GREENFIELD — Four more people will be inducted into the Greenfield Central School Foundation’s Hall of Fame, at the annual Red Letter Gala to be held Sept. 25 at Addagios Banquet Hall.
“They’re all really incredible people,” said Ginny Brown, the foundation’s executive director.
This year’s inductees are Edward Milbourn, graduating class of 1957; Charles Goodloe, Jr., 1959; Susan Schultz, 1975; and Jeannie Crowe, 1976.
The gala will be back in person this year, after going virtual last year, but the crowd capacity will be reduced from 400 to 250 people.
Nearly 900 people tuned in to watch last year’s event, which was broadcast live, Brown said.
This year, supporters will be given the choice to attend in person or pay to watch an hour-long video of highlights from the event in the comfort of their homes.
This year marks the 10th gala as well as the 10th anniversary for the school foundation, which puts on the event each year.
The hall of fame dates to 2013, honoring a handful of new inductees each year.
“These (inductees) are all obviously people who have made a big impact on the people around them,” Brown said. “They have set themselves apart from their peers in their fields, in their professional lives and in their communities over the years.”
Hall of fame nominations are open to anyone who graduated from Eden, Maxwell, Hancock, Greenfield and Greenfield-Central high schools.
Here are the 2021 inductees:
Jeannette Crowe
Jeannette (Wilkerson) Crowe is a lifelong Greenfield resident who graduated from Greenfield-Central High School in 1976.
She raised two children while building a career in optical care, but it wasn’t until caring for her father, who had cancer, that she realized her real passion — cultivating hospice care.
After her father died, Crowe went back to college at the age of 40 to study social services. She graduated at the top of her class and went on to earn her master’s degree in social work from Indiana University.
Crowe served as an adjunct professor for the IU School of Social Work for three years, but hospice was her passion. She approached the CEO at Hancock Regional Hospital about creating a hospice unit there, and secured the first major donation to make her dream a reality.
When the hospice unit opened, Crowe served as assistant director and then director for many years. She also helped promote the building of the Sue Ann Wortman Cancer Center at the hospital, where she and her social services staff provided support for cancer patients.
In 2018, the Hancock Regional hospice program was recognized by Strategic Healthcare Programs as a “Superior Performer” for achieving an overall caregiver and family satisfaction score that ranked in the top 20% in the country.
Crowe has continued to speak all over the community to service groups, doctors, churches, senior centers, family and friends, educating people and raising money for hospice care.
She is currently the executive director of Suburban Hospice, Inc. and has been a keynote speaker for hospice services at several national conventions.
Charles Goodloe, Jr.
After leaving his hometown of Greenfield, Charles Goodloe Jr. developed a long and accomplished legal career.
Among the highlights, he was the lead attorney on what turned out to be the final prosecution of the Indiana leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
According to a longtime friend, Senior U.S. District Court Judge Sarah Evans Barker, Charles “was a gifted trial attorney, whose thoroughness in preparation and effectiveness in advocacy before a jury resulted in many successful outcomes.”
After earning a degree in business economics from Indiana University, Goodloe served two years in the U.S. Army and later graduated from law school.
He was hired as a law clerk and soon became the first African-American assistant U.S. attorney ever hired in the Southern District of Indiana, where he worked 37 years up until his retirement in 2008.
His legal career was filled with a diverse caseload reflecting all kinds of federal cases, such as drug prosecutions; bank robberies; securities and bank fraud; tax offenses; gun and explosives violations; kidnappings; interstate thefts; environmental crimes; child pornography; postal violations; draft-dodger cases; police excessive-force prosecutions; homicides within the Terre Haute federal penitentiary; and civil rights violations.
Several colleagues praised Goodloe in an article in the Indiana Lawyer.
“Many of Mr. Goodloe’s cases were complex and took years to investigate and develop. His attention to detail and thoroughness were keys to his trial success,” said former U.S. Attorney and Congresswoman Susan Brooks.
U.S. Attorney Deborah Daniels said: “There’s a dignity about his practice that’s unparalleled.”
Former acting U.S. Attorney Tim Morrison said: “The great thing about Charlie is that he’s what every lawyer should strive to be. He’s a real gentleman, a real standard to younger lawyers.”
Edward M. Milbourn
Edward Milbourn graduated from Greenfield High School in 1957. He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in industrial education from Purdue University.
As a boy growing up in Greenfield, Milbourn joined the Boy Scouts and achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. He performed several local service projects as a young man, including the establishment of the Nameless Creek Youth Camp in Hancock County.
Throughout his lifetime dedication to scouting, Milbourn served in various position within the organization and has been recognized throughout central Indiana for his service.
A longtime engineer at RCA Corp. and its successor, Thomson Multimedia, Milbourn helped introduce the world’s first high-definition televisions, putting Thomson at the forefront of the technology at the time. He also led a team that designed training materials for a program that was presented to 15,000 sales personnel and 10,000 technical employees twice a year. He also helped develop materials that aided service technicians in diagnostic support roles in the company.
Milbourn also received a U.S. patent on Automatic Color Television Picture Optimization, which improved image quality in Thomson’s TVs.
After retirement, Milbourn was a substitute teacher. He also has helped with the aviation program that draws students from Greenfield-Central and Mt. Vernon high schools.
Susan Paxton Schultz
Susan Schultz graduated from Greenfield-Central High School in 1975. She has since accumulated a number of awards and accomplishments in her professional career.
She’s been a member of the Environmental Education Association of Indiana, serving as president and vice president, and has been a member of the North American Association for Environmental Education and the Soil and Water Conservation Society of America.
She won an Outdoor Lab of the Year from Indiana Take Pride in America State, and was named a National Energy & Environment State and National winner.
Schultz also earned the President’s Award from the Environmental Education Association of Indiana in 1995; was an Indianapolis Power & Light Environmental Professional of the Year finalist in 1997; and an IPL Environmental Professional of the Year in 2002.
Schultz has provided training to thousands of teachers and students, and now manages the creative content of environmental education materials and programs that reach a million people each year. She’s developed innovative education approaches that are used across the nation as well as Japan.
Schultz is an active community volunteer, and spent 21 years as a 4-H leader and then project superintendent, and was nominated to be a part of the Hancock County 4-H Agricultural Association board.
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To make reservations for the gala or to learn about sponsorship opportunities, visit the G-C School Foundation’s website at www.gcschoolfoundation.org/?page_id=2277. Those interested in learning more can also call 317-477-4103.
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