The 2026 Paulding Exempted Village Schools Academic Hall of Fame induction will take place at the PHS Graduation ceremony on Sunday, May 17, beginning at 2:30 in the High School Gym. The following former Auglaize-Brown and Paulding High School graduates will be inducted:
Betty Schlatter, CNM PhD – Auglaize-Brown High School Class of 1966
Betty Schlatter graduated from Auglaize-Brown High School in 1966 as valedictorian and a member of the National Honor Society. She wanted to be a nurse from as early as fourth grade and attended Toledo Hospital School of Nursing (THSN) with the benefit of an Allstate Foundation Scholarship for three years. At graduation, she was awarded the Edna E. Sharritt award from THSN. She worked as a nurse in various areas for ten years before attending grad school for nurse-midwifery. Her first job was in medical-surgical nursing at Paulding County Hospital where she then transferred to the Operating Room and Recovery Room before transferring to Defiance Hospital’s Operating Room for several months and then attending a program in Toledo to work in the ICU/CCU when Defiance opened their unit. Betty then attended Defiance College and later Bowling Green State University to complete her BSN. Once that was completed, she was asked to teach at Northwest Technical College in Archbold in the Buckeye School of Practical Nursing. She then transferred to the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo to teach maternity nursing and learned about nurse-midwifery.
Betty moved to Oak Park, IL in the Fall of 1979 to attend the nurse-midwifery program at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Upon completion, she was awarded a graduate fellowship and taught in the midwifery program until she was hired as Director of Nurse-Midwifery at Illinois Masonic Medical Center where she worked as Director for seven years, then as staff nurse-midwife while also serving as the Coordinator of the Nurse-Midwifery Education Program for several years at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Once retired from the Coordinator position at UIC, she continued to work as a staff nurse-midwife at IMMC until retirement in 2021, having worked for nearly 40 years at ‘the best nurse-midwifery job in the world.’…