Sixty Years Ago This Week – 1954
Correction: The item about Dr. Richard Hartzell in last week’s column should have noted that he was an optometrist.
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Sacred Heart High School senior Charles R. Speth won a $2,000, four-year scholarship to the University of Notre Dame, where he planned to study chemical engineering.
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The St. Francis Hospital Guild was finalizing plans for its annual hoe-down at Lake Shore Country Club, 4301 Carson Ave.
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Grocery specials of the week: eggs, 39 cents a dozen, a 14-ounce bottle of catsup, 10 cents; 2 pounds of ground beef, 55 cents; a pound of chuck roast, 39 cents; and a half-gallon of ice cream, 59 cents.
Fifty Years Ago This Week – 1964
Mrs. Al Laker won a trip for two to the New York World’s Fair. Her name was drawn in the sweepstakes held at Miller’s Regal Market, corner of Madison and Terrace avenues.
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The Perry Township School Board purchased 14.6 acres of land just west of Meridian Street and south of Banta Road for a future elementary school (guess those plans never came to fruition).
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Seniors from Manual High School staged “Ask Any Girl” as their class play. The cast included Bonnie Birt, Becky Pearce, Jerry Dunn, Donna Bery, Linda Sohrewide, Vickie Weaver, Jayne Sprague, Peggy Pearce, Mary Stienecker, Patty Ebbler, Nancy Howell, Charles Overton, Ralph Tacoma, Steve Davis, Cheryl Nackenhorst, Sandy Stone and Doug Booth.
Forty Years Ago This Week – 1974
Tickets to Doc Severinsen’s concert at the Indiana State Fairgrounds went on sale for $4, $5 and $6. A talented trumpeter, he was best known for leading the NBC Orchestra and delighting millions of viewers with his antics on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.”
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Steven M. Scott, a 1966 graduate of Southport, was just a week away from receiving his medical degree from Indiana University. He had been invited to attend Duke University Medical School to specialize in obstetrics and gynecology.
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With more than $250,000 in sales during April, Larry Tuttle was named Salesman of the Month for Schmadeke Realtors’ Southside office. He and his wife, Pat, had three children and lived on East David Lane.
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C.E. McLannahan was looking to share his home with a lonesome lady – one who preferably had a car.
Thirty Years Ago This Week – 1984
Clyde Hays, Dorothy Muncy and Paul Saunders were retiring from Indianapolis Public School 65, and Kenneth Hughes was calling it quits as principal at School 18.
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Roncalli graduate Linda Allen was named to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes All-District 21 Indiana softball team. A senior physical education major at Manchester College, she was the daughter of Mary Allen and Robert Allen.
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Matt Wright, a sixth-grader at Southport Middle School and the son of Larry and Leslie Wright, was going to represent the United States at the international Lego bricks building competition in Denmark. He won the trip for designing a flotation object that supported the most weight in water.
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Tom Sneva won the pole for the 68th running of the Indianapolis 500 with a four-lap speed of 210.029. He was more than 2 mph faster than the other front-row qualifiers: Howdy Holmes (second) and Rick Mears. Michael and Mario Andretti qualified for the inside and outside of Row 2, respectively. Mario had been turning near-record speeds during practice but lost some of that quickness when qualifying.
Twenty Years Ago This Week – 1994
Center Grove Middle School seventh-grader Anne Elisabeth won the JC Penny/500 Festival “Catch a Dream” essay contest. She was the daughter of Laura and Bill Stevenson and the grandchild of Marion and Richard Shake.
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Tammy and Vic Wilson’s triplets – Nicholas, Nicola and Vic – celebrated their first birthdays. They shared their birth with a fourth sibling who survived only one day. The children were within ounces of one another at 18 pounds and were all about 28 inches in length.
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The PTA of Burkhart Elementary sponsored a dads night, which attracted more than 300 pupils and their fathers. Among those attending were Mike Schneider and his sons, Luke and Matt, and Bill Baron with his son, Ross.
