10 Years Ago Anthony C. Hull, son of Steve and Laura Hull, is valedictorian and Emily A. Crist, daughter of Al Crist and Kathy Carvey, is salutatorian for the Whitko High School Class of 2004. Both students are in the National Honor Society. Warsaw Christian School’s sixth-grade will present “The Music Man Junior” Friday and Saturday in the gym. Austin McLeod is salesman Harold Hill, who visits River City, Iowa. Katherine Kitchens plays Marian Paroo, the librarian. Other cast members are Cheyenne Egner, Travis Fivecoate, Jamie Duchane, Mallory LaFountain, Joshua Remington, Cole Fatchett, Emma Jefferis, Joel Widman, Cameron Crowell, Lauren Byers, Sarah Schaefer, Rachel Haller, Kaila Higgins, Rosa Schaefer, Will Gross, Adam Reneker, Logan Brune, Scott Koontz, Michael Burton and A.J. Saldivar. 25 Years Ago Two-year-old Abby Zehr and her mother Sherry take advantage of the nice weather to go for a bike ride on Patterson Road this morning. Students from Mark Timpe’s building trades class at Wawasee High School are busy completing the final stages of construction of two duplexes located at 806 Lynwood, Syracuse. There will be an open house May 6. May is National Speech and Hearing Month. Sharon Hassinger, speech pathologist at Washington Elementary, dedicated to helping non-verbal students, introduced an electronic communication board known as the “Wolf” system. Student Vicki Bays demonstrates how it works for Joe Swain of American Legion Post 49, which donated a scholarship to Bays. 50 Years Ago These eight teachers in the Warsaw Community Schools have received scholarships under the National Defense Scholarship Act for advanced study in the fields of mathematics and science: William Brenneman, Purdue; Joseph E. Beeson, University of North Carolina; Michael Szabo, Purdue; Joseph Harris, University of Delaware; Karen Szabo, Purdue; Jacques Crapuchettes, University of San Francisco (his work will be studying the “new math,” which will be inaugurated in the Warsaw Community Schools in fall 1965); Harry Haakonsen, Syracuse University; Silas Howard, Texas A and M. Mayor Joe Johnson reported to the Board of Works that state highway officials will make a traffic check at the corner of Prairie and Buffalo streets to determine the need for a stoplight. City Engineer D.H. “Jerry” Lessig presented plans for widening Scott Street. 75 Years Ago Warsaw High School debaters Donna Hudson, Jean Thomas, Marilyn Amos, Encel H. Dodge Jr., Jesse Eschbach Jr., Robert Towns, Robert Gast and John Tuckey were awarded letters Thursday morning by their coach Allen Campbell, and recognition for the fine work they have done this year by Principal Loren Chastain. Fred Gilliam of Chapman Lake is the inventor of a bird house he manufactures by hollowing out a gourd after it has dried, removing the seeds and converting into an artistic “Jenny Wren” house, equipping the dollar-size opening with a small entrance perch. The gourds are enameled and varnished with bright solid colors and sell for $1 each.
