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and cherishes the foundation laid here for her during her formative years.
“To know now that a little piece of our family will be enshrined in cement in the Dayton Walk of Fame is an unbelievable honor,” she said. “I am proud and grateful beyond words to be from Dayton.”
The Cathy comic strip ran from 1976-2010 and appeared in the Dayton Daily News for all 34 of its years in syndication. “To know that my work was being delivered to Dayton homes meant so much to me,” she told us.
Raised in Oakwood, Janney is perhaps best known for her role as C.J. Cregg on the NBC series “The West Wing,” for which she received four Emmy awards and four Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards.
The former Miami Valley School student and star of stage and screen thanked her parents and a long list of Dayton people and institutions for influencing her and supporting her.
“I feel incredibly grateful, and I will never forget being cemented into the fabric of Dayton, Ohio,” she said.
Hobson, a Republican, was elected to Congress to represent the 7th Congressional District and served from 1991 to 2009.
During his acceptance speech, he said he tried to work with others for the betterment of the people he served.
A dozen members of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, including several U.S. military veterans, accepted the honor on behalf of Tecumseh, who lived from 1768 to 1813. Robert Stewart of the National Park Service’s Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument in Wilberforce accepted the honor for General Davis.
Musician David Boonshoft accepted the honor for his parents, Oscar Boonshoft and Marjorie Boonshoft. The couple’s numerous philanthropic endeavors included: the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, Boonshoft Center for Medical Sciences at Kettering College, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, and the Marjorie and Oscar Boonshoft Center for Jewish Culture and Education.
Since 1996, more than 160 people and groups have been recognized by the Dayton Region’s Walk of Fame. Commemorative stones are on West Third Street in the Wright Dunbar Historic Business District between Broadway and Shannon and along Williams Street as part of the effort sponsored by Wright Dunbar, Inc.