Talent Search aids Illinois youths toward college
A federally funded Talent Search program based at Southern Illinois University aims to guide rural students from Illinois 50 southern counties toward higher education. Led by Billy G. Pyle and with John Morse as assistant, the project partners with twelve colleges and receives a $50 000 Education Office grant to identify talented youths and study factors behind educational dropouts.
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Tlinois
Southern Tlinois University
Billy G. Pyle
SIU
John Morse
DePauw University
U. S. Office of Education
Illinois
Pyle
Harrisburg
Zeigler
Johnston City
Granite City
Maxine Wilson
Mobile
Alabama
Wall Street
Blackburn College
Tillinois College
MacMurray College
Millikin University
Monticello College
Mt. Vernon Community College
Kaskaskia Junior College
Wabash Valley College
Principia College
Quincey College
McKendree College
Olney Community College
Dennison social notes through busy weekend visits
Rev Ronald Ozier and family visited his brother and relatives in Springfield on Friday and Saturday. Many locals hosted guests including Harold Johns and J H Johns families. Visitors from Cowden Paris Terre Haute and New Lenox joined gatherings. A funeral in Alabama and a pink and blue shower in town are recorded along with multiple home visits and a Pleasant Hill school reunion.
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Ronald Ozier
Springfield
Harold E. Johns
J. H. Johns
H. W. Daugherty
Cowden
Illinois
Orville Taylor
Augusta Holmes
Vincent Schaefer
Grace Weaver
Paris
Pete Carty
Terre Haute
Danny Taylor
Marshall
Rusell Taylor
Marion Batson
Randy Pruiett
Batson
Alabama
Katie Wesche
Marie Shinkett
Levi Swinford
E. O. Jones
Doris Decker
Dean Hilbert
Lawrence Cooper
Lesle Lohrman
Hillsdale
Indiana
Grover Hartman
Becky
Lawrence ‘Cooper and
Carl Barkley
Peoria
Allen Campbell
Russell
Russell Taylor
Foster Thompson
Mabel Guthrie
Vern Sanders
Jasonville
Ronnie Sanders
Tom Sanders
William Bosstick
Marion Garner
Norma West
Joan Volkers
New Lenox
Howard Doll
Pleasant Hill School
Colonial Kitchen
Jessie Gallington
Emma Dickerson
Cora Bartram
Ure Arcgie
West Union Community Notes On Visits And Funeral
Mrs Edith Ledermann returned from Union Hospital Terre Haute and hosted visitors including Mrs Dorothy Wernz Mrs Fern Wernz and Mrs Marthe Moore. Dinners guests included Mr and Mrs Wilford Leasure and family and Mrs Hattie Ledermann. Visitors from Stours Connecticut Mr Ronnie Higginbotham and Eric vacationing with Mr and Mrs John Quick of Marshall. Delbert Gilles family from Maywood Illinois vacationing in Canada. Mack Strohm and children attended the Illinois State Fair Springfield. Weekend guests of Mrs Thompson included sister Mia Dorothy Johnson and Willard from Pittsboro Indiana plus Mack Bletbaum and Betty at Beltz reunion Marshall fairground. Mrs Helen Rush hosted Mr and Mrs Larry Shelton Casey and Mrs George Sanders Marshall along with Mr and Mrs Delbert Reynolds West York. Norman Jackson recently discharged from service. Out-of-town visitors for Mrs Maude Grant funeral included Edward Grant and children Cheston Indiana Kenneth Melton Portage Indiana James Grant South Bend Indiana Jerry Grant Nevada Claude Ogle Hillsdale Indiana and Anna Bartlett Hillsdale Indiana. Mrs Grant died Wednesday evening at Union Hospital Terre Haute. Burial was in Harrison Cemetery.
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Edith Ledermann
Union Hospital
Terre Haute
Harry ‘Thompson
Thomp
Mia
Dorothy Johnson
Willard
Pittsboro
Diana
Casey
George Sanders
Marshall
Delbert Reynolds
West York
Rush
Dale Servison
Robinson
Norman Jackson
Maude Grant
Prust-Hosch
Edward Grant
Cheston
Ind
Kenneth Melton
Portage
Indiana
James Grant
South Bend
Jerry Grant
Nevada
Claude Ogle
Hillsdale
Anna Bartlett
Grant
Union
Harrison Cemetery
Community Family Gatherings At Local Franks
Mr and Mrs Richard Bumpus and sons attended the Illinois State Fair at Springfield last week. Mr and Mrs Jerry Strohm and children of Wisconsin spent two weeks with Mr and Mrs Dean Strohm and were Sunday dinner guests of the Strohms. Also visiting were Mr and Mrs Harnett Wright and Mrs Mel Rodgers and Ann of Mattoon rural route and Mr and Mrs Richard Finder and children of Charleston. Mrs Maude Miller visited with Mrs Martha Booker at Marshall Friday. Gena Pamela Eric and Joe Williams were weekend guests of their grandparents Mr and Mrs Woodford Williams while parents contending in Tennessee. Mrs Maude Miller was a Saturday dinner guest of John Blizzard.
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Richard Bumpus
Springfield
Jerry Strohm
Wisconsin
Strohm
Dean Strohm
Strohms
Harnett Wright
Mel Rodgers
Ann
Mattoon
Richard Finder
Charleston
Gena, Pamelia
Eric
Joe Williams
Woodford iWllams
Tennessee
Maude Miller
John Blizzard
Glen Arbuckle
Mill Creek
Dorothy Jean Riggs
Grace Higginbotham
Everett
Ben Strohm
Newton
Oblong
Robinson
West Union
Prust-Hosch
Marion Gard
Ottis Williams
Martinsville
Mary Carpenter
Harry
Walker
Lincoln Trail Park
Gladys Garver
Marshall
Martha Booker
Paris Park
Charles Percy
Edgar Amstott
Delphia Nicol
Eunice Jackson
Mary Davison
Potters Hall
Fred Koppler
Elder Glen Arbuckle to preach at Mill Creek Church
Mrs. Maude Miller notes an annual homecoming Sunday services at Mill Creek Church with Elder Glen Arbuckle presiding. Several local residents attended gatherings and visits across Choctaw on a busy weekend including the Walker reunion and Republican meeting at Paris Park.
Murphy Veach Reunion Promises Forty Years of Ties
The 40th annual Murphy Veach reunion will be held next Sunday at the Marshall location. Organizers invite former attendees to reconnect and share memories at the gathering.
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Murphy-Veach
Marshall
Community Dinner and Compromise Note
A fragment notes a next Sunday event with an All Basket dinner at 12 30 served and invites relatives and friends. It adds a line about compromise and personal courage, suggesting reluctance and potential self wrecking as a consequence.
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John Hudson
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