MEMORIES: 25 years ago
Attorney General Robert Stephan will be the featured speaker at Centre High School commencement exercises to be held May 22 in the school auditorium. Msgr. Arthur Tonne of St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church, Pilsen, will deliver a message of inspiration.
Students from this area who will receive degrees at the University of Kansas this spring include the following from Marion: Shelley Batt Archambo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dean C. Batt; Barbara J. Costello, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Costello; Alan Bina, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bina; and Myron Frans, son of Fern Palmer.
Mark Meyer, a senior at Centre High School, will receive a $750 scholarship at the Kansas FFA Convention in June. Meyer won the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Co. scholarship which is awarded to senior FFA members in Kansas. Only two such scholarships are issued per year.
Charles C. Brooker, 96, Wichita, died Friday, following a brief illness. A former mayor of Marion, he was a retired sales executive.
Marion's Hugh Webb shot an 85 Thursday to lead the Warrior golfers to a first place finish in the Cottonwood Valley League Golf Meet at Herington. The team turned in a six-man score of 533, 23 strokes ahead of second-place finisher Council Grove.
Bev Hoch, a native of Marion, won second place and a $4,000 cash prize in the prestigious G.B. Dealey Award competition Sunday at Dallas, Texas. Soprano Susan Dunn won first prize, $7,500.
Helen Loveless and Max Hayen were re-elected Friday night to their positions on the board of directors for Marion County Hospital District No. 1. Current officers are: Albert Klenda, chairman; K.C. Widler, vice-chairman; Bob Brooks, treasurer; Helen Loveless, secretary.
