- Old Teacher Rules - Souder Wrong - Lake Access - Christian Duties - Patronized - Israel Old Teacher Rules Editor, Times-Union: Rules for teachers - 1872 1 - Teachers each day fill lamp and clean chimney. 2 - Teachers to bring bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day. 3 - Men teachers may take one evening a week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly. 4 - After 10 hours in school, the teachers may spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good books. 5 - Woman teachers who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed.
10 Years Ago October 19 1996 NORTH MANCHESTER - Retired Wawasee track coach Jerry Minton will be honored at halftime of Saturday's Rose-Hulman and Manchester College football game. The 1962 Manchester College graduate went on to a long and successful career at Wawasee High School, coaching track and cross country. 25 Years Ago October 19 1981 Recently, at Think Young Styling Center, Warsaw, Bob Buhler took his dummy, Josh, for a haircut.Bob, active in child evangelism ministry, recently purchased Josh but his hair appeared not quite right, so it was clipped.Josh wore a cape, and Bob, working Josh's eyes and mouth, put on quite a ventriloquist demonstration for patrons.
10 Years Ago April 15 1996 SOUTH WHITLEY - Whitko's Rachel Brown has been selected to play in the Nancy Rehm All-Star basketball game April 20. Brown is the Times-Union Player Of The Year.
10 Years Ago May 16 1996 Members of the Warsaw Future Business Leaders of America competed at the State Leadership Conference in Indianapolis. Warsaw earned more awards than any other school represented.Six students, Kevin Masur, Cathy Laker, Michelle Kistner, Kirsti Miller, Kasia Adamczyk and Steve Wilson will attend the national conference in Washington, D.C., in July.
10 Years Ago August 4 1995 Ask David Plummer of Warsaw to give you his tip 10 reasons for being excited about the fall of 1995, and the list probably would be made in seconds. Plummer, 19, a 1994 graduate of Warsaw Community High School and the son of Ray and Dianne Plummer of Warsaw, was selected from more than 600 applicants to be an intern for "The Late Show," hosted by David Letterman.
10 Years Ago May 10 1996 TERRE HAUTE - Lynnly Wood, of Warsaw, and Brent Kilbourne, of Pierceton, were among 42 students from Indiana State University who received the Sycamore Blue Ribbon Award for 1996. Recipients of the award must be in good academic standing and have demonstrated achievement in campus activities, leadership, athletics or community and volunteer services. 25 Years Ago May 10 1981 Arden Grow, Claypool, a 14-year employee at Uniroyal, was the winner of an in-plant idea plan contest.There were two prizes, one prize for the most idea suggestions, and another prize for the idea that after implementation over a 12-month span realized the most dollars saved.Grow was the winner of both.
10 Years Ago February 2 1996 Dave Rapp recently was honored as the Warsaw Fire Department volunteer firefighter of the year.Rapp received a plaque to commemorate the honor. 25 Years Ago February 2 1981 Nine-year-old Julie Cobbs, a third-grader at Claypool Elementary, had a dream come true when she had two minutes to fill a shopping cart with toys at the Ayr-Way store in Scotsdale Mall. Julie, daughter of Mr.and Mrs.DeWain Cobbs, Warsaw, netted about $400 in toys during the shopping spree that capped off a Multiple Sclerosis Read-A-Thon in which students read books to raise money for M.S.Julie read 39 books to raise $12.48.
10 Years Ago October 21 1996 Andrew Kittrell recently placed third in his division at the TKO bowling scholarship tournament in Anderson. Also, Michael Kittrell placed first in division six at a TKO tourney in Portage.Both Kittrells are members of the youth bowling leagues at Gilliam Lanes. 25 Years Ago October 21 1981 As a family get-together and project, the Weirick family of Goose Lake has made apple butter for the last 15 years.Robert Weirick was seen stirring the boiling apples in a large copper kettle that has been in the family for 80 years.The Weiricks gathered in the back yard of in-law John McSherry, Warsaw, and three bushels of apples and nine hours later, the apple butter is done.
10 Years Ago January 30 1996 Warsaw Community High School's DECA chapter, a student marketing association, finished first in district competition Jan.23 in South Bend. National qualifier Mutt Muehler took first at District for the second straight year.Mary Harrell was third, and Brooke Maze was fourth. 25 Years Ago January 30 1981 A piano recital at the home of Iva Lozier, Warsaw, included performances by the following students: Amy Leedy, Stephanie Leek, Lisa and Laralee Bair, Lisa Frozetta, Greg Bell and Laura Engle.
10 Years Ago June 6 1995 Lakeview Middle School students will have a new principal with a familiar face when the next school year begins. Patricia Deck, who was Lakeview's assistant principal last year, was approved as principal by the Warsaw Community Schools board of school trustees. 25 Years Ago June 6 1980 Four teachers, retiring after a total of 119 years of service to Warsaw students, were honored this morning by fellow teachers and administrators at a breakfast in the Warsaw Community High School commons.Retirees are Francis Heaton, middle school, 27 years; Virginia Huffman, Leesburg, 36 years; Mildred Frantz, Washington, 23 years; and Arleen Miner, high school, 33 years.
