Holy Name High School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Frank Solich, Ohio University head football coach and former head coach of the University of Nebraska, leading them to the 2001 national championship game. Featured on a 1965 cover of Sports Illustrated.
• Findley University wrestling all American Ray Hegardy.
• John Ducas, Class of 1937, a communications consultant with the Chase Manhattan Bank who in the 1950s and 60's was a principal adviser in the public relations program for the nation's first intercontinental ballistic missiles.
• Dan Marini, Class of 1938. Highly decorated vet of the United States Marine Corps. As a member of the 4th Marine Div. was awarded the Navy Cross at the Battle of Iwo Jima after repeatedly exposing himself to hostile fire, Sergeant Marini led his platoon toward its objective until enemy machine-gun and mortar fire rendered further progress impossible. Crawling alone seventy-five yards ahead of his platoon, he reduced the Japanese machine gun position with rifle fire and grenades and, subsequently discovering an enemy mortar position which had been shelling his company, advanced on it alone until he was close enough to destroy it by grenades, thereby enabling his platoon to continue its advance until the objective was taken. Dan also won the Silver Star in Korea when the then Lt.Marini led 40 marines to capture Hill 712 in Korea near Imjin River. He received a Silver Star in 1997.
• Francis Talty, Class of 1938, long time Cuyahoga Common Pleas Court judge. Presided over the Sam Sheppard trial. Also a member of the John Carroll University athletic hall of fame.
• Bob Ptacek former football player at University of Michigan, also played for the Cleveland Browns and was an All Star in the CFL
• Jeff Grzeskowiak, Class of 1997, former football player at the University of Akron, and also spent time with the Chicago Bears from 2002–03, and spent 2 years playing in NFL Europe with the Amsterdam Admirals and the Berlin Thunder as an Offensive Lineman.
• Chris Broussard, sports journalist, contributor to ESPN, New York Times, and TrueHoop
• Richard "Dick" Steeno (Class of 1938) won Siver Star in Wurzburg Germany (April 1945) as Field Artillery Forward Observer of 42nd. Rainbow Division by directing accurate fire into a significant group of German soldiers who surrounded the U.S troops and had requested their surrender. Also later awarded Army Commendation Award for arrangements for the Austrian War Crimes trials in Salzburg which tried Austrian citizens who killed U.S. Airmen following their parachute descent.