CLEVELAND, Ohio — I don’t expect to get inducted into the Glenville High School Hall of Fame. Heck, I’m uncertain my alma mater has one. But if it does, I think Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, teenagers who created “ Superman ,” mathematician Ray Solomonoff , former Mayor Michael R. White, actor Ron O’Neal and journalist Hal Lebovitz are enshrined.

My emotions lean toward sentimental whenever I hear a public high school — or a college — has honored men and women who weren’t athletic stars. They got their due elsewhere.

So, I turned misty-eyed after I heard John Marshall High School had inducted a friend of mine into its Hall of Fame last month. I hope Marshall alumni realize what an extraordinary choice their latest honoree was.

I do.

Not many people I’ve befriended have come t

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