times and a district/state winner four times.
The highlight of his high school track career was winning the high hurdles at the 1968 state track meet.
He held the high hurdle record at MACHS for nearly 30 years.
After high school he continued his track career at Northwest Missouri State University.
After serving in the army during Vietnam, he became an educator and superintendent.
He received the Iowa High School Service Award, the School Administrators of Iowa superintendent of the year nominee, and the Executives Educator 100, presented to the top 100 small school educators in the United States.
Our third inductee is Blaine Scott.
Mr. Scott was an active-duty member of the Marines Third Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Delta Company.
On August 20, 2006, Scott and his convoy were moving rapidly along a road when his vehicle was struck by an IED buried on the side of the road.
Three were killed in the explosion and three others severely burned.
Scott had burns over 40% of his body and an ankle that was shattered.
Mentoring and leading Marines in battle as an infantryman is what he was trained to do and did for many years.
After his recuperation, Scott ensures wounded Marines have the best healing environment possible and that their personal and professional issues are taken care of.
He works now as the Staff Noncommissioned Officer in Charge at the San Antonio Military Medical Center Marine Corp Detachment, assisting wounded Marines during their hospitalization and rehabilitation at the Burn Center and SAMMC.
Our final inductee for 2023 is Robert Ricker Jr.
Bobby was a professional software engineer in the digital telephone technology and he made many contributions to the music industry in his lifetime.
He was the owner and operator of Waltzing Bear Studios, a music production company on Music Row.
Most of his career was spent in telephone including 15 years in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina.
He helped create many of the Internet and cell phone services everyone enjoys today, including the development of the DMS-100 SMA which is still one of the dominate ways of transmitting voice and data traffic on cellphones.
He was also the senior engineer and one of the first to develop a wireless digital voice switch that could interface and network freely between wireline voice, wireless voice, and internet platforms.
The Hall of Fame banquet will be held in conjunction with the Homecoming festivities in the fall of 2023.
Congratulations to our newest Hall of Fame members on their upcoming induction: Jake Dailey, Dan Roe, Blaine Scott and Robert Ricker, Jr.
