2011 Hall of Fame Inductees

Sean Hilchey, '85 - 2011 Hall of Fame
	*Sean Hilchey, '85* - Sean is a member of the OACS Class of 1985. Following his graduation from high school he went on to earn his B.S. degree from Hobart College in 1989. From 1994 until 1998 he attended New York Medical College, Valhalla, N.Y. where he earned his M.D. His post graduate medical training included an internship in Internal Medicine at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Brighton, MA in 1998 and 1999. That was followed by a radiology residency at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA from 1999 to 2001 and at the University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA from 2001 to 2003. Dr. Hilchey also completed a Musculoskeletal Radiology Fellowship at the University of California at San Francisco from 2003 through 2004. He is currently a Board Certificate Radiologist at the Palo Alto Medical Clinic in Palo Alto, California. Dr. Hilchey specializes in MRI diagnosis of musculoskeletal sports injuries. His practice at the Palo Alto Medical Clinic includes coverage of many of the San Francisco Bay area's top professional athletes and sports teams including the Oakland Raiders, Golden State Warriors and the San Jose Earthquakes. Dr. Hilchey also performs therapeutic and diagnostic image guided joint injections and image guided biopsies of soft tissue tumors. Dr. Hilchey has coauthored numerous medical publications and has presented several abstracts/oral presentations. Honors and awards include selection for membership in Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, Dr. Rita Girolamo Award in Radiology from New York Medical College, and the John H. Harris, Jr. M.D. Award from the American Society of Emergency Radiology.

Sean Hilchey, '85 - 2011 Hall of Fame

Sean Hilchey, '85 - Sean is a member of the OACS Class of 1985. Following his graduation from high school he went on to earn his B.S. degree from Hobart College in 1989. From 1994 until 1998 he attended New York Medical College, Valhalla, N.Y. where he earned his M.D. His post graduate medical training included an internship in Internal Medicine at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Brighton, MA in 1998 and 1999. That was followed by a radiology residency at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA from 1999 to 2001 and at the University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA from 2001 to 2003. Dr. Hilchey also completed a Musculoskeletal Radiology Fellowship at the University of California at San Francisco from 2003 through 2004. He is currently a Board Certificate Radiologist at the Palo Alto Medical Clinic in Palo Alto, California.

Dr. Hilchey specializes in MRI diagnosis of musculoskeletal sports injuries. His practice at the Palo Alto Medical Clinic includes coverage of many of the San Francisco Bay area's top professional athletes and sports teams including the Oakland Raiders, Golden State Warriors and the San Jose Earthquakes. Dr. Hilchey also performs therapeutic and diagnostic image guided joint injections and image guided biopsies of soft tissue tumors.

Dr. Hilchey has coauthored numerous medical publications and has presented several abstracts/oral presentations. Honors and awards include selection for membership in Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, Dr. Rita Girolamo Award in Radiology from New York Medical College, and the John H. Harris, Jr. M.D. Award from the American Society of Emergency Radiology.

John Myers, '79 - 2011 Hall of Fame
	*John Myers, '79* - John's interest in photography began in high school. After graduating from OACS in 1979 John went on to Rochester Institute of Technology where he earned a BS degree in Professional Photography in 1983. After graduating from RIT, he began building his business and opened as a commercial photography studio in 1987. His company is now called Myers Creative Imaging and employs six individuals and has many commercial clients within the Rochester region, nationally and internationally. Some of these clients include: Constellation Wines, Xerox, Wegmans, Harris Corporation, Hasbro, Kodak, Xerox, RIT, Saint John Fisher College, and Carestream Health. John has photographed assignments on 6 continents and was fortunate to have a project that enabled him to shoot images in one trip around the world. He has had special projects in India, Italy, Greece, South Africa, New Zealand, and Finland, and was a photographer at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Greece. John's numerous awards and honors include 25 ADDY Awards and Citations between 2004 and 2010. An ADDY Award is similar to an Oscar, but awarded for advertising. In 2010 he was also the recipient of the "BEST OF SHOW" award, a special recognition for Photography. In addition, John's work was featured in the Communication Arts Photography Annual for 2010. Since 2000, John has been a Guest Lecturer for the RIT College of Imaging Arts and Sciences.

