Sunday, July 21, 2024
BACK TO SCHOOL
Although construction work continues out front of Shelbyville Middle School, the west lot will be open and the building will serve as host to registration help sessions for all SCS schools, Kindergarten through 12th grade, tomorrow, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 5 - 7 p.m., and Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. An Immunizations Clinic will also be available for students throughout the registration help session times. Registration opens online for Shelbyville Central Schools tomorrow.
Historical Society Launched in Fairland
History is in the making in Fairland these days. The newly established Fairland Historical Society is on a mission to document the history of the area, with an emphasis on Moral and Brandywine Townships. An open house yesterday helped jumpstart the efforts.
“We had people bring historic photos and tell us who’s in them and what’s happening in the photos, and then we’re going to scan all these photos and save them so we can keep sharing history,” Anne Hardwick, president of the Fairland Historical Society, said following the session at Fairland Town Hall.
Several people brought black and white photographs showing farmland, local buildings, schools, homesteads, and ancestors depicted in daily life. The photos will be archived digitally. The Society currently is sharing information via a website and Facebook group.
The Society was formally organized in April this year and has already overseen a cemetery clean-up and had a presence at the Fairland Fish Fry. On September 22, a speaker from the Indiana Historical Bureau will visit the Fairland Horizon Center, now in its tenth year, to discuss the importance of oral histories.
“It’s so important for us to have the stories of what life was like, and what we were told, so we will be developing an oral history that will be part of (the history efforts),” Kathleen Miller, director of the Fairland Horizon Center, said. “We have some elderly people who have an incredible wealth of information, and we don’t want to lose that.”
Another open house and photo scanning will be held Aug. 3, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Fairland Town Hall.
“The people that came today gave (Hardwick) a lot of homework,” Miller said, laughing.
Hardwick and Miller serve on the Society board of directors along with Steve Elder, Bob Taylor, Craig Larkey, Marilyn Hertzer and Keith Fisher.
“We’re learning what we need to do,” Miller said. “We’re just trying to keep everything alive.”
NOTEBOOK:
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Editor’s note: The Shelbyville High School Courier is going digital this year, with student-led coverage of student activities and athletics to be published on the newly created Instagram page when the academic year begins. Over the next week, we will dive into the Courier archives to publish highlights from a selected edition. Today’s featured edition is from September 21, 1976.
“The time has come for SHS to say goodbye to bleacher splinters, undesirable restroom facilities, unlighted tennis courts, and inadequate track and baseball facilities. Yes, SHS is moving up in the world of sports,” Ann Hart wrote. Phase I of the building project, which included a new football field, all-weather track, physical education facilities, eight lighted tennis courts, two baseball diamonds, lighting for the fooball field and track, a sprinkling system and fencing around the facility, was complete. Phase I also included a biology lab. Phase II was next, which would include metal beachers, sound equipment for the outdoor facilities, a concession stand, restrooms, and an educational dress and storage building. However, there were no funds yet allocated for the next phase.
The Squibb staff apologized for the lateness of the previous year’s Squib, which had yet to be delivered. According to adviser Mark Pitts, “general inexperience” was the “major cause” of the problem.
Cheri Coryea wrote an editorial “thanking” the unknown person who left a “BIG DENT” in the driver’s side of her 1974 Impala. “Not only a dent but there was paint scraped off for about 30 in.,” she wrote. She said she might have to park her car “somewhere near the Meredith Hill” and ride the bus the rest of the way moving forward.
Led by lettermen Steve Simpson, Ross Sobel and Tim Munger, the SHS tennis team, coached by Gene Hopkins, was 5-1. First-year players Doug Hart and Doug Perkinson were also making immediate contributions. The new courts, though, were not yet available due to “a few dents and uneven seams.”
The Powder Puff game was set for October. Steve Simpson and Susan Polakoff would provide play-by-play action “and a few surprises to all spectators listening to the ‘voice of the Moose,’” Cheri Coryea wrote for The Courier. The girls would be led by their coaches: freshmen - Greg Moheban, Rick Bryan, Tom DeJonge, Jeff Grimme and Mike Blackburn; sophomores - Tony Ball, Jeff Gundrum, Keith Limpus, Lloyd Kemble, John Marshall and Matt Brown; juniors - David Scales, Bill Miller, David Frost, Rick Blackburn and Greg Hurley; seniors - Scot Conrad, Bill Barnes, Rick Jones, Eric Lowe, Archie Antle and Aaron Hatton.
