Dentist Dr. Mike Halasz has made his movie debut, thanks to FilmDayton. He plays a dentist in the feature film, The Color of the Sun, directed and written by Clint Bramlette and now airing on Amazon Prime. The crew shot the scene for the psychological thriller in Mike’s office in Kettering. FilmDayton put out a casting call in 2022 for a dentist and dentist’s office to appear in the movie. Mike applied and got the part. In an interview with FilmDayton, Mike said the director even let him make changes to the script. “There were a few lines that I didn’t think a dentist would say the way they had it worded, and it felt a bit clunky,” Mike told FilmDayton. “He allowed me to ad-lib to make it more natural and flow better.”

Wright State has presented Joe Gruenberg with its Honorary Alumnus Award. A longtime attorney in Dayton, Joe’s involvement with Wright State began in the mid-1980s, when he represented the developer who built and managed the university’s first on-campus housing. From 2003 to 2013, he served on the School of Professional Psychology’s advisory board, and from 2006 to 2015 on the Wright State Foundation board including three years as chair of its development committee. Now retired, he is an emeritus trustee of the foundation board and is an Entrepreneur in Residence with the Dayton Entrepreneur Center.

Steven Solomon has been appointed by the Dayton City Commission to the Dayton Sister City Committee, a member of Sister Cities International.

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