…usiness. After graduating from Yale (B.S., 1923), the native Clevelander joined the Union Trust Company and was elected vice president in 1927. The following year, he left to become president of Midland Bank; when Cleveland Trust absorbed Midland, he was appointed executive vice president. In 1941, Sherwin left banking to become a partner of the iron-ore producer Pickands Mather; in 1960, he was named president of that company (later becoming…

…he division head of personnel and public relations. He resigned from Aetna in 1967 to set up an independent agency, Chapman & Chapman, where he served as president until 1982. The fifth-generation family business is now run by his sons. Chapman served as chairman of the Northeast Ohio American Heart Association and the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation. He volunteered as a Cleveland Clinic Ambassador, served for over a decade on the United…

…that included the Red Cross, United Way, Federation for Community Planning and Musical Arts Association. He was on the boards of University Hospitals and St. Vincent Charity Hospital Development Fund Company. He was a life trustee of Notre Dame College and a major fundraiser and trustee for his alma mater, DePauw University (class of 1939), and also served as a trustee of John Carroll University and Laurel and Glen Oak schools. He was the…

Before the United States entered World War I, John Closey Virden Jr. (1897–1981), then a student at University School, attempted to join the French air corps. His desire to serve would have to wait until May 1917, a month after the U.S. declared war on Germany, when Cleveland’s volunteer Lakeside Hospital Unit was the first to arrive in France. He was attached to the French army for training, winning his pilot’s wings, then…

Georgia-born Frederick M. Coleman (1917–1989) came to Cleveland with his family as a child and attended the city’s public schools, graduating from East High School in 1936. After serving in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II, Coleman was a lieutenant in the Officers’ Reserve Corps and then a member of the Ohio National Guard and Army Reserve. In 1949, he graduated from Western Reserve University with a degree in business…

…n studied history at Oxford University before taking on teaching positions at two girls’ schools in New England. In 1900, Sherwin returned to Cleveland and became the first president of the Consumers League of Ohio. A trustee of the Federation for Charity and Philanthropy, she was a tireless civic planner who helped design a parallel organization, the Cleveland Welfare Council, to coordinate the work of the city’s social service…