Ron Tyler, NHS Class of 1953

By: Ed Ackley/ Tom Rowe

Contributing Writers

Editors note: Today’s article is part two in a series of profiles on this year’s Norwich Sports Hall of Fame induction class. The fourth annual induction ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, May 3 at Canasawacta Country Club.Reservations forms are available at the Norwich Middle School or may be downloaded from the school website at www.norwichcsd.org.

Conceptualized in 1933 during the bowels of The Great Depression, the radio series “Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy” was created by General Mills to bring the downtrodden citizens of the United States some much-needed optimism, if only for an hour a week. Approximately one year later, Ron Tyler, the second of three children to Ken and Esther Tyler, was born in South Otselic. And, by the time he graduated from Norwich High School, he would epitomize the hero of that Wheaties-sponsored serial to the max.