MOORHEAD – Two graduates and a retired high school teacher will be inducted Oct. 3 into Moorhead High School's Hall of Honor.
Darvin Miller, who started Moorhead High's automotive program, 1978 graduate Peter Rogness and 1955 graduate Shirley J. Tweten will be honored at a ceremony starting at 5 p.m. at Minnesota State University Moorhead.
Tickets are $20 and must be purchased by Sept. 29.
Contact Dean Haugo in the high school activities office, 2300 4th Ave. S., at (218) 284-2346, to purchase tickets. Purchasers are asked to indicate if they are attending in honor of a certain inductee.
Miller began the high school automotive program in 1970 and taught there until retiring in 2006. The program earned National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation certification in 2002 and became Minnesota's third Automotive Youth Educational Systems program in 2003. He was named the district's Teacher of the Year in 1981 and the Moorhead High Teacher of the Year in 2005.
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Rogness has worked as an art director for film and television for 22 years. He was art director for 28 films and an assistant art director on six other films. He received a 2011 Emmy Award and a 2012 Art Directors Guild Award for his work on the HBO miniseries "Mildred Pierce."
Tweten taught English as a Second Language at Moorhead High from 1984 to 2009. From 1981 to 2010, she also taught evening classes for Moorhead Community Education's Adult Basic Education. She was named the high school's Teacher of the Year in 1992. In 2005, she received the city of Moorhead's Human Rights Award for Education. She died in 2010 at age 73.
Nominations for the Hall of Honor are now being considered for 2016. They are available on the district's web site, www.moorheadschools.org .
Corporate sponsors of the Hall of Honor include Bell State Bank & Trust, Moorhead Public Service and Gate City Bank.