John Myers, '79 - 2011 Hall of Fame

John Myers, '79 - John's interest in photography began in high school. After graduating from OACS in 1979 John went on to Rochester Institute of Technology where he earned a BS degree in Professional Photography in 1983.

After graduating from RIT, he began building his business and opened as a commercial photography studio in 1987. His company is now called Myers Creative Imaging and employs six individuals and has many commercial clients within the Rochester region, nationally and internationally. Some of these clients include: Constellation Wines, Xerox, Wegmans, Harris Corporation, Hasbro, Kodak, Xerox, RIT, Saint John Fisher College, and Carestream Health.

John has photographed assignments on 6 continents and was fortunate to have a project that enabled him to shoot images in one trip around the world. He has had special projects in India, Italy, Greece, South Africa, New Zealand, and Finland, and was a photographer at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Greece.

John's numerous awards and honors include 25 ADDY Awards and Citations between 2004 and 2010. An ADDY Award is similar to an Oscar, but awarded for advertising. In 2010 he was also the recipient of the "BEST OF SHOW" award, a special recognition for Photography. In addition, John's work was featured in the Communication Arts Photography Annual for 2010.

Since 2000, John has been a Guest Lecturer for the RIT College of Imaging Arts and Sciences.

Pearl Pearlson Skolnik, '56 - 2011 Hall of Fame
	*Pearl Pearlson Skolnik, '56* - Pearl began school in Alabama's two-room school, graduating OACS in 1956 at the age of 16. Pearl's parents sent her to study and work in a kibbutz in Israel for one year after which she used her NYS scholarship to study at the University of Buffalo, where she earned a BA in History and Government, graduating Magna Cum Laude. Pearl taught Hebrew at local synagogues and organized a socialist Zionist youth movement in Buffalo at the same time. In 1961 she moved to NYC where she organized the same movement in that city, and worked in the advertising department of a publishing company. Pearl married Fred Skolnik in 1962. She worked that year as a teacher at a school in Brooklyn. In 1963 Pearl and Fred moved to Israel, living in Jerusalem, where they worked for Israel Program for Scientific Translations translating and editing technical books from Russian to English for the United States Government. From 1964 to 1965 Pearl pursued a Master's Degree with graduate studies in Jewish History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1974 Pearl helped organize the 50 year Jubilee at the Technion in Haifa (Israel Institute of Technology) where she helped set up the Samuel Neaman Institute of Advanced Studies. She continued her education with graduate studies in History of the Jewish People at Haifa University in Haifa from 1976 through 1978. While Pearl and Fred raised three children, she formed Pearl Skolnik Realty acting as CEO until illness forced her to pass the management to her nephew. She assisted thousands of Jews to make their aliya to Israel from England and the United States, including four of her sisters. "Her highest standards of ethics and morality made her a most trusted leader in the real estate world of Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh. Her desire to help people move to the Holy Land was so altruistic that clients ranged from dignitaries and celebrities to religious leaders to newlyweds starting out on their own." Pearl did not just sell a property she mentored her clients to find an appropriate community where they would be successful in their move. Pearl lived the life of a minority in our community and was often the brunt of physical and verbal insults. She drew on the strength she developed from this to assist her multi-national clients to assimilate into a new culture. When Pearl moved to Israel she did not turn her back on America, but turned her face toward the developing nation that was to become her new home. She had been raised to love America because her father and his sisters were saved when they were able to leave Russian Poland. More than 300 members of her father's family were murdered by the Nazis because they could not leave Poland. Pearl is remembered for contributing in her own way to the building of the country of Israel which was but a few years old when she began her Zionist work. There is a street named after her in one of the new neighborhoods in Jerusalem .She felt great fulfillment in living in Israel, and being part of this historical moment in the Jewish saga of survival. She was also an activist for scores of unrecognized causes, often doing mitzvahs (secret kindnesses and charitable acts). She organized and financed a support group for those suffering from depression that served both Arabs and Jews. With her family she helped organize and finance the Yad Gedaliah agency which provides support programs for at-risk youth, financial help for soldiers to obtain education, personal needs for soldiers' families and offers programs to assist bereaved military families and broken families in crisis. Pearl died in 2006, just days before her 50th OA high school reunion which she was planning to attend and had helped plan. Pearl is remembered as a Pioneer, Scholar and Mentor.

