The Will Rogers High School Community Foundation will induct a new Will Rogers High School Hall of Fame class on March 27.

The inductees will join rock-and-roll legend the late Leon Russell and S. E. Hinton, author of The Outsiders.

The new inductees include:

• David Finch (class of 1971), a multi-Emmy winning sports cinematographer who revolutionized the way sports are shown on television.
• Walter Stuart Yager (class of 1954), an Air Force Colonel and Commander of Space Launch Squadron, including missions that landed spacecraft on Mars and explored Jupiter and are still sending data from interstellar space.
• Linda Sellen Frazier (Class of 1958), who is an arts and humanities community volunteer leader and a member of the Tulsa Hall of Fame. 
• Frank Marcum (class of 1961), a Tulsa Public Schools teacher who was selected for the Teachers in Space program and completed astronaut training. He later becoming a NASA Ambassador.
• Linda Barton Paul (class of 1969), a concert harpist who has played with major orchestras and such artists as Frank Sinatra and the New Christi Minstrels. She is also an ordained minister and host for U.S. State Department Global Enterprise Programs.
• Ron Woods (class of 1957) is a former music director at Webster High School and Musician. He founded a self-insured medical care company that changed the way employers supply health care in 35 states. He later entered a third career as a philanthropist, establishing the Ron and Carole Woods Foundation.

Members of the Will Rogers High School Hall of Fame are selected by the Will Rogers High School Community Foundation, and they’re honored with a display in the hallways of the school.

The induction ceremony is free and will begin at 9:20 a.m. on March 27. They inductees also be honored at a gala dinner that evening at the Doubletree Hotel Downtown, with tickets on sale through the Will Rogers High School Community Foundation website, www.willrogersfoundation.net

A few years ago, Will Rogers High School became a select magnet school, was re-named the Will Rogers College Junior High and High School, and allows students who meet the entrance requirements to take college classes and graduate with both a diploma and college credit.

The Will Rogers High School Community Foundation enhances educational opportunities for Will Rogers students, and empowers their teachers, families, and the community through charitable contributions.

Board Chairman Rick Miller said, “The all-volunteer Foundation is a community organization, with Roper alums at its heart, but also including individual friends, businesses and other neighbors of the school who collectively have a mission to support the School, faculty, staff and students. While the list of prior inductees into the Rogers Hall of Fame is inspiring, by helping the school provide the best possible educational opportunities to its students, the foundation is working to ensure there will continue to be equally inspiring future inductees.”

Working with Principal Nicolette Dennis, the Foundation has raised a million dollars, which it uses to provide academic grants and other support for academics, arts, athletics and activities. The Foundation funds classroom projects, software, student trips, and science, music and art equipment. There’s a waiting list to enroll in Tulsa Will Rogers. Past luminaries include NBA and NFL athletes, a Broadway actress, ground-breaking medical researchers, and educational leaders and politicians. Former Tulsa Mayor Rodger Randle is the chairman of the Will Rogers High School Hall of Fame Committee.