Continuously serving Kosciusko County since 1854
Joan Hoke, long-time staff member of Grace College and Seminary, was installed president of Warsaw Kiwanis Club by Lt. Gov. Bill Keyser of Mentone. Other officers: Al Martin, president-elect; Charles Whitcraft and Chet Clampitt, first and second vice president; Joni Truex, secretary; Darrin Miller, treasurer. James Tinkey is immediate past president.
Powell's Family Tae Kwon Do students participated in a Hurricane Katrina Fundraiser Break-A-Thon Saturday, Oct. 15, at Warsaw's Bixler Park. Regina Anderson demonstrated her kicking skills, breaking three boards.Bourbon Library has more than doubled its usable space. The expansion project was designed by Scearce and Associates, Warsaw, and built by Strang Construction, Plymouth. Librarian Mona Baer checks out a book at the new circulation desk.
For the second straight season, the Warsaw volleyball team captured the Northern Lakes Conference title with a perfect 6-0 record. The 11th-ranked Lady Tigers ended the season with a win over Concord at the Tiger Den Oct. 4, pushing their season record to 24-1 and a 16-game winning streak. Freshman Jennifer Kintzel scored seven straight points. Coach Penny Salm said, "I was very pleased with the way our girls played."
50 Years
Several high school students from Kosciusko County and area are among 14,000 semi-finalists in the 1965-66 competition for merit scholarships, the highest scoring students on the qualifying test given last March: Ronald L. Richard, Warsaw; Cheryl A. Rager, Pierceton; Cynthia E. Metzger, South Whitley; John L. Petrie and Karl A. Schrock, North Manchester; Frederick Helmuth, Nappanee, Stephen W. Bridge, Rochester; Michael G. Bell, Wakarusa; Mary L. Amstutz and Sam C. Sutter, Goshen.
Teresa Piebenga, high school junior, was crowned by South Whitley Jaycees as queen of their fall festival. Second was Barbara Earnhart, and third was Jean Austin.
75 Years
Warsaw's kindly Rev. E.L. Semans, East Center Street, celebrates his 96th birthday anniversary on Thursday, Sept. 26. He boasts many friends in this locality, having lived here for 30 years and is retired from the Methodist pulpit.
Randy, 6, son of theatre manager and Mrs. John Boice, boasted to a Times and Union staff member that he has a job of putting up show seats. "I get 25 cents a week and two days off." He also has to bring the milk in every morning.
Beaver Dam school principal is Glen Longenecker. Raymond P. Lash, Franklin Township trustee, says there are no changes made in the teaching staff.