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Perry Meridian seniors Chris Brunson and Aaron Logan took top honors in the school’s math league contests. Junior Kelly Keeney, sophomore Nanthan Ante and freshman Eric McAfee were the highest-scoring students in their respective grades.
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Southport’s prom court featured Seong Park, Donna Seats, Andrea Taylor, Nancy Clauss, Amy Westrick, Tavonne Harris, Jessika Henry, Dale Jaarvis, Isaac Holloway, Jim Schopper, Dewayne Hudson, Jeremy Johnson, Mikal Porter and Drew Watson.
Ten Years Ago This Week – 2004
Correction: The item in last week’s column about Eric, Matthew and Brent Brockelman having perfect attendance should have stated that they attended Southport High School. The erroneous information was taken from the original story, which had them graduating from Roncalli. Funny, because 10 years ago The Spotlight made the same correction.
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“Yikes”! was the headline over a picture that showed that gas had jumped to $2.05 a gallon. Petroleum experts said the worst was yet to come.
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Vitus and Marie (Huser) Kern and Jerry and Shirley (Weathers) Mack celebrated their 50th wedding anniversaries. The Kerns were the parents of Loretta Wright, Susan Jansen, Karl Kern, Donna Ball, Bernadette Stamper and Rose Marie Kern and had 16 grandchildren. The Weatherses had three children, Larry, Gary and Tim, six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
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“Gardening on My Mind” columnist Georgia Hottell reported that cicadas did not harm vegetables and flowers and were not the menace that many people made them out to be.
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Toni Hook, an award-winning student at Herron School of Art and the daughter of Tony and Judy Ardizzone, earned the privilege to further her studies in Beijing.
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Ardizzone & Nalley Gym at Stop 11 Road and Madison Avenue celebrated its 25th anniversary. The gym was opened by Tony Ardizzone and Dick Nalley, who died of cancer in 2002. The gym’s employees included Mike, Tony, Joe and Judy Ardizzone, Richie, Megan and Marcus Nalley, Toni Hook and Roxann Pattison.
Correction: The item about Dr. Richard Hartzell in last week’s column should have noted that he was an optometrist.
* * *
Sacred Heart High School senior Charles R. Speth won a $2,000, four-year scholarship to the University of Notre Dame, where he planned to study chemical engineering.
* * *
The St. Francis Hospital Guild was finalizing plans for its annual hoe-down at Lake Shore Country Club, 4301 Carson Ave.
* * *
Grocery specials of the week: eggs, 39 cents a dozen, a 14-ounce bottle of catsup, 10 cents; 2 pounds of ground beef, 55 cents; a pound of chuck roast, 39 cents; and a half-gallon of ice cream, 59 cents.
Fifty Years Ago This Week – 1964
Mrs. Al Laker won a trip for two to the New York World’s Fair. Her name was drawn in the sweepstakes held at Miller’s Regal Market, corner of Madison and Terrace avenues.
* * *
The Perry Township School Board purchased 14.6 acres of land just west of Meridian Street and south of Banta Road for a future elementary school (guess those plans never came to fruition).
* * *
Seniors from Manual High School staged “Ask Any Girl” as their class play. The cast included Bonnie Birt, Becky Pearce, Jerry Dunn, Donna Bery, Linda Sohrewide, Vickie Weaver, Jayne Sprague, Peggy Pearce, Mary Stienecker, Patty Ebbler, Nancy Howell, Charles Overton, Ralph Tacoma, Steve Davis, Cheryl Nackenhorst, Sandy Stone and Doug Booth.
Forty Years Ago This Week – 1974
Tickets to Doc Severinsen’s concert at the Indiana State Fairgrounds went on sale for $4, $5 and $6. A talented trumpeter, he was best known for leading the NBC Orchestra and delighting millions of viewers with his antics on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.”
* * *
Steven M. Scott, a 1966 graduate of Southport, was just a week away from receiving his medical degree from Indiana University. He had been invited to attend Duke University Medical School to specialize in obstetrics and gynecology.
