“Dayton was at its height as a city,” said Aaron Burke, now a semi-retired Wright-Patterson Air Force Base chemist, but back then a senior tackle for Colonel White High School. “The ...

As the rural community became more populated, Fairview High School was built in 1929 at the corner of Hillcrest Avenue and Philadelphia Drive. The same year, Colonel White opened at the corner of ...

Sometimes that meant a Dayton Flyers football jersey. At other times it was a Colonel White shirt in the former high school's green and gold colors. He often wore a ballcap turned backwards ...