2020 Hall of Fame Inductee Coleman Hawkins attended THS around 1920, a saxophonist. Born in 1904 in St. Joseph MO, he began studying piano at

2020 Hall of Fame Inductee Charles Scott Sr., class of 1940, and John Scott, class of 1937, two of the three attorneys who filed the

2020 Hall of Fame Inductee Charles Scott Sr., class of 1940, and John Scott, class of 1938, two of the three attorneys who filed the

2019 Hall of Fame Inductee Shakespearean scholar. His activities at Topeka High demonstrated that Gary Taylor’s future lay with “words”: Debate, Pres. NFL at THS,

2019 Hall of Fame Inductee Student. Artist. David Hicks Overmyer (1889-1973) was a Topeka High student, but might not have formally graduated. That was a

2019 Hall of Fame Inductee Public Administrator. A Trojan winner; from the 1986 State Basketball Championship squad and 1987 Homecoming King to “king of Dallas”!

2018 Hall of Fame Inductee Music and school politics is the stuff that makes medical researchers; or, in the case of Stephen Young. At Topeka

2018 Hall of Fame Inductee If it weren’t for Pete Woodward’s grandfather on the Board of Education, Chester Woodward, he and all Trojans would have

2018 Hall of Fame Inductee Jean Eberhart’s THS resume under “school activities” may well have been the longest for any member of the Class of

2017 Hall of Fame Inductee Business executive. At Topeka High Ray Powers played the clarinet in the “Gold Band”. After graduation, like many a male