Eddie Deezen

Allegany High School student Eddie Dezen knew what his future was, and he lost no time in pursuing an acting career in Hollywood. Born on March 6, 1958, (Some biographies list his birth as occurring in 1957) he hit the road after graduation, landing in the Golden State, adding another "E" to his last name for emphasis, and embarking on his chosen path. For Eddie Deezen, work has been steady for the Cumberland native; he's appeared in numerous movies and found a true home in the voice-over business, lending his nasally inflections to several cartoon features, including a present job as Mandark on the popular Children's Cartoon Network's "Dexter's Laboratory."
As a 20 year-old, he was a Beatles fan in "I Wanna Hold Your Hand," released in 1978. It was an easy role; he truly is captivated by the Fab Four and their successes. He played the ultimate techno-geek in "War Games" in 1980, and has appeared in dozens of films since: Polar Express, Spy Hard, 1941, Desperate Moves, Million Dollar Mystery, Silence of the Hams, Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights, Teenage Exorcist, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, and both "Grease" movies, to name just a few.
He earned more popularity on television, playing, again, nerdy, geeky roles, one of which was the portrayal of zany maintenance man Eddie Malven on the "Punky Brewster" series in the mid-80s. He even served as guest host on a Saturday Night Live segment. Deezen is another area native who's scored big in Hollywood; his web site is a popular location, featuring trivia of all kinds.

David Grimes

David Grimes passed away in 2005, but he left behind a legacy any of us would be proud to call our own. He was a graduate of Allegany High School with the class of 1955 and embarked on a career that would see him, by 1980, Project Manager for Delta Launch Vehicle NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center. By that time he had worked at Goddard for 17 years, and had accepted responsibility for launching most of the free world communications and meteorological satellites. He was a charter member of the Senior Executive Service for the Federal Government. He had received the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1974 for managing the Atmosphere Explorer series of spacecraft. Travel to the far east was on his agenda in the fall of 1980; India, Indonesia and Australia were all flying Delta missions into the mid-80s - as far as his information was projected at that time. He was, as you can see, a true rocket scientist.
A few years later - in 1997 - David co-founded Telfonet Communications. The company is listed on the American Stock Exchange. The business distributes high-speed internet service over 60 cycle power lines in homes and commercial buildings. At this writing the company was about to get certified for government and miltary work, especially the Navy/Marine internet. David received the patent as the system's inventor.
As an aside, David and his wife, Susan, were the parents of two sets of twins, who are in their mid to late 40s today.