Gov. Phil Bredesen will be the speaker at the banquet to be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at Heritage High School.
Alumni being honored are Joe Ingram of Alcoa High, Ron Talbott of Heritage High, Bill Dunlap of Friendsville High and Kenneth Cornett of Maryville High, Times Editor Dean Stone announced.
The banquet is held to honor top students in the five high schools in The Times' circulation area. The Wall of Fame program was begun in 1996 to recognize graduates from high schools, present and past, in the four school systems. It is a way of helping today's students see the opportunities for professional achievement and service to their community, state and nation.
The honorees:
n B. Kenneth Cornett, a 1959 graduate of Maryville High, is an author, genealogist, historian, preservationist and retired social worker.
A graduate of Temple University, he worked in the Tennessee Department of Human Services for 30 years, including 15 as Blount County director.
He is president of Blount County Genealogical and Historical Society, board chairman of Blount County Historical Museum and on the board of East Tennessee Antique Bottle and Collectibles Society and Historic Sam Houston Schoolhouse. He is co-author of the book "Udderly Blount," a documentation of local dairies.
Recent honors include the National Society, Daughters of American Revolution, Historic Preservation Medal and the East Tennessee Historical Society Award of Distinction for resurrection and preservation of Mt. Moriah Cemetery.
For 42 years he was chairman of the Blount County Community Action Agency, was on the United Way board, a Boy Scout volunteer and organized the local Govenor's Alliance for Drug-Free Tennessee. He has served on the board of Haven House, Blount Council on Aging Advisory Board, Blount County Children's Home and is a 50-year member of Victory Baptist Church where he has served as choir director, youth director, deacon and church treasurer.
He and his wife, Wilda, have two sons, Bryan and Bradley.
n Joe S. Ingram, a 1966 graduate of Alcoa High, is president of Ingram, Overholt and Bean, PC, an organizer of Foothills Bank and Trust and has been an active community volunteer for more than 35 years.
A graduate of UT and Leadership Blount, he has served as president of Alcoa Kiwanis, Maryville-Alcoa Gideons, Blount Memorial Hospital Foundation, and Alcoa Schools Foundation. He received the Silver Beaver Award from the Boy Scouts of America, the highest award bestowed on a volunteer.
Recipient of the Blount County Citizenship Award in 2003 and the Community Leadership Award in 2005, he has served on the board of the Blount County Chamber of Commerce, campaign chairman of the United Way and as treasurer of Broadway Baptist Church and Chilhowee Baptist Association.
He and his wife, Teresa, have two daughters, Jennifer, who is vice president of United Way, and Meredith who lives in North Carolina.
n Bill Dunlap, Blount County Highway Commissioner since 1994, is a 1967 graduate of Friendsville High.
After gaining early experience in construction and roadway materials while working for Harrison Construction Co., Star Construction, and Mechanics Universal Joints in Rockford, Ill., he joined the Blount County Highway Department in 1980. He worked as a mechanic and a welder, eventually being named asphalt supervisor before being elected superintendent.
Responsible for a department with a budget of $6 million, 73 employees, and maintenance of more than 800 miles of roads, he has widened 10 miles of county roads, replaced 23 bridges and implemented a computer maintenance program to track materials and equipment.
A 2000 graduate of Leadership Blount, he was named vice president of the Tennessee County Services Association in 2007 and is scheduled this year to become the first elected official from Blount Country to serve as president of the organization. In 2000, he was inducted into the Who's Who of America as a government administrator. He has served on numerous boards of local organizations, including current service on the board of Historic Sam Houston Schoolhouse.
He and his wife, Judy, have two children, Allison and Shaun.
n Don Talbott, a 1979 graduate of Heritage High, was a student at Everett High when the county consolidated high schools. He played basketball and baseball at Heritage where he was a class officer.
He graduated in 1983 from UT with high honors and a degree in accounting. He is a firm administrator with Coulter Justus, PC, a professional services firm, and is owner of two related firms. He served eight years on the Blount County Board of Education, co-founded the Outward Baseball/Softball program involving Mt. Lebanon and East Maryville Baptist churches. It has grown to 500 children participating from four counties.
A TSSAA football official, he served 14 years on the Eagleton Little League Board of directors and helped manage a budget of $150,000. At East Maryville Baptist Church, he has served as chairman of the deacons, teaches a Sunday school class, sings in the choir, serves as church treasurer with a budget of more than $1 million and participates in mission trips.
A director of the Blount County Chamber of Commerce, he is past president of Downtown Knoxville Civitan Club.
He and his wife, Gina, have two daughters, Hali Beth, a senior at Heritage, and Erin, a sophomore at UT.
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