* * *
With more than $250,000 in sales during April, Larry Tuttle was named Salesman of the Month for Schmadeke Realtors’ Southside office. He and his wife, Pat, had three children and lived on East David Lane.
* * *
C.E. McLannahan was looking to share his home with a lonesome lady – one who preferably had a car.
Thirty Years Ago This Week – 1984
Clyde Hays, Dorothy Muncy and Paul Saunders were retiring from Indianapolis Public School 65, and Kenneth Hughes was calling it quits as principal at School 18.
* * *
Roncalli graduate Linda Allen was named to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes All-District 21 Indiana softball team. A senior physical education major at Manchester College, she was the daughter of Mary Allen and Robert Allen.
* * *
Matt Wright, a sixth-grader at Southport Middle School and the son of Larry and Leslie Wright, was going to represent the United States at the international Lego bricks building competition in Denmark. He won the trip for designing a flotation object that supported the most weight in water.
* * *
Tom Sneva won the pole for the 68th running of the Indianapolis 500 with a four-lap speed of 210.029. He was more than 2 mph faster than the other front-row qualifiers: Howdy Holmes (second) and Rick Mears. Michael and Mario Andretti qualified for the inside and outside of Row 2, respectively. Mario had been turning near-record speeds during practice but lost some of that quickness when qualifying.
Twenty Years Ago This Week – 1994
Center Grove Middle School seventh-grader Anne Elisabeth won the JC Penny/500 Festival “Catch a Dream” essay contest. She was the daughter of Laura and Bill Stevenson and the grandchild of Marion and Richard Shake.
* * *
Tammy and Vic Wilson’s triplets – Nicholas, Nicola and Vic – celebrated their first birthdays. They shared their birth with a fourth sibling who survived only one day. The children were within ounces of one another at 18 pounds and were all about 28 inches in length.
* * *
The PTA of Burkhart Elementary sponsored a dads night, which attracted more than 300 pupils and their fathers. Among those attending were Mike Schneider and his sons, Luke and Matt, and Bill Baron with his son, Ross.
* * *
Perry Meridian seniors Chris Brunson and Aaron Logan took top honors in the school’s math league contests. Junior Kelly Keeney, sophomore Nanthan Ante and freshman Eric McAfee were the highest-scoring students in their respective grades.
* * *
Southport’s prom court featured Seong Park, Donna Seats, Andrea Taylor, Nancy Clauss, Amy Westrick, Tavonne Harris, Jessika Henry, Dale Jaarvis, Isaac Holloway, Jim Schopper, Dewayne Hudson, Jeremy Johnson, Mikal Porter and Drew Watson.
Ten Years Ago This Week – 2004
Correction: The item in last week’s column about Eric, Matthew and Brent Brockelman having perfect attendance should have stated that they attended Southport High School. The erroneous information was taken from the original story, which had them graduating from Roncalli. Funny, because 10 years ago The Spotlight made the same correction.
* * *
“Yikes”! was the headline over a picture that showed that gas had jumped to $2.05 a gallon. Petroleum experts said the worst was yet to come.
* * *
Vitus and Marie (Huser) Kern and Jerry and Shirley (Weathers) Mack celebrated their 50th wedding anniversaries. The Kerns were the parents of Loretta Wright, Susan Jansen, Karl Kern, Donna Ball, Bernadette Stamper and Rose Marie Kern and had 16 grandchildren. The Weatherses had three children, Larry, Gary and Tim, six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
* * *
“Gardening on My Mind” columnist Georgia Hottell reported that cicadas did not harm vegetables and flowers and were not the menace that many people made them out to be.
* * *
Toni Hook, an award-winning student at Herron School of Art and the daughter of Tony and Judy Ardizzone, earned the privilege to further her studies in Beijing.
* * *
Ardizzone & Nalley Gym at Stop 11 Road and Madison Avenue celebrated its 25th anniversary. The gym was opened by Tony Ardizzone and Dick Nalley, who died of cancer in 2002. The gym’s employees included Mike, Tony, Joe and Judy Ardizzone, Richie, Megan and Marcus Nalley, Toni Hook and Roxann Pattison.
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