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Remember When March 17

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10 Years Ago
March 17 1990

    Air National Guard Airman Shirley F. Pontius has graduated from the environmental medicine specialist course at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas.

Pontius is the daughter of Russell M. Pontius, Burket, and Lucy J. VanLaningham, Syracuse. The airman is a 1985 graduate of Wawasee High School.

25 Years Ago
March 17 1975

    Joni Kurtz, 12-year-old sixth grader at the South Whitley School, won the fifth-sixth grade spelling bee title over 17 other contestants.

Joni, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kurtz, Rt. 1, South Whitley, correctly spelled the word "chattel" to nail down the championship after runner-up Portia Price, aged 11, a fifth-grade pupil at Syracuse, missed the word "charlatan" in the 28th round.

50 Years Ago
March 17 1950

    Ann Andrews, of this city, attended the annual luncheon of the Producers' Marketing Association given at Indianapolis, in the Riley Room at the Claypool Hotel. Andrews, state president of the Future Homemakers of America, was one of the five young people present representing youth groups throughout the state.


75 Years Ago
March 17 1925

    Mamie Edginton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Edginton, of this city, has been signally honored by being elected to the honorary Quill Society.