Linda (Higginbotham) Schaller
Linda (Higginbotham) Schaller graduated from Potosi High School in 1968.
Linda (Higginbotham) Schaller is a video Producer-Director who tells character driven stories that are visual, dramatic and inspiring. A four-time Emmy winner, Linda focuses her documentaries and entertainment specials on the arts, history and now medical science with the documentary, “A Spark of Nerve.” Linda is the Producer-Director and her husband Tim is the DP, Editor, Animator and colorist. It is their personal story and follows Dr. Susan Mackinnon of Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis as she restores movement to limbs that many doctors believe to be permanently paralyzed. The film is distributed through Public Television Stations and Kanopy Streaming.
Her awards include: Producer-Director of “And Then One Night: the Making of the opera Dead Man Walking” (PBS). It received a National Emmy nomination and a Northern California Emmy. The performance documentary “Kicking the Notes the Toradze Way” (PBS), won two Chicago Emmys and honors at the Golden Prague Festival. “Nijinska: A Legend in Dance” (PBS), with host Mikhail Baryshnikov, won the prestigious Grand Prix Video Dance International Documentary Award in Paris. Northern California Emmys for the comedy special, “Dead Pan Alley” (PBS) and the dance special “Women Song” (PBS). Linda was additionally honored to create short historical documentaries for the PBS “Great Performances: The Nutcracker” as well as for San Francisco Opera, Beach Blanket Babylon, San Francisco Ballet and American Ballet Theater gala events.
She is presently working with the San Francisco Dance Film Festival as a Project Producer.
Dr. Linmarie Sikich
Dr. Linmarie Sikich has been selected for induction in the Potosi Trojan Hall of Fame for the class of 2021-22. Dr. Sikich is a 1977 graduate of Potosi High School.
While at Potosi High School Linmarie was Valedictorian for the Class of 1977 as well as being the Senior Class President. She was in National Honor Society; Trojan Band; Glee Club; publications; photography; worked as a library helper; attended Freedom Forum among many other accolades. Dr. Sikich was also recognized with honors in the Junior Science Symposium, National Merit Finalist; U.S. Senate Youth Program Semifinalist; Presidential Scholar Finalist among others.
She went on to earn a bachelor’s, master’s, and medical doctoral degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and there she began her career as a postdoctoral fellow in Neurodevelopment. She went on to work at Yale University as a General Psychiatry Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow, and Postdoctoral Fellow in Child Psychiatry Research. She then went on to gain full professorship in the Psychiatry Department at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Dr. Sikich now works in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Department at the Duke University School of Medicine. She is board certified in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, served for five years as the Medical Director of the Duke Autism Clinic, and currently serves as both the Associate Director of the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development and the Duke Clinical Research Institute-Autism and Developmental Disorders program lead in the Neuroscience Medicine Unit. She has published nearly 75 articles in peer reviewed journals such as the Lancet Psychiatry, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of Child Adolescent Psychopharmocology; further, she has written nearly 18 published book chapter.
Janet Bub Strange
Janet Bub Strange graduated from Potosi high School in 1959 where she was active in many activities. After graduating from William Jewel in 1963, Mrs. Strange started a career in education that has spanned 48 years. She served as a teacher and counselor in the Potosi R-3 School District from 1965 through 1970 and graduated with an M.A. in Guidance & Counseling from Southeast Missouri State University in 1973. After working as a counselor throughout the state, in 1984, Mrs. Strange worked with Division of Highway Safety to establish PROJECT GRADUATION in Missouri. She then went on to help train high schools throughout Missouri, Arkansas, and South Carolina in establishing PROJECT GRADUATION. Mrs. Strange was Treasurer of the Missouri Guidance Association from 1974-1978, appointed liaison to Community Drinking & Driving Prevention Grant in 1982, and honored as Outstanding Counselor of the Year, Southwest Missouri Counselor Association and Missouri Counselor Association in 1983. She facilitated a weekly community grief group for young widows and widowers in Springfield, MO, from 1985 -2000, was a member of the steering committee to establish RARE BREED, a youth drop-in center and temporary housing for homeless youth in Springfield, MO, in 2001, and from 2000-present is a member of the steering and advisory committees to establish and sustain LOST AND FOUND GRIEF CENTER in Springfield, MO.
Jacob Swearingen
Class 3 Cross Country
Individual Champion 2007 – 2008
Team Champion – 2007
1600 Meter – 2009
3200 Meter – 2008 – 2009