25 years ago
MARCH 28, 1979
Strong gale force winds and wet, clinging snow Friday plummeted temperatures 30 degrees from Thursday afternoon's high of 62. In the wake of the storm, city office employees and county dispatchers floundered in a sea of telephone calls reporting power outages and automobile accidents. All Marion USD 408 students were dismissed from school after lunch.
Marion County Record editor Bill Meyer received the 1979 Boyd Community Service Award Thursday at the Kansas Press Association's 87th annual convention in Garden City. The award is given each year to "the newspaper man or woman who has best served others through community service." Meyer received an engraved plaque and an honorarium of $200.
Janice Wiens, Debra Hett, and Greta Helmer have been selected as delegates to the 37th annual Sunflower Girls State to be held June 10-17 on the University of Kansas campus at Lawrence. Theresa Kroupa and Lori Hett are alternates.
Earlene Hague, clerk of Marion USD 408, will be installed Friday as president of the Kansas Association of Educational Secretaries. Installation and workshops will be held at the Holidome in Hutchinson. Hague has been the Marion school board clerk for the past nine years.
Eighteen square dancers donned mortarboards March 20 for a candlelight ceremony in which they received their Bachelor of Square Dancing degrees from the College of Do Si Dos and Allemand Lefts. Students graduating were Ern and Lucille Hett, Jerry and Helen Higgins, Ed and Anna Tiemeier, and Ruby Penland of Marion.
