The Bull Dog Alumni Association Hall of Fame honored the 2023 Bull Dog Alumni Hall of Fame inductees Harold Force and Dr. Tami Stone Iorio prior to Columbus North’s homecoming football game Friday night.
Force, Class of 1969 and Iorio, Class of 1990, were honored at a 5 p.m. reception followed by a program that also honored the 2023 Columbus North High School Outstanding Teachers of the Year.
Music was provided by the 25th Street Singers.
Force has serves as president and chairman of Force Construction Co. and founded Force Design, Inc. He received his bachelor and master’s degrees from Purdue University in civil engineering and has professional engineering registration in 13 states.
He received the Purdue Civil Engineering Alumni Achievement Award and the Purdue Civil Engineering Alumni Association Service Award.
Force led the design and construction of Purdue’s Bowen High Performance Laboratory for large-scale engineering research.
He has served as past president of the Indiana Construction Association and the Associated General Contractors of Indiana and is a past chairman of the Columbus Economic Development board. He has also served on the IUPUC advisory board and director and executive committee member of the Japan-America Society of Indiana.
Iorio is a physician and partner at Northside Pediatrics Associates and serves as Bartholomew County historian. She graduated from Vanderbilt University (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude), Vanderbilt Medical School and the Vanderbilt pediatric residence program. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
She received the Resident Teaching Award at Vanderbilt and the Columbus Regional Hospital Physician Education Award.
She wrote the script and collected the visual content for the five part video series “It Began with Bartholomew” to commemorate Bartholomew County’s bicentennial and authored “Bartholomew County: Celebrating 200 Years 2021.”
She has served as an officer for the Bartholomew County Historical Society, Columbus Express Soccer club, Bartholomew Consolidated School Foundation, and a board member for Healthy Communities Caring Parents Action Team, Columbus Parks and Recreation Youth Soccer board and the Columbus Regional Hospital Foundation.
