Fred Clogg (Bellefontaine, OH) After graduating from BHS Fred worked for a year at a local grocery store. In June of 1961 he started classes at Malone University in Canton, Ohio. He worked his way through college doing various jobs in order to pay his tuition. Fred married Vivian in 1964. She is also a graduate of Malone University with a degree in Education. Fred graduated from Malone in 1967. “Yes, I did run cross-country and track for three years and bettered my high school mile time.”

At the time of his graduation Fred was already serving as pastor of the Georgetown and Springdale Friends Churches near Cadiz, Ohio. He served as pastor of these two churches for nine years. During this time Fred continued his education, taught school for four years and adopted two children, Bob and Kim. They moved to Western Ohio. He served as pastor of the Mt. Carmel Friends Church for 24 years. In March of 2000 they moved to Bellefontaine, Ohio and Fred became the visitation pastor at the Goshen Friends Church for the next four years. During this time Vivian retired from teaching after 31 years.

 “Currently I am serving as the pastor of the Bellefontaine Church of the Brethren and have done so since 2005. Vivian and I have been married for 45 years and have two adult children. Our son Bob, wife Lori and three of our grandsons live in Canton, Illinois. Our daughter lives west of Urbana, Ohio and has three children which we care for twice a week. We enjoy working with people, children, traveling and gardening. We also served as foster parents for five years since moving to Bellefontaine, Ohio”.

Fred is looking forward to being at the 50th reunion and renewing old friendships. He has many memories of his high school years “I will share one about Dan Biggs-BHS alumni president.

Dan and I took several classes together in Mr. Becker's shop classes. One day in the 9th grade we got a little carried away and Mr. Becker told us to settle down. We didn't. We were then asked to bend over the shop tables and both Dan and I got to feel Mr. Becker's stick on our bottom side.  It straightened us out and we took several more classes under Mr. Becker and he didn't have any more problems with us. Mr. Becker was a very special teacher and was appreciated by so many.