The Southside Exchange Club was planning its fifth annual Woodlawn Fish Fry and Festival.
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The Cultural Committee of the Greater Southside offered art and Spanish classes.
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St. Francis Hospital’s $3 million, six-story addition with 104 beds was just days away from opening.
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Anna Bauman, daughter of William C. Bauman, was entering the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondolet in St. Louis.
Fifty Years Ago This Week – 1967
Ronalee S. Rayback and Frank W. Sims were the first couple to be married in the new Resurrection Lutheran Church at 445 E. Stop 11 Road.
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Monty Siekerman, a graduate of Southport High, Hanover College and IU Graduate School of Journalism, was named director of university information at Ohio Northern.
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Rumors about the closure of Kennedy Memorial High were found to be untrue. The school’s sports programs were led by athletic director/football coach John Meredith, assistant football and basketball coach Michael “Mickey” Seal and basketball coach Jack Noone.
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The Colonial Meadows subdivision, located off Fry Road and just west of U.S. 31 in Greenwood, was being developed. The addition featured custom-built homes from $25,000.
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Two pairs of boys leather shoes cost $5 at G.C. Murphy, 1045 Virginia Ave., where women’s long-sleeve blouses were 94 cents.
Forty Years Ago This Week – 1977
Funeral services were held at Sacred Heart Catholic Church for Aline Cafouros, 90, mother of Spotlight Publisher George Cafouros.
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Baxter YMCA’s diving team took top honors at the Indiana Open AAU Invitational Championships. First-place divers were Tom Anthony, Rusty Bertram, Jeff VanMeter, Pius Boehm, Cheryl White and Donna Lawrence. Winning medals for second place were Mike Lewis, Jerilyn Frost, Tommy Thomas, Jill Chambers and Tim Ewick.
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Kathy Vonderohe was named instructor of nursing at Indiana Central University. Vonderohe, previously employed by Methodist Hospital, had earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing from Ball State and Indiana universities, respectively.
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The Big Red Barn Skating Rink was hosting a 12-hour skate-a-thon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
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St. Roch Catholic School, whose principal was Joseph Schaedel, was in its sixth year of being the first and only all-lay staffed parochial school in the Indianapolis Archdiocese.
Thirty Years Ago This Week – 1987
Seven-year-old Lisa Snyder served as honorary chief of the Perry Township Fire Department for a day. She earned the honor by winning a fire safety poster contest.
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The Indianapolis Ballet Theatre was performing at Garfield Park.
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Registration was underway for youth bowling leagues at Sport Bowl, 3900 S. East St.
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Supplies Wholesale, 1361 Madison Ave., carried a complete line party supplies and other items.
Twenty Years Ago This Week – 1997
Nearly 75 second- through fourth-graders from Perry Township Schools attended the Boys-2-Men summer camp, which was designed to increase the participants’ physical, emotional intellectual well-being. The camp was coordinated by Louis Norris, who was assisted by Keary Rininger, Matt Bedorz, Michael Avant and Susan and Michael Hancock.
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The Prevention Resource Center at Indiana University reported that drug and tobacco use was down among Hoosier teenagers for the first time in four years.
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Julie and Mitch Elliott opened the Upper Crust Bakery & Cakery at 7634 S. Meridian St.
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A dozen roasting ears were $2.50 at Langhorst Greenhouse, 752 W. Hanna Ave.
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The Foo Luck Chinese Restaurant opened in Southern Plaza, where buffet dinners cost $3.50 per child, $6.95 per adult.
Ten Years Ago This Week – 2007
The archives from 2007 are missing.