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A versatile athlete playing football, basketball and running track, Steve earned six letters in his junior and senior years, two in each sport. He played quarterback and defensive safety on the football team his senior year, earning honorable mention all-city. He played guard on the basketball team, and his favorite […]

Bob Swaninger was born at home in Dayton, OH in 1924. He attended local schools, and at Lincoln Junior High, he started his prep school career in athletics in the eighth grade, winning the home room basketball championship. After the next two years at Steele, its students were transferred either […]

Jerry earned 6 varsity letters while at Stivers. In baseball, he was starting 2nd baseman as a freshman on the varsity team and he batted 280 for the season. Jerry moved to shortstop his sophomore and junior years, where he batted 320 as a sophomore and 335 as a junior. […]

Larry Emerick was a versatile athlete during his Stivers years, competing in football and track four years in each sport. Larry was a consistent and reliable track competitor running the 180 Low Hurdles, the 120 High Hurdles, and the High Jump and was the Stivers number one participant in each […]

Robert Mitchell started his freshman year at Stivers in 1969, the same year the Freedom of Enrollment Act was established. He, along with his good friends Stack and Michael, bravely crossed school districts in hope of achieving a banner year at Stivers High School. Once there, they encountered racial riots […]

Mike Violette earned seven varsity letters at Stivers, 2 each in football and track and three in basketball. He was a very promising quarterback in football, but that career was cut short in his sophomore year because of concussions. Mike had an outstanding senior year for the Stivers Tigers basketball […]

Dick Bacher was born in Canton, Ohio, and moved with his family to Dayton as an infant. He attended Belmont Elementary School from grades 1 – 5, then they relocated to Alexandria, Ohio, and he attended Lanier Grade School where his athletic career began. He was a member of the […]

Dick “PeeWee” Shafer played three sports at Stivers: basketball and baseball, but football was by far his best game. At 5’9”, 160 pounds, he was a triple threat who could run, pass, and block but added a fourth dimension with his kicking skill. He was the city’s best punter and […]

Walter Mills was born in Barbourville, Kentucky, and moved to Dayton, Ohio at the age of 6 years. He attended Emerson School in grades 1-7 and Stivers High in grades 8-12. Walter had a great athletic career at Stivers, earning 9 letters: 4 in baseball, 3 in football and 2 […]

Little did Abe and Sarah Schear from Russia think as they set sail out of Bremen on the Maine on September 15, 1903, that they would eventually in 1911 settle on Samuel Street in Dayton, Ohio’s east end and bring up a family of two girls and six boys who […]