Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 327, Greencastle, Putnam County, 30 August 1986 — Page 1
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Compiled by ERIC BERNSEE Banner-Graphic Managing Editor AUDREY J. HENNINGER, South Putnam High School 1986 Valedictorian has been named a Wittenberg University Scholar, the highest academic honor bestowed upon an incoming freshman. Miss Henninger, daughter of Ernest and Melva Henninger, Greencastle, was selected in recognition of her outstanding academic achievement and the strength of her scholarship application essays. The 1986 SPHS graduate will receive a stipend of $12,000 from Wittenberg University, a tuition remission grant from DePauw University and an Indiana Elks Scholastic Scholarship. While in high school, Miss Henninger has been active as a member of theatre, varsity tennis, varsity swimming (captain), National Honor Society, student council National Endowment for the Humanities “Hoosier Experience,” Latin Club and a National History Day contest state finalist. Maj. STEVEN R. JONES, son of Raymod C. and Jeanne Jones, Route 1, Cloverdale, has graduated from the U.S. Air Force Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. Graduates of the college studied advanced military leadership, management and use of aerospace forces. The 10-month course is part of the Air University’s professional education system and prepares officers for higher command staff positions. Jones was an honor graduate of the course. DEL HALL, a resident of Vigo County, has been added to the sales staff of Al Carney-Nichols Chevrolet-Buick, Greencastle. Hall, who has lived and worked entirely in the Midwest, is active in several social and professional organizations. He is married and has three children. BETH PERNEY, Greencastle, a graduate student at DePauw University, will present a research paper entitled, “The Role and Structure of High School Radio Stations in Indiana,” to the Indiana Speech Association at its annual meeting Sept. 19 at lUPUI. Ms. Perney, who did her research project last spring at DPU, had her paper chosen by a selection panel from a number of competitive papers. Nine Putnam County students will enter Ball State University as freshmen this year, the Muncie college has announced. Among approximately 17,000 students enrolled at BSU are: JASON E. BAUGH, Route 2, Greencastle; LAURA S. COLLETT, Route 2, Cloverdale; ROBERT A. COSTIN, Route 5, Greencastle; KEVIN J. HARRIGAN, Route 3, Greencastle; JOHN M. HECKO, 920 S. Indiana St., Greencastle; RICHARD D. RENSCHEN, 629 Brentfield Lane, Greencastle; REBECCA S. BUSCH and RON-
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Clear and cool again overnight with low 50-55 after a daytime high in the 70s. Mostly sunny on Sunday with a high of 75-80. Indiana Extended Forecast Fair Monday through Wednesday with highs in the 80s and lows in the low to mid 60s.
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DA K. BUSCH, both of P.O. Box 5, Russellville, and ROBERT L. McGAUGHEY, Second Street, Russellville. BRENDA J. GREENLEE, daughter of Joseph W. and Nila R. Greenlee, 1007 Ave. D, Greencastle, has been promoted in the U.S. Air Force to the rank of first lieutenant. Greenlee is chief of the Space Environment Production Section at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., with the Air Force Global Weather Central. Airman Ist Class RICHARD D. COPE, son of Donald W. and E. Joan Cope, 205 E. Main St., Bainbridge, has graduated from the U.S. Air Force fuels specialist course at Chanute Air Force Base, 111. During the course, Cope was taught procedures for receiving, storing and issuing petroleum products. Navy Seaman Apprentice WILLIAM L. MILLER, son of Willie L. Miller, of Greencastle, recently reported for duty aboard the destroyer tender USS Yosemite, homeported in Mayport, Fla. A 1982 graduate of North Putnam High School, Miller joined the Navy in January 1986. His wife, Marcella, is the daughter of Caron and stepdaughter of Danny Vermilion, Route 4, Greencastle. Marine Cpl. RONALD F. WEIST, son of Joe F. Weist, Route 2, Greencastle, has been promoted to his present rank while serving with 2nd Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, NC. A 1978 graduate of South Putnam High School, he joined the Marine Corps in March 1985. Army National Guard Pvt. LOWELL A. HULL, son of Nancy C. and Gary T. Hull. Reelsville, has completed basic training at Fort Dix, N.J. During the training, Hull received instruction in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, first aid, and Army history and traditions. Marine Cp. RONALD F. WEIST, son of Marilyn S. Weist of Route 1, Fillmore, has been promoted to his present rank while serving with 2nd Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, N.C. A 1978 graduate of South Putnam High School, Greencastle, he joined the Marine Corps in March 1985. Navy Seaman Recruit KEVIN A. MILLS, son of Eugene A. and Donna M. Mills of Route 2, Coatesville, has completed the Basic Journalist Course. During the 10-week course at the Defense Information School Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Mills was trained for duty as a military journalist and to assist public affairs officers. He received instruction on public affairs principles, newswriting, editing, proofreading, newspaper design and layout, interviewing and news photography. A 1985 graduate of Hamilton Southeastern High School, he joined the Navy in January 1986.
