10 Years Ago Grace College education majors who have completed their student teaching requirements during the fall semester: Scott Avey, Winona Lake, Wawasee High School and Syracuse Elementary; Martha Beeson, Winona Lake, Edgewood Middle School and Washington and Jefferson elementaries; Shannon Breske, Warsaw, Lincoln and Silver Lake elementaries; Karis Bushen, Warsaw, Pierceton Elementary; Marah Grant, Winona Lake, Tippecanoe Valley High School and Mentone Middle School; Rachel Tomlinson, Warsaw, Warsaw Christian and Eisenhower Elementary. 25 Years Ago The Mentone Fire Department held its annual Christmas party at Teel’s Restaurant, Mentone. Chief Joe Good presented the Mentone Fireman of the Year award for 1988 to John Hart. He is a nine-year member of the department and is presently employed by the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department. Bradley Gerstner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Gerstner, Syracuse, was the winner of the Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award for 1988-89. The only other contestant was Kelly Cook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Keith C. Cook, Warsaw. The state winner will be announced at the Indiana Good Citizens luncheon March 18 in Indianapolis. 50 Years Ago The 65-year-old County Home, south of Warsaw, will be vacated Jan. 1, 1964, by order of the county commissioners and council. The building was erected in 1898 after a fire destroyed a previous county home built on the site a year earlier. By 1850 the number of unfortunate people to care for became so numerous that the commissioners of the day, Noah Rowdabush, George Weaver and Joseph Metcalf, decided to buy a farm from Abraham and Jane Davis for $900 and place a building on it to be used as a county home. The 31 patients now being cared for will be transferred to various nursing homes. 75 Years Ago The organization of the New Deal Soil Conservation Committee for 1939 has been completed with the election of Eleanor L. Kinch as secretary-treasurer. She succeeds Ross Sittler who is now a district supervisor. Daniel K. Leininger is chairman; Arch DeFries, vice-chairman; Mahlon G. Rickel, member; Charles Gross, first alternate; and Alfred D. Wilson, second alternate. The “Tiger” yearbook staff for Warsaw High School are: Ann Franklin, editor-in-chief; Wilbur Gill, business manager; Helen Lucas, literary editor; Richard Hudson, art editor; Encel Dodge, snapshot editor; Flo Rose Taylor, typist; Bud Eschbach, Roy Phillips and Hal Pottenger, advertising managers.
