Dorothy Jerse looks back at local history from 10, 25 and 50 years ago as reported in the Tribune and Tribune-Star.
2000
• Graduating “Classes of 2000” from Vigo County high schools were the first groups required to pass the ISTEP-Plus Graduation Qualifying Exam in order to obtain high school diplomas.
• Indiana State Police radio dispatcher Sara Loudermilk was named “Emergency Medical Dispatcher of the Year” by the Vigo County Emergency 911 Office.
• Vigo County Commissioners leased the former Reuben Donnelley building on South First Street. Current offices in the Annex & Security Center, 201 Cherry St., were to be remodeled to expand the county jail.
• Members of the Honey Creek Middle School team, coached by Bob Fischer, won their fourth consecutive Francis Vigo MATHCOUNTS Regional Contest at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Ann Chi racked up the highest score on the team.
• Bill and Jill Dawson’s Baja Bar & Grill was now open at 2919 S. Third Street, former location of Fast Eddie’s Hy-Way Lounge.
• Gary and Diane Richards, Casey, Ill., had opened Frog’s at 810 Wabash Avenue, former site of The Chase. They also owned M. Mogger’s and The Stables in Terre Haute and Richards Farm in Casey.
1985
• Digital Audio Disc Corp. planned to triple its production by fall, thus increasing the monthly capacity from 300,000 to one million discs. This CBS/Sony Inc. subsidiary, which had opened in Terre Haute in Sept., 1984, was the first facility in the U.S. to manufacture compact discs.
• Michelle Nichols and Jan Exline, Y-Teen members at Terre Haute North Vigo and Terre Haute South Vigo high schools, co-chaired the Sweetheart Dance at the Indiana State University Tirey Ballroom.
• The Vigo County Board of Health announced it would conduct its own study on the possible contamination of wells in the Lockport Road area around the International Minerals & Chemical Corp. east plant. Health officer Dr. W. W. Drummy was unsatisfied with the Environmental Protection Agency samplings.
• Hulman Regional Airport Authority approved a resolution allowing Airport Development Corp., Memphis, Tenn., to construct an air-cargo facility at Hulman Airpark. It was expected to create 200 jobs in five years.
• Marjorie Bays and Mrs. Jerry Miller co-chaired the Beta Sigma Phi City Council Queen’s Ball at the Holiday Inn.
1960
• Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) spoke to more than 2,000 persons in the Indiana State Teachers College Student Union Auditorium. The presentation was part of the Wabash Valley Lecture Series with Dr. Paul Siebenmorgen president and Dr. Donald W. Conner vice president.
• The Terre Haute Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Assoc. supported the Sunday Church School program at the Beacon School of the Valley. Eunice Hall, association president, said, “It was the only Sunday School in the nation conducted exclusively for handicapped children.”
• Gerstmeyer Technical High School students and their teacher, Mary Tranbarger, visited the Tribune-Star Publishing Co. plant. Harry Brentlinger Sr., composing room superintendent, conducted the tour.
• Dean Herman Moench of Rose Polytechnic Institute discussed and demonstrated “antenna procedure” at the Wabash Valley Amateur Radio Association meeting.
• Abel & Creal TV Sales, 3003 Wabash Ave., featured a national promotion of Magnavox television and stereo-hi-fi units.