Pearl Pearlson Skolnik, '56 - 2011 Hall of Fame

Pearl Pearlson Skolnik, '56 - Pearl began school in Alabama's two-room school, graduating OACS in 1956 at the age of 16. Pearl's parents sent her to study and work in a kibbutz in Israel for one year after which she used her NYS scholarship to study at the University of Buffalo, where she earned a BA in History and Government, graduating Magna Cum Laude. Pearl taught Hebrew at local synagogues and organized a socialist Zionist youth movement in Buffalo at the same time. In 1961 she moved to NYC where she organized the same movement in that city, and worked in the advertising department of a publishing company.

Pearl married Fred Skolnik in 1962. She worked that year as a teacher at a school in Brooklyn. In 1963 Pearl and Fred moved to Israel, living in Jerusalem, where they worked for Israel Program for Scientific Translations translating and editing technical books from Russian to English for the United States Government.

From 1964 to 1965 Pearl pursued a Master's Degree with graduate studies in Jewish History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1974 Pearl helped organize the 50 year Jubilee at the Technion in Haifa (Israel Institute of Technology) where she helped set up the Samuel Neaman Institute of Advanced Studies. She continued her education with graduate studies in History of the Jewish People at Haifa University in Haifa from 1976 through 1978.

While Pearl and Fred raised three children, she formed Pearl Skolnik Realty acting as CEO until illness forced her to pass the management to her nephew. She assisted thousands of Jews to make their aliya to Israel from England and the United States, including four of her sisters. "Her highest standards of ethics and morality made her a most trusted leader in the real estate world of Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh. Her desire to help people move to the Holy Land was so altruistic that clients ranged from dignitaries and celebrities to religious leaders to newlyweds starting out on their own." Pearl did not just sell a property she mentored her clients to find an appropriate community where they would be successful in their move. Pearl lived the life of a minority in our community and was often the brunt of physical and verbal insults. She drew on the strength she developed from this to assist her multi-national clients to assimilate into a new culture.

When Pearl moved to Israel she did not turn her back on America, but turned her face toward the developing nation that was to become her new home. She had been raised to love America because her father and his sisters were saved when they were able to leave Russian Poland. More than 300 members of her father's family were murdered by the Nazis because they could not leave Poland.

Pearl is remembered for contributing in her own way to the building of the country of Israel which was but a few years old when she began her Zionist work. There is a street named after her in one of the new neighborhoods in Jerusalem .She felt great fulfillment in living in Israel, and being part of this historical moment in the Jewish saga of survival.

She was also an activist for scores of unrecognized causes, often doing mitzvahs (secret kindnesses and charitable acts). She organized and financed a support group for those suffering from depression that served both Arabs and Jews. With her family she helped organize and finance the Yad Gedaliah agency which provides support programs for at-risk youth, financial help for soldiers to obtain education, personal needs for soldiers' families and offers programs to assist bereaved military families and broken families in crisis.

Pearl died in 2006, just days before her 50th OA high school reunion which she was planning to attend and had helped plan. Pearl is remembered as a Pioneer, Scholar and Mentor.

