The Farrell Alumni Hall of Fame inducted 10 graduates, one of them posthumously, during its 3rd annual dinner Saturday, Oct. 20, in the cafeteria at the high school with more than 125 in attendance. The inductees are:

Kathy (Yankevich) Bialk

Kathy (Yankevich) Bialk, who graduated from Farrell High School in 1979, is the director of student financial services for Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa.

Before arriving at Mercyhurst in July 2006, Kathy served in administrative capacities in several institutions of higher learning in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

She earned a bachelor’s degree from Alliance College in Cambridge Springs, Pa. in 1983 and a master’s from Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J. in 1994. She spent a year abroad in 1983-84 at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, after receiving the Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship.

She was director of residence life at Alliance in 1984-85 and a year later was named the college’s director of financial aid.

For four months in 1986, she served as financial aid adviser for DeVry College of Technology in North Brunswick, N.J. and then as senior financial aid adviser until May 1987.

She was named assistant director of financial aid at Rider in May 1987 and held that position until February 1989, when she was named director.

In July 1993, she left Rider for a similar job at Union County College in Cranford, N.J., until April 1997, when she left to become the director of student financial aid services at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. She served NJIT in that job until July 2006, when she arrived at Mercyhurst..

Kathy, a featured speaker at programs throughout the country during her career, lives in Edinboro with her husband, Mirolslaw.

Louis J. Morocco

Louis J. Morocco, who graduated from Farrell High School in 1938 and served as the district’s superintendent from 1970-1983, is the 2007 Alumni Hall of Fame’s posthumous honoree.

He earned a bachelor’s degree from Thiel College in 1947 and a master’s degree from Columbia University in 1948. He did doctoral studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned his superintendent’s certification from the University of Pittsburgh.