Cliff Bemis

Grew up on a dairy farm outside of Cleveland, in rural Elyria, OH. Cliff was a 1966 graduate of Clearview High School in Lorain, OH, and has been inducted into the CHS Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame. He has established the Cliff Bemis Music Theatre Scholarship at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, OH, from which he graduated in 1970. He is also the recipient of the 1998 Alumni Merit Award. While in college, he was an active member in Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, and was inducted into the Omicron Delta Kappa Honorary Fraternity. He built an extensive and varied career in Cleveland, OH, performing musical theatre, opera, with the Cleveland Opera Co., as well as the related fields of commercial acting which included jingle singing, voice-overs, on-camera and industrial films. He also narrated with the Cleveland Orchestra for their Young People's Concerts. Cliff was one of the original cast members of the musical "Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living in Paris," which played for