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Fall Festival Sept. 4-7 at Roachdale ROACHDALE-The Roachdale Optimist Club’s annual Fall Festival begins its four-day swing Sept. 4 with carnival rides 5-11 p.m. and other events scheduled for all ages. In addition to the carnival rides, the festival features foods, games, arts and crafts, flea market booths and Optimist Bingo. AN ADDED ATTRACTION this year is the Jonah Club Fish Fry, an all-you-can-eat dinner 5-9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6. Saturday’s events also feature the Just For Kicks Band, who will perform beginning at 8 p.m. Saturday to midnight. Sunday’s events on Sept. 7 will include the Optimist Club Pork Chop Dinner, beginning at 4 p.m. followed by bingo from 5-11 p.m. The S & S Mobile Band with deejay headlines from 7-11 p.m. Sept. 7. During the Fall Festival, several contests are scheduled, including an egg toss, bubble-gum chewing, greased pig and watermelon-eating contests all on Sept. 6. CONTESTS SUNDAY, Sept. 7 include a sack race, horseshoe pitching and tug-of-war events. Sunday’s events also include a 4 p.m. pet parade. Flea market booths will be open each day from noon to 11 p.m. In addition, bingo will be played noon until 11 p.m. Sept. 5, 6 and 7 with bingo to be played 5-11 p.m. Sept. 4. Advance ride tickets are available at most local Roachdale merchants’ stores and from Optimist members. Tickets for the Big Jonah Fish Fry, the all-you-can-eat affair, is $4.50 for adults and $3 for children 12 years and under. The schedule of events is as follows:
-Thursday, Sept. 4: Carnival rides open, 5-11p.m. -Friday, Sept. 5: Open Pot Ham and Bean dinner, 5-8 p.m.; Bingo, 511 p.m.; Walt Randels Cross Country Band, 8 p.m. to midnight. -Saturday, Sept. 6 (Kids’ Day): Optimist Club sausage and pancake breakfast, 7-10 a.m.; Softball tournament B & C division teams (double elinination) at the grade school diamonds, 8 a.m.; Egg toss, 10-11 a.m.; bubble gum chewing contest, 11 a.m.; greased pig contest for ages 10 and under, 11-14,14 to adult, 11:30 am.; pedal tractor pull for four groups (0-25 lbs.), (26-40 lbs.), (41-55 lbs.), (56-65 lbs.), 1 p.m.; watermelon eating contest for 10 and under, 11-14, 14 to adult, 3 p.m.; Jack Swope Skydiver, 5 p.m.; Jonah Club Fish Fry (All You Can Eat), 5-9 p.m.; Bingo, 5-11 p.m.; Just for Kicks Band, 8 p.m. to midnight. -Sunday Sept. 7: Optimist stand opens, noon; sack race for single and three-legged contests, 1 p.m.; horseshoe pitching contest (open class), 1:30 p.m.; Tug-of-War, 2:30 p.m; registration for pet parade, 3-4 p.m.; Optimist Club Famous One-Inch Thick Pork Chop Dinner, 4 p.m. ; pet parade, 4 p.m.; Bingo, 5-11 p.m.; S & S Mobile Band with DJ, 7-11 p.m.; drawing for Bingo prize of an outdoor grill, 11 p.m.