The volleyball team lost a close game to Greensburg. “I feel that we were the better team, but we got down on ourselves and couldn’t pull it out until it was too late,” varsity captain Jan Griffey said.
Elected freshmen class officers were Mike Blackburn, Carol Cole, Brian Tolloh, Bill English, Brian Tulloh, Ann Wilkinson and Kevin Branson. Moss Mossdesitt, Mrs. Ramey and Mr. Leffler were class sponsors for the Class of 1980.
The SHS Band took top honors in the Shelby County Fair Band Contest. The majorettes had done a jitterbug routine to “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” and the band made its grand exit to “The Way We Were.” Greg Bate said he was glad SHS had participated after taking a few years off the contest. “By being in the contest this year, we have proven that we weren’t afraid we couldn’t win,” he said. Diane Wickizer agreed. “It was a lot of hard work, which kids complained about. It took a lot of our free time, but I think it was worth all the hard work we went through,” she said.
This Day in Shelby County History
News around Shelbyville and the surrounding area as reported on or about this date in history. Selections are curated from the Shelby County Public Library Genealogy Department.
2014: Skyline Drive-in hosted Shelby Underground Music Festival, featuring 15 bands. Event organizers were William Boswell, Dale Camp, Shawn Ross, Joe Gaudin and Richard “Shrimpy” Ramsey.
2004: John Fero, 33, son of Dick and Anne Fero of Shelbyville, competed in the annual Alcatraz Sharkfest Swim in San Francisco, Calif. Fero, who had been a swimmer at Western Kentucky University, finished fourth in his age group and 16th overall in a field of more than 900 swimmers.
1994: Major Affiliates announced plans to partner with a private rehabilitation services company to open SportsWorks, an industrial rehabilitation and sports medicine center. Most of the sports injury patients in Shelbyville were previously sent to Methodist Sports Medicine.
1984: Major remodeling was underway at the big, busy store of J.G. DePrez Co. New fixtures, signs, carpeting (for the china department) and cash registers were added. The store would be brightly decorated with the red and yellow HWI do-it-yourself logo. A wall would be knocked down and a basement stairway closed off. The store would remain open seven days a week, manager Joe Collins and vice president Phil Metzger said.
1974: Skip Karmire Ford began offering street-legal, electric-start “tri-rod” three-wheel vehicles.
1964: Queen candidates for the Sugar Creek Township Fair were Linda Piatt, Sherri Barlow, Rhonda Taylor, Ingrid Parker, Sara Shaw, Patsy Bowman, Cheryl Coers, Judy Wright and Sylvia Needler.
1954: Pfc. Jack McDaniel was injured in a traffic accident while en route to National Guard camp in Michigan. He received arm burns and bruises when his jeep and trailer overturned and burned in an accident involving two civilian cars.
1944: The Shelbyville Republican published a “Help Soldier Vote by Filling Out Coupon” card. Soldiers whose names were submitted would be sure to receive a local ballot.
1934: Ivan Warble, of Shelbyville, a talented violinist and scholarship student in the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music in Indianapolis, played at the Palms Cafe on S. Harrison St.
1924: A daughter was born to Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Inlow. She was the first child to be born at Major Hospital. (Lillian “Petie Fay” Inlow Gehres, died just last January, at age 98, in Colorado.) The paper said men in the hospital were initially “a bit peeved” that the nurses weren’t responding to their needs immediately. That changed when they were told the reason for the delay.
1914: A horse and buggy owned by Drake Brothers, 25 West Broadway, turned over near Bengal. Those in the buggy had just stepped out when the animal became frightened by a passing vehicle. The party - Ernest Collins, Harry Powers, Ruth Thurston, Opal Thurston and Lydia Stewart - returned to Shelbyville in a car.
OBITUARIES
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