Flags and Friday Nights
May character be the order of the day; on this and all the World's fields.
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CFVFW Student Color Guard Leader Honor Roll
· Teig Ratcliff - October 24, 2025
· Maryanne Golden – October 10, 2025
· Mya Mihalek - October 3, 2025
· Thomas Shoecraft - September 19, 2025
· Austin Shoecraft - September 19, 2025
· Brody Schron - August 22, 2025
· Lilly Maschke - October 18, 2024
· Charlie Stewart - September 27, 2024
· Jacob Crago - September 13, 2024
· Zack Flaiz - September 6, 2024
· Tiernan Moloney - August 23, 2024
· Aleena Aniev - October 20, 2023
· Ethan Nelson - October 13, 2023
· Augusta Halle - October 13, 2023
· Kenny Kang - September 22, 2023
· Dane Lyle - August 25, 2023
October 24, 2025: Student Color Guard Leader and Chagrin Falls Eighth Grader Teig Ratcliff. Teig honored Robert F. Plazek class of 49. Robert, a U.S. Army soldier killed in action on June 12, 1952, during the Korean War.
October 10, 2025: Maryanne Golden, eighth grade and student color guard leader raised our flag in honor of Ronald K. McDowell '64. Ron died in a training accident while on active duty with the Army.
October 3, 2025: Student Color Guard Leader Mya Mihalek, eighth grade, raised the flag in honor of Army Sergeant First Class Wade Groth 65' who is still missing in action in Vietnam.
Wade went missing when the MEDIVAC helicopter he was crewing crashed during a nighttime rescue mission on February 12, 1968.
September 19, 2025: Austin Shoecraft (Chagrin Falls Schools Sixth grade) and brother Thomas (Second grade) as CFVFW Student Color Guard Leaders raised the flag in honor of 1962 Chagrin Falls graduate and Marine Corps Aviator Norman Billipp. In Vietnam in 1969 Norman went missing in action after his plane crashed during a reconnaissance mission. Twenty-seven years later Norman’s crash site was located, and his remains were returned home.
August 22, 2025: Brody Schron Chagrin Falls Schools Eighth grade student and now a CFVFW Student Color Guard Leader raised the flag in honor of 1977 Chagrin Falls graduate and Marine Corps Aviator Dave Riegal who died on active duty in 1985 as a result of an aviation training incident.
October 18, 2024: Lilly Maschke Chagrin Falls Schools Eighth grade student and CFVFW Student Color Guard Leader raised the flag in honor of 1980 Chagrin Falls graduate Jeffery T. Abromaitis, U.S. Air Force, who died while on active duty.
September 27, 2024: Chagrin Falls Schools Eighth grade student and CFVFW Student Color Guard Leader Charlie Stewart raised the flag in honor of 1981 Chagrin Falls graduate Mark Rullman, USMC, who died while on active duty.
September 13, 2024: Chagrin Falls Schools First grade student Jacob Crago and CFVFW Student Color Guard Leader in training raised the flag in honor of Michael Kashkioush. Michael was a 2001 graduate of Chagrin Falls and was killed in Action on January 23, 2007, while serving during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
September 6, 2024: CFVFW Student Color Guard Leader and Chagrin Falls High School Junior Zack Flaiz raised the flag in honor of Aaron Fox. Aaron (Lefty) was a World War II Marine veteran who fought in Guadalcanal, Guam and survived Iwo Jima and was a founding member of CFVFW Post 12067.
August 23, 2024: CFVFW Student Color Guard Leader, Chagrin Falls Middle School seventh grade student Tiernan Moloney prepares to raise the flag in honor of Bascom Biggers III. Bascom was a World War II Army veteran who fought in and survived the Battle of the Bulge.
October 20, 2023: Student Color Guard Leader and Chagrin Falls Schools Freshman Aleena Aniev prepares to raise our flag in honor of service personnel and first responders during the playing of our national anthem.
February 23, 1945, eighteen-year-old Marine Aaron Fox witnessed the raising of our flag on Iwo Jima. On September 2, 2011, Mr. Fox (Lefty) raised the first flag on the CFVFW Flagpole...
October 13, 2023, Mr. Fox passed our great flag to future generations. Student Color Guard Leaders Hawken Senior, Augusta Halle and Chagrin Falls Schools Sophomore, Ethan Nelson respectfully accepted.
In picture - Mr. Fox accompanied by CFVFW members Bill Oneill and Brian Morrison.
September 22, 2023: Chagrin Falls Schools Sixth grade student and CFVFW Student Color Guard Leader Kenny Kang is presented with a Post challenge coin after having had the honor of raising our great flag at Homecoming 2023.
August 25, 2023: Led by Chagrin Falls Schools Sixth grade student Dane Lyle, the impromptu student color guard for the night's flag raising included (from left) Daria Kuzmenko, Olivia Horvath, Ivy Levey, Ava Horvath, Katie Sirianni, Gabrielle Byrne, Dominic Giordano, and Brody Schron.
Honorable Mention:
Charlie Barch
Connie Miralia
Dan Angelino
Duncan Lyle
Eric Klosky
Kristy Boss
Laila Discenza
Stu von Hoch
Thaddeus Quintin
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Regardless of the school a student attends, if they live in the Chagrin Falls Schools District (home school included) they may request to be a CFVFW Student Color Guard Leader.
As there are very few games each year, the process begins with the student’s respective school counselor. Home school children’s parents may act in the counselor’s capacity.
