SJM_SouthernExposure_0623_SouthernExposure_11_08 6 / 22 / 23 2 : 26 PM Page 3 Do you know a local person ? NAMES TO KNOW who is doing great things ? Let us know by emailing Carly @ SouthJersey.com . Local people achieving big things in South Jersey and beyond Mariah Groff Christopher Shin Dennis Barth Wade J . Houlihan Adokor Thedison Cherry Hill East’s Shin was one of 161 Gloucester Catholic baseball head Houlihan recently took the oath of of - A Riverside native , Thedison is current - Groff , a junior at Washington Town - high school seniors nationwide distin - coach and Gloucester County resi - fice to become the chief of the Cherry ly serving aboard U.S Navy amphibious ship High School , has been accepted guished as 2023 U.S . Presidential dent Dennis Barth was inducted into Hill Fire Department , taking over for warship USS America in Japan as part into the Governor’s School of New Scholars . The White House Commis - the Gloucester Catholic Hall of Chris Callan , who recently retired . of the Forward Deployed Naval Forces . Jersey at Rutgers University , where sion on Public Scholars selects schol - Fame as part of the inaugural class Houlihan first started in the depart - She is a Petty Officer 2nd Class , and she will be studying engineering this ars annually based on their academic on the same day his team won their ment in 1998 and has been a member joined the Navy five years ago . Thedi - summer . Groff is one of fewer than success , artistic and technical excel - first Diamond Classic title in over 20 ever since , making his way through son works to protect and preserve free - 100 students in the entire state to be lence , essays , school evaluations and years . Gloucester Catholic has won the ranks from lieutenant to captain dom in the Indo - Pacific region . As a accepted into the Governor’s School transcripts , as well as a demonstrated more state championships than any and now chief . He also has been a member of the U.S . Pacific Fleet , she and was nominated by her counselor , commitment to community service school in New Jersey at 20 ; this is lead instructor for recruit classes , de - serves the largest area of responsibility Andra Williams . At the Governor’s and leadership . Shin was selected their seventh Diamond Classic title , partmental training initiatives and in the world . “ I joined the Navy be - School , Groff will have access to re - from among 4,000 candidates nomi - with Barth coaching half of those also teaches modules in the depart - cause I wanted to get more life experi - search projects , guest speakers and nated by school superintendents from championship teams and being a ment’s Fire Officer Apprentice Pro - ence , ” says Thedison . “ I joined after some of the highest - level technology all across the country . player in others . Barth , while coach - gram . one year of college because I didn’t and labs . ing at Gloucester Catholic in 2000 , know what kind of career field I would was recognized as National High like to pursue . Serving in the Navy so School Coach of the Year and also far has given me a better idea of what was Rutger – Camden’s head base - type of career I would like to have . ” ball coach from 2013 to 2019 , be - Thedison added that she learned the coming the winningest coach in valuable lessons of hard work and per - school history . severance from her hometown . SOUTH JERSEY MAGAZINE volume 20 issue 3 SouthJerseyMagazine.com 12 |