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Remember When February 26

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10 Years Ago
February 26 1994

    Tiffany Ross scored 20 points to lead the Lakeview Middle School eighth-grade girls basketball team to a 44-24 win over Akron Thursday.

Ross also had nine rebounds and four assists as the Lady Tigers improved to 10-2. Lakeview hit a sizzling 21-36 field goals in the win.

25 Years Ago
February 26 1979

    Mike Ray, Wawasee High School senior and member of the Photography Club, was presented with a gold key and two honorable mentions during the Regional Scholastic Art and Photography Awards ceremony at Robertson's in South Bend recently.

Ray's gold key winning entry also received a blue ribbon and will be sent to New York for judging in the national competition.

50 Years Ago
February 26 1954

    Marietta Whitehead, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Whitehead, Warsaw, was chosen by Manchester College students as the candidate from the college for the Hoosier Cherry Blossom princess contest.

The winner of the state contest will compete with girls from each of the 48 states for the title of Queen of the Cherry Blossom Festival, which will be held in Washington, D.C.

75 Years Ago
February 26 1929

    Homer Lucas, principal and instructor in the Claypool schools for the past 13 years, was most pleasantly surprised by the 275 pupils of his school when on Valentine Day they remembered his birthday and presented him in his office with hundreds of valentine remembrances as a tribute to their teacher. The entire number marched into his office. Teachers of the school faculty presented him with numerous valuable remembrances. In the thirteen years heading the Claypool school, Principal Lucas not once has found it necessary to administer corporal punishment.