Paul Schroeder, '80 - 2011 Hall of Fame
	*Paul Schroeder, '80* - Paul W. Schroeder believes OACS was the first place he really had to survive and thrive in a "sighted" world. Four years after graduating from OACS in 1980, Paul graduated cum laude with a degree in International Studies and Political Science from The American University, in Washington DC. Paul considers himself fortunate to have a successful career focused on advocacy and policy development, especially related to technology access for people with disabilities. He began this work in the mid-1980s in an advocacy office for persons with disabilities created by the Governor of Ohio. During this time he helped lead efforts to educate Ohioans regarding the need for reform in healthcare and long-term care, and he also led grassroots efforts to secure Ohio Congressional support for enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. Later, with the American Council of the Blind in Washington DC, Paul led efforts to ensure that ADA regulations reflected the interests of people with vision loss, including requirements for detectable warnings along the edges of transit platforms and strong requirements for accessible (Braille and large print) signage. He also led efforts to negotiate precedent-setting legislative language that would eventually be enacted in 1996 to ensure that telecommunications equipment and services would be made accessible to people with disabilities. During the late 90s, working with the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), Paul led efforts to persuade Microsoft to improve the accessibility of its technology for people with disabilities. Since that time, still with AFB, he has returned to Washington DC and worked to pass legislation that requires publishers to provide textbooks in electronic files that can be converted into formats usable by elementary and high school students with vision loss. Paul also led efforts to more than double federal funding for services to assist older persons experiencing vision loss. Recently, he worked with a coalition of disability organizations to enact comprehensive legislation requiring advanced Internet-connected communications technologies and television equipment and programs to be accessible for people with disabilities. On October 8, 2010 Paul was present when President Obama signed the law, known as the Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010. Paul is a person with a lifelong, visible disability - blindness. This did not stop him from holding a job, raising children, owning a home and other manifestations of the "American Dream". Paul believes living successfully with a disability is not uncommon and not, in itself, heroic. He has tried to "live" with a disability, succumbing neither to pathos nor obsession, but rather pursuing interests, parenting children, being a partner with his wife, and engaging in civic activities.

Paul Schroeder, '80 - 2011 Hall of Fame

Paul Schroeder, '80 - Paul W. Schroeder believes OACS was the first place he really had to survive and thrive in a "sighted" world.

Four years after graduating from OACS in 1980, Paul graduated cum laude with a degree in International Studies and Political Science from The American University, in Washington DC.

Paul considers himself fortunate to have a successful career focused on advocacy and policy development, especially related to technology access for people with disabilities.

He began this work in the mid-1980s in an advocacy office for persons with disabilities created by the Governor of Ohio. During this time he helped lead efforts to educate Ohioans regarding the need for reform in healthcare and long-term care, and he also led grassroots efforts to secure Ohio Congressional support for enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990.

Later, with the American Council of the Blind in Washington DC, Paul led efforts to ensure that ADA regulations reflected the interests of people with vision loss, including requirements for detectable warnings along the edges of transit platforms and strong requirements for accessible (Braille and large print) signage. He also led efforts to negotiate precedent-setting legislative language that would eventually be enacted in 1996 to ensure that telecommunications equipment and services would be made accessible to people with disabilities.

During the late 90s, working with the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), Paul led efforts to persuade Microsoft to improve the accessibility of its technology for people with disabilities. Since that time, still with AFB, he has returned to Washington DC and worked to pass legislation that requires publishers to provide textbooks in electronic files that can be converted into formats usable by elementary and high school students with vision loss.

Paul also led efforts to more than double federal funding for services to assist older persons experiencing vision loss. Recently, he worked with a coalition of disability organizations to enact comprehensive legislation requiring advanced Internet-connected communications technologies and television equipment and programs to be accessible for people with disabilities. On October 8, 2010 Paul was present when President Obama signed the law, known as the Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010.

Paul is a person with a lifelong, visible disability - blindness. This did not stop him from holding a job, raising children, owning a home and other manifestations of the "American Dream".

Paul believes living successfully with a disability is not uncommon and not, in itself, heroic. He has tried to "live" with a disability, succumbing neither to pathos nor obsession, but rather pursuing interests, parenting children, being a partner with his wife, and engaging in civic activities.