Remember When 1.26.08

Posted Wednesday, December 31, 1969 7:00 pm

10 Years Ago

January 25 1998

Jean Beeson, computer lab manager at Lakeview Middle School, won a contest at Warsaw Community Schools for completing the most in-service hours.

Beeson participated in more than 100 hours of WCS in service since June 1. She took classes that helped her learn new software programs and learn new computer skills such as building Web pages.

25 Years Ago

January 25 1983

Laura Crandell, of Warsaw, is presently studying at the Instituto de Filologia Hispanica in Saltillo, Mexico.

Students are totally immersed in the language, culture and customs of the native Spanish-speaking environment, gaining great insight into the Mexican way of thinking through close contact with professors, conversation tutors and the Mexican family with which they are lodged.

50 Years Ago

January 25 1958

Gals on the Arnolt bowling team surprised themselves a bit when they rolled 975, believed the best score yet for any amateur women's team on a local alley. Individual tallies were: Elsie Wiest, 189; Geraldine Lemna, 195; Marie Fisher, 168; Lila Robinson, 203; and Edna Alice Evers, 220. The team handicap is 64 pins, making the total score 1,039.

75 Years Ago

January 25 1933

Word has been received in Warsaw that the Carnegie hero fund commission has announced that a bronze medal has been awarded to Roy C. Jones, 17, of Syracuse.

Jones saved Lillian Reed, 17, from drowning by diving eight feet under water and loosening her grasp from a rowboat which had overturned in Dewart Lake. Jones upheld Lillian with his teeth while another girl clung to his back for two minutes until a boat arrived.