Two retired Mansfield City Schools educators and two city departments will be announced as Castle Wall honorees Friday night at Arlin Field.
A brief program before the start of the Senior High-Wooster football game will recognize:
-- Rod Bogner, who served as an elementary and junior high music and choir teacher between 1970 and 1999. He also coached several elementary and middle school basketball teams. He was varsity assistant and freshman boys basketball coach at Malabar High School from 1978 to 1980.
-- Lowell Smith, whose 35-year career included service to the district as a teacher, executive director of personnel and member and president of the board of education.
-- The Mansfield Police Department and the Mansfield Fire Department, whose safety and mentoring programs and financial donations serve students at all levels.
The names of all four honorees will be added to the Castle Wall plaque, which bears the inscription “The heart and soul of our community.”
The Castle Wall, located behind Arlin Field’s east end zone, is named in honor of retired Mansfield City Schools administrator Doug Castle. The wall was constructed in 2011 from limestone blocks that formed the perimeter of the Mansfield High School that once stood on the northwest corner of West Fourth and Bowman streets.
Previous wall honorees include Jim Day, Gene Earick, Jack Lehman, Johnny Marsh, Judge Jeff Payton, Dr. Ted Sazdanoff, Johnny Givand, Dr. Donald L. Dewald, Mrs. Inez Shepard and fallen Mansfield City Police Officers Chuck Norris and Brian Evans.