25 years ago
MAY 17, 1978
Girls in Marion and Chase counties and high school graduates from the eastern half of Marion County will benefit from the trust fund established by the wills of the late Anna and Nellie Ryan of Florence. Robert Collins of Wichita, trustee of the fund, has presented $10,000 checks to the Flint Hills Girl Scout Council and to Tabor College at Hillsboro.
Brook J. Beaston, Marion, is one of eight engineering students from Kansas State University, Manhattan, who have begun their first work assignments under the K-State Engineering Cooperative Work-Study Program. Beaston, a sophomore, is working under the program this semester at U.S. Gypsum, Southard, Okla.
The Wheat Heritage and Threshing Company enjoyed an old fashioned threshing crew Saturday night at the E and M Café in Durham. Fifty-three guests were served. The old Rumley oil pull tractor was started and driven up and down Main Street drawing much attention from a group of interest onlookers.
Marilee McGinness, a graduate of Marion High School and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed McGinness of the Aulne community, has been notified that she has been accepted as a member of the first class to attend the Oral Roberts University School of Medicine, Tulsa, Okla. This first class of this new school will have 50 students.
Most of Marion High School Warriors attended the regional track meet Saturday in Hesston. They brought home three medals. Casey Case, a junior, placed sixth in the javelin and fourth in discus. Molly Ferrell, a senior, came in third in the state track meet Friday at Wichita South High.
