Mentor High Alumni Hall Of Fame Welcomes Newest Class
Seven distinguished Mentor graduates form the 16th Alumni Hall of Fame class
Rocco Whalen -- Mentor High graduate, owner and chef of the acclaimed Fahrenheit restaurant in Tremont, and one of the newest inductees into his alma mater's alumni hall of fame -- chatted with senior Jacob Simko as they walked the hallways of Mentor High Thursday morning. "Do you cook?" Whalen asked. Simko humbly replied that he could make some things -- mostly breakfast dishes like French toast and from-scratch hash browns. "That's good," Whalen said without condescension. "What's important is you get the philosophy of cooking." That was just one of the tidbits of wisdom offered by the 2012 Mentor High Alumni Hall of Fame class as they visited their former stomping grounds Thursday. The 16th class of HOF inductees include Whalen, Thomas …
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