10 Years Ago April 1 1987 The reputation of Breading's Cigar Store in Warsaw has reached the other side of the world.Kevin Gearhart, a Warsaw native, traveled to China during Ball State University's first exchange program.He took along a Breading's cigar Store T-shirt and had another student pose with the shirt in front of the Great Wall. 25 Years Ago April 1 1972 Warsaw Junior High and Freshman High School students will have an opportunity to participate in a tooth decay prevention program called a "Brush-In."Dr.Russell L.Heyde, Warsaw dentist, said the program uses a prophylactic paste containing a special compound of zirconium silicate and stanous flouride which is applied to the teeth of children by supervised self-brushing.
10 Years Ago May 19 1996 Lakeview Middle School eighth-grader Jessica Wadkins made quite a stir at the school's spring concert earlier this month. Her unplugged rendition of "Zombie" by the Cranberries received the concert's loudest round of applause after proving she was worthy of imitating the signature slur of the Cranberries' Irish front lady, Delores O'Riordan.
10 Years Ago Nov.1 1987 Classic Car Centre of Warsaw had a celebrity customer recently as popular country singer Hank Williams Jr.bought a '66 Chevy C-10 pickup that has only 23,000 miles on it.Final purchase arrangements were made when Williams phoned the dealer from a jet as he was flying across the country. 25 Years Ago Nov.1 1972 Warsaw Patrolman Doug Brumfield arrested a Warsaw man this week for public intoxication and had this to say about the man's behavior just before the arrest: "The subject was having a very important conversation with one city-owned parking meter."We wonder what the meter had to say.
10 Years Ago February 3 1996 Air Force Airman 1st Class Chuck Smith has graduated from Phase 1 of the medical laboratory specialist course at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas. Smith is the son of Thomas and Brenda Smith, South Whitley, and is a 1989 Whitko High School graduate. 25 Years Ago February 3 1981 MENTONE - Five students named winners in the DAR American History Essay Contest will be honored at a meeting of Anthony Nigo chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution at Mentone.
10 Years Ago August 18 1995 Elizabeth Sroufe and Dale Wright were among the winners of prizes in a raffle sponsored by the Pierceton Days festival.Sroufe won a glider rocker and Wright won a "Jennifer" doll from Linda Lou's Gift & Craft Shop, owned by Linda Branning.
10 Years Ago April 20 1996 PROVIDENCE, R.I.- An Akron teen who is planning a career as a chef was first runner-up in the healthful dinner category of the seventh annual National High School Recipe Contest at Johnson & Wales University. A panel of expert judges named Tippecanoe Valley High School senior Jeremy Sampsel first runner-up for his recipes for blackened swordfish with roasted vegetable salsa, Cajun corn and black bean couscous. 25 Years Ago April 20 1981 Brett Welty and Jeremy Kuhn have been chosen as Boys State representatives from Triton.
10 Years Ago June 30 1995 Kirstin Pletcher, the daughter of Clint and Cheryl Pletcher, was named Kosciusko County Fair Queen.She competed among a dozen other contestants.She'll be a senior this year at Warsaw Community High School and will represent the county at the state fair contest later this summer. 25 Years Ago June 30 1980 Local optometrist Dr.Virgil McCleary was the goat literally in a recent unplanned outing at Rozella Ford Golf Club.
10 Years Ago February 13 1996 WINONA LAKE - Quick action by a 13-year-old Winona Lake boy saved the lives of two young girls who fell through the ice on Winona Lake. Police are commending the efforts of Saun Thomas Miller, who pulled 8-year-old Kendra Zielasko and 8-year-old Ashley Singletary from the icy waters about 5 p.m.
10 Years Ago Nov.10 1987 The second major gift within the past year has been received by the Warsaw Public Library that may spur plans for expansion.Library board member Robert Gephart announced they had received rights to the Masonic Temple building located just north of the library's parking lot. 25 Years Ago Nov.10 1972 American Testing Engineering Consultants of Indianapolis are conducting soil investigating borings on the site of the new $6.5 million Kosciusko Community Hospital northeast of the city.Construction is expected to take about 24 months.
10 Years Ago Nov.6 1987 The Whitko Marching Pride, under the direction of Mike Clark, will be marching at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich., in the Marching Bands of America Competition. 25 Years Ago Nov.6 1972 John and Mabel Suderman of Winona Lake are on their way to complete a mission they began more than 40 years ago on a Hopi Indian reservation in Arizona.The Sudermans, who were missionaries of the Mennonite Church from 1930 to 1947, near the Hopi Village of Oraibi in northern Arizona, are traveling back to the reservation to deliver 3,000 hymnals to the Indians.