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Remember When February 16

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10 Years Ago

February 16 1996

    Jeff Neumann, principal of Madison Elementary, was the recipient of a cream pie from kindergarten teacher Cindy Snyder. Her class had the most orders for Market Day in January. Market Day is a monthly food sale that raises money for the school's PTO.


25 Years Ago

February 16 1981

    Gary Berkey, son of Wayne and Carol Berkey, of Claypool, did something that several area residents have done at one time or another, but very few of them have probably done it at the age of 16.

Gary, a sophomore at Warsaw Community High School, enjoyed his first solo airplane flight on his 16th birthday. That's the first day FFA regulations allow such shenanigans, although Gary has been flying with someone else in the cockpit since the age of 12.

50 Years Ago

February 16 1956

    Five Manchester College students were initiated into Kappa Mu Epsilon, a national honorary mathematics fraternity working to promote the interests of math.

Among those initiated were Wendell Meyer and Earl Marquis, of North Manchester, and John Mitchell, Winona Lake.

75 Years Ago

February 16 1931

    Stuart Van Dyke, a pupil of the Warsaw High School, won first place in the county bar association oratorical contest held at the Warsaw High School. Van Dyke will now represent Kosciusko County in the district contest to be held later.

The subject of Van Dyke was: "The Power of the People Under Our National Constitution."