The charter class of the Pahrump Valley High School Hall of Fame will be inducted Oct. 5, during halftime of the Trojans' football game with Mesquite Virgin Valley.

The first 16 people elected by a committee to the Hall of Fame are:

Ray and Irene Wulfenstein, who have been major contributors to athletics and extracurricular activities at PVHS;

Ron and Charlotte Floyd, who also have been long-time supporters of Trojan athletics;

Donald Worden, the first principal of Pahrump Valley High School; he hired most of the teachers and coaches in the school's formative years;

Larry Goins, a former coach and athletics director now at Sierra Vista High School in Las Vegas. He remained involved with the Pahrump Valley Junior Golf Founders Club and the affiliated Pahrump Valley Junior Golf Association;

Al Giannotti, the winningest football coach in PVHS history; he also coached boys' golf teams;

Rod Poteete, who has been a teacher in the Pahrump Valley school system for 33 years; he formerly coached baseball, winning 80 of 135 league games and going 153-82 in 12 seasons;

Mike Floyd, a varsity football and baseball player who stayed in town and became a major contributor to the athletics program, particularly in facilities improvement programs;

Maggie Veloz (Villa), who played on three state championship basketball teams in 1978, 1979 and 1980; Maggie works in the PVHS administrative offices and in recent years, has been an assistant coach in girls basketball and fast-pitch softball;

Charles Stevens, who starred in football, basketball and baseball from 1983 through 1986 and holds many school records, particularly in baseball;

Dick Empey, a standout football, basketball and baseball player (1981-84). He now resides in Las Vegas, where he is a hospital radiology technician.

Mike Kruse, another early 1980s' three-sport star and considered PVHS's all-time best baseball player. He is a firefighter in Boise, Idaho.

Shari Longden, who transferred from Tonopah High School in 1975 and became one of PVHS's top female athletes, becoming the first Lady Trojan to win an individual state championship (800-yard run). Shari is married to Ivar Gals and is active in many community programs.

Janelle Ward was a four-year varsity letter winner at Pahrump Valley in the late 1970s; in her four years on the basketball teams, the Trojans won four regional and two state championships. She works for the Nye County School District at Rosemary Clarke Middle School.

Misti Ward (Scott) lettered four years in basketball and was named the team's most valuable player in 1984, 1985 and 1986.