The St. Francis Hospital Guild was presenting its Silver Tea and Musicale.
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Garfield Park American Legion Post 88 was hosting a hot stew dinner and a hobo dance. The cost was 75 cents for children, $1 per adult.
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The newly formed Southport Christian Church was raising funds so it could build a worship center on East Epler Avenue.
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Southport chapter of the International Travel Study Club celebrated its ninth birthday with a meeting at the home of Mrs. Elmer Stuart.
Fifty Years Ago This Week – 1968
Dick Brunoehler, a longtime teacher and swim coach at Southport High, was named to help mentor Baxter YMCA’s summer swim team.
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Perry Township Schools was going to reorganize its grade structure from a 6-3-3 format to a 5-3-4 format. That meant the elementary schools would have Grades 1-5, middle schools, Grades 6-8; the high school would return to a four-grade program.
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Tom Mills was elected president of the Baxter YMCA Men’s Club. Other officers were John Chittenden, Henry Shackelford and Joe Proki.
Forty Years Ago This Week – 1978
Southsiders Nola and Wally Decker bought a 16-unit motel in Panama City, Fla. The inn was being operated by their daughter and son-in-law, Cathy and Steve Belcher.
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Perry Meridian and Southport high school students Kim Rees, Dotie Spining, Joyce Jones, Andy Midkiff, Carole Higgins, Jeannette Conner, Bonny Lamberth, Diane Noveroske, Cathy Conner, Jamie Crowder, CIndy Meyer, Kay Bohn, Gary Lamberth and Mike Duncan were going to study in Spain for five weeks over the summer.
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Roncalli students Larry Keyler, Janna Stumpf, Steve Ferry, Dan Armbruster and Kathy Gorman had lead roles in their school’s production of “West Side Story.”
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Three dozen small eggs cost $1 at Dinner Bell Market, 2824 Shelby St., where 20 pounds of potatoes were on sale for $1.49 and a gallon of low-fat milk cost $1.09.
Thirty Years Ago This Week – 1988
The Indiana Department of Transportation announced that it would widen State Road 135 from Edgewood Avenue to 2 miles south of County Line Road. In addition, the department was going to construct an extra travel lane on U.S. 31 covering approximately the same distance.
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Roncalli senior Mark Kirkhoff threw a no-hitter – the second of his high school career – as he shut out Franklin Central 4-0 in the second game of a doubleheader.
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Lori Ann Raymann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Raymann and a graduate of Southport High Schoool and Ball State, and Troy Jenschke, son of Mark Jenschke and Kay Christian and a boiler technician in the Navy, were married at St. Jude Catholic Church.
Twenty Years Ago This Week – 1998
The Indy Southside Wrestling Club was holding a free car wash.
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St. Barnabas’ seventh- and eighth-grade A basketball team finished its season with a 26-1 record. The team won its preseason tourney, a holiday tournament and the Catholic Youth Organization city tourney. The squad featured Mark Willsey, Jason Neu, Jeff Manley, Michael Doyle, Jamin Wernke, Louie Stephon, Dan Mahoney, Nick Rembusch, Joe Kuntz and coaches Jeff Kirkhoff and Joe Schaefer.
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Damon Dennin, a senior at Perry Meridian and the son of Jan and Larry Dennin, has signed a letter of intent to play tennis at St. Joseph’s University in Pennsylvania, where he planned to study the performing arts or international marketing.
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Erika B. Decker, daughter of Yvonne D. Snellenberger; Chad A. Broaddus, son of Freda F. Smith and Charles E. Broaddus; and Michael D. Lochard, son of Robert D. and Dawn E. Lochard; were serving in the armed forces.
Ten Years Ago This Week – 2008
The archives from 2008 are missing.