University of Findlay

Retired from Mt. Pleasant Area Schools in Pennsylvania, Norman Russel taught 5^th and 6^th grade science and health for 24 years. He also served as a junior high school football coach and high school golf coach, and he started the school’s junior high school wrestling program, which won the conference championship only three years later. “Norm” has been active in his community, serving in many leadership positions of the local education association, chaplain of the American Legion, member of the Elks and Rotary clubs, little league baseball coach, secretary of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church and a Sunday school teacher. He also graduated as class valedictorian from the crime study center at Indiana Univ. in PA, and went on to serve as a part-time police officer. At Findlay College, Norm lettered four years in football and participated in both baseball and track one year. He served as class president his sophomore and senior years, was treasurer of Varsity “F,” served on the Argus and Black Gold Newspaper staffs and was a member of the Mummers Drama Club and Student Council. Norm’s philosophy on the value of sports is that “Sports promote a healthy body, and a healthy mind.” Norman and his wife Charlotte (Rodgers ’50) have been married 42 years and their three children – Jodiene, Jeffery and Kirk.