Harold Dean Hart was born in Alva, Kentucky, in 1940, the eldest son of a coal miner, He spent most of his early life in Gray, Ky.  He was valedictorian at Lynn Camp High School in Corbin Ky, where he was the captain of the basketball team both his junior and senior years.

             He attended Cumberland College in Williamsburg Kentucky, from 1958-1962 where he graduated with honors and earned a teaching degree in mathematics and history. Dean put himself through college by working for an antique furniture dealer starting in his sophomore year in high school and working  for six years around his academic schedule.  

             Dean taught at Williamsburg High School in Williamsburg Ky, for one year before being recruited to teach in Goshen.  He married his high school sweetheart Sharon Maloney and they both went to work for the Goshen Local Schools in 1963.  They each earned a monthly gross salary of three hundred dollars.      

             In 1968, Dean completed work on his master's degree at Ohio State University, where he received an honorary stipend to finance the degree. He remained at Goshen High for twenty -nine years as a math instructor and as athletic director until he retired in 1992. Dean taught every math course Goshen ever offered at one time or another, starting with basic math, general math, business math and later teaching advance math and his favorite course, geometry, and even tutoring individually some gifted students in calculus.  Dean served as Goshen's athletic director for twenty-seven years while teaching a full load of classes, a minimum of four different classes, every year of his career.  He voluntarily aided the athletic department for the three years following his retirement while his wife served as the athletic director.

            Dean considers his greatest achievement the rearing of his two fine sons, Gregory and Geoffrey, who are both successful high school math teachers in Dayton, Ohio and Milford, Ohio, respectively. He has the daughter he didn't have in a wonderful daughter-in- law Elaine, and is the proud grandfather of three children, Taylor, Lytia, and Evan.

             Dean spends six months of each year in Clearwater, Florida, where he captains two shuffleboard teams and comes home to Goshen for six months to plant and harvest a large garden and to watch his grandchildren play sports and spend time golfing and watching sports and visiting his two sons.

Sharon Maloney Hart

      Sharon M. Hart was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the eleventh child of fourteen born to Irish parents who were a teacher, Kroger store manger, real estate agent, salesman, church pianist, Sunday school teachers and artist.  She felt she got little  of their talents but loved language arts and mathematics and worked hard at excelling in both.

             She graduated from Lynn Camp High school in Corbin Ky and immediately started attending summer school in order to complete a three year math/English program at Cumberland College in Williamsburg, Ky. She was able to earn her degree in teaching  with high honors with certification in mathematics and English language by attending summer school each of those years

           Sharon was recruited by Goshen's superintendent along with her then new husband Harold Hart, to teach at the Goshen High School and was given a schedule of eight freshman English classes with  between 31 and 39 students in each class.  She survived that first year and went on to teach most every language course taught at Goshen and starting her third year began teaching mathematics also, beginning with an Algebra 1 program.

            She taught Algebra 1 for thirty years and every other math course offered also, including Advance Math and Calculus for twelve consecutive years from 1984 through 1995 when she retired and had the privilege of also teaching Advance Placement English for seniors and many other language arts classes daily and thus claimed to never ever to had a dull or repetitive schedule.  Many years she had five preparations for the school day and never fewer than four different course to teach even as she acted as athletic director late in her career.

         Sharon co-sponsored with her husband Dean Hart the academic team, the War of the Wits program, for eight years, 1988 through 1995.  Sharon also served as Athletic Director for three years after Dean Hart retired.  Those assignments kept her busy at school for many hours before and after the school day and afforded her many enjoyable and cherished experiences with students , parents and community.

           For almost twenty years of her tenure at Goshen High School. The Board of Education  permitted Sharon to escort her own and other interested students to theatrical and artistic events and performances . She took her students to hear Maya Angelou speak, to see most of the major plays preformed at Playhouse in the Park and at many other venues which were wondrous experiences for those young people and their chaperones.  She still gets letters once in a while from students who continue to love the arts and who remember the outings and camaraderie fondly.

          Sharon had such great days and weeks and years with all those language and mathematics students and assignments and the those extracurricular, the academic competitions and bus trips to matches and long practices, the sometimes weekly outing  to plays or performance, the athletic events at both junior and high school and the planning there for, that she considered her career fun and fulfilling and complete when she retired after thirty -two years in the classroom.  She states that she has no major regrets and would do it all again just about the same ways as she did things pretty much HER WAY then.

          The greatest pleasures , the best products of Sharon's life, are her two sons, Gregory and Geoffrey Hart, whom she reared with her husband Dean Hart.  They are happy and successful high school mathematics teachers and she now has three great grand children Taylor, Lytia and Evan, whom she adores and sees frequently.  She now has the daughter she missed having in Greg's wife Elaine, who is a special education teacher at West Milton high School in Ohio.

         Sharon spends six months each year in Clearwater Florida, enjoying the sun and warm activities and returns in early April to be where her home and heart of the past for over fifty years.