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Lickin', learnin'and return of the paddle
By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Affairs Editor What in the world is education coming to? According to what I read in the papers, today’s teachers want to do the lickin’ along with the learnin’. This development seems like a move backward to the days of the country schools when a hickory stick in the corner and a knuckle-rapping ruler in the teacher’s desk were as much of the room’s furnishing as blackboards and water buckets. IT SEEMS, IF I CAN rightly read between the lines, that teachers are complaining because more and more parents are sending their unspanked kids to school and expect teachers to reverse the situation. Perhaps this apparent downward trend of home discipline began when thermostats replaced woodsheds, thus depriving parents of their prime source of paddling material. The word from the papers also in-
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The photo album at the Kappa Alpha Theta house at DePauw University, the oldest sorority in the country, is a popular, as well as historic item. Examining memorabilia are current students (from left) Beth Hentze, an Arlington, Tex., sophomore;
Tradition continues Sororities were born with DePauw's Kappa Alpha Theta House in 1870
By KEN KUSMER Associated Press Writer GREENCASTLE, Ind. (AP) was a radical idea in its day, in-dependent-thinking women starting a fraternity for women. More than a century later, though, it’s considered the start of a tradition. Kappa Alpha Theta, which proudly boasts of being “the first Greekletter fraternity known among women,” was founded in 1870 at Asbury University, now DePauw. The oldest sorority in the nation, the Thetas have grown from the four women who started the first, or “alpha,” chapter to 127,000 members and 108 chapters in the United
'B7 DPU mission trips slated
Mission teams from DePauw University will travel to four impoverished nations at the beginning of 1987 - Peru, Haiti, Sierra Leone and the Phillipines. The teams, which consist of DePauw students, nurses and doctors, staff medical clinics and build badly-needed housing for impoverished residents of those nations. The teams will leave during early January of 1987 and remain on site for about three weeks. DePauw mission teams have been visiting foreign nations for about ten years. TEAMS WILL VISIT the following areas this year: Coayllo, Peru: Coayllo is in the drought-stricken Asia Valley. DePauw teams will be working on a community well, installing an
forms that state and supreme courts have agreed that teachers now have the option to paddle a misbehaving young student when ordinary means of discipline break down. THERE SEEMS TO BE a notion among unpaid and self-appointed educators that corporal punishment (this is a mostly modern term for the laying on of hands on a youngster’s lower region) will permanently warp his personality and stifle his desire to do good in his bodes. If your reaction to this is “hogwash,” then you must be in the age of some of us who were in school when the board of education had a handle on it. Fortunately, nature has so designed the human anatomy that the portion designated as the paddle zone is naturally padded so there’s no danger of bone injury, however much power is behind the wallop. THOSE STORIES OF long-ago students with guilt complexes in-
Ann-Clore Jones, a Crestwood, Ky., sophomore; Mary Sullivan, a Des Moines junior, and Stacy Pope, a Muncie senior. (Banner-Graphic photo by Bob Frazier).
Statesand Canada. “I think there’s a great deal of pride just being a Theta,” said Sue Supple of Indianapolis, the international president. “I’m extremely proud to be from Alpha Chapter.” The Theta membership includes Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum of Kansas, actress Mario Thomas, singer Amy Grant, author Kate Millett and 12,000 undergraduates. They trace their fraternity heritage to Bettie Locke Hamilton, who spurned the idea of wearing a male friend’s fraternity pin if she could not belong to the group herself. When her search for an existing
irrigation pumping system and ditch. The medical team will conduct daily field clinics and a teaching team. The program is being held in conjunction with the Institute for Cultural Affairs, an ecumenical community development program with ties to the United Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church and Catholic Church. Sierra Leone, West Africa: Working in conjunction with the United Methodist Church of Sierra Leone, the DePauw team will build a new church and staff field clinics. Mactan Island, Phillipines: The DePauw team will help build an adult education center and dormitory and the medical team will staff three clinics, each of which serves three villages. The team will work with the cooperation of
sulating their paddle place with pillows or wooden shingles are just that-stories. While their young teachers, just a few months out of high school, didn’t have college degrees, they were more than plenty smart enough to not fall for such a trick had one been tried. Unless the teacher’s desk drawer was secured by lock and key, paddles were hard to keep. But those who thought they would get by without getting their britches warmed had another think coming. These young ladies could be real handy with their hands and were able to apply them with vigor whenever the occasion warranted. JUST BECAUSE THEY weren’t as muscular as their male counterparts is no reason to believe that a paddling from them was not effective discipline. The shame of getting caught and the embarrassment which followed a before-classmates
fraternity for women failed, her father, an Asbury professor, encouraged her to start her own. After initiating herself before a mirror on Jan. 27,1870, she then inducted three other women. “She was a very brave, ingenious woman,” recalled Catherine Tillotson McCord, 89, who was initiated into the alpha chapter by Mrs. Hamilton in 1915. “There were so few girls on the campus. They were just admitted (to Asbury in 1867), and they were shunned because the fellas didn’t like the idea of girls on campus,” Mrs. McCord said. Col. 1, back page, this section
Ecumenical Ventures of Chicago, a community development program agency. L’ Acul, Haiti: The DePauw team will construct swine housing and the medical team will work out of a clinic DePauw built in 1983. The team is working with the cooperation of the Episcopal Church of Haiti. Port-au-Prince, Haiti: The DePauw medical team will work out of a health care center in the city. IN ADDITION, THERE IS also one domestic team traveling to Americus, Ga., to help build housing for poor people. Approximately 200 students and professional volunteers every year participate in DePauw’s mission program, headed by the Rev. Fred Lamar, university chaplain.
session sometimes were more “painful” than the paddle. For a number of those country kids back when, a school paddling episode was only the beginning of the misbehaving’s miseries. Regretfully, he could look forward to a repeat performance at home. In the hey day of the paddle and the hickory stick, kids were apparently not smart enough to appeal their convictions. If their neighborhoods had been blessed with sharp lawyers, they could have been informed that getting whaled twice for the same offense was double jeopardy. MY FIRST BRUSH with education was in a country school which had a big room and a little room. Actually, they were both the same size. The only difference was that little kids were in the little room and big kids in the other. The wall between them so flimsy Col. 4, back page, this section