Giant City eighth grader wins Illinois science fair regional
Ted Petith of Giant City School won the Region 8 Science Fair at Southern Illinois University Carbondale with his project Aging An Experiment in Visual Discrimination in the Rat earning a $100 prize and Navy briefcase. 285 projects were entered with 24 other juniors and seniors earning cash awards, and state finalists named for Urbana on May 9.
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Giant City
Giant City School
Carbondale
Southern Illinois University- Carbondale
Petith
Navy
Urbana
SIUC
Morgan Phillips
Tim Greenwood
Jonesboro
Leah Ellison
Anna Junior High
Joey McMahon
Anna Junior
Chris Brand
Red Bud
Elizabeth Fortman
Leah Knoblach
John Paul Schmidt
Dongola
Joe del Byassee
Meridian High
Julie Ann Hill
Marissa
Wayne Nadler
Cory Ashley
Joe Boswell
Trico
Joyce Dierks
Sheri Quilman
Dickey Bigler
Anna
Stuart James
John W. Voigt
Siu-C
Siu-C School of Medicine
College of Liberal Arts
College of Science
MacMurray choir on tour with 45 voices
Robin Scott Biermann of Steelville and Susan M. Gusse of Tamaroa, freshmen at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, join the 45 member college concert choir on a weeklong tour of Illinois and St Louis area schools and churches under the direction of Richard Hanson.
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Robin Scott Biermann
Steeleville
Susan M. Gusse
Tamaroa
MacMurray College
Jacksonville
Illinois
St. Louis
Camporee Draws 164 Area Scouts From 18 Troops
Fully 164 Boy Scouts from 18 troops competed in a camporee sponsored over the weekend by Alpha Phi Omega at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The Aux Vases Irregulars, a Carbondale black powder and rifle history club, demonstrated guns and period dress from early French settlers to the Civil War.
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Alphi Phi Omega Service Fraternity
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Aux Vases
Powder and Rifle History Club
Carbondale
Deborah Braun Dances at Earlham Old English May Day
Deborah Braun daughter of T A Braun of 505 Orchard Drive Carbondale will perform as a Country Dancer at Earlham College Old English May Day in Richmond Indiana on May 16. The event expects more than 1000 Elizabethan characters and about 8000 spectators. Braun also rehearses for Menotti opera The Unicorn the Gorgon and the Manticore as part of the festival.
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T. A. Braun
Orchard Drive
Carbondale
Earlham College
Richmond
Ind
Earlham
Miss Braun
Earlham College Chamber Singers
Gian Carlo Menotti
Wohlwend Earns Eagle Award at Carbondale Ceremony
Charles D Wohlwend of Carbondale Troop 133 received the Eagle Scout Award in a March 23 ceremony at Grace United Methodist Church Carbondale. Gene Chamness chaired, Marvin Oetjen presented the award. Wohlwend is a senior at Carbondale Community High School. His project raised funds for the Lions Club Telethon benefiting Easter Seal Society, aided by Troop 133 and troopmaster Richard Marchal.
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Charles D. Wohlwend
Carbondale
Gene Chamness
Marvin Oetjen
Grace United Methodist
Paducah
Richard Marchal
Murphysboro FFA Banquet Tonight at High School
The Murphysboro Future Farmers of America chapter will host a parent son banquet at the high school cafeteria. Guest speaker Don Handy will discuss gasohol in a talk open to the public at about 8 o clock after dinner.
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Murphysboro Future Farmers of America
Don Handy
Shawnee High Team Wins Farm Management Contest
A team from Shawnee High School near Wolf Lake won first place in a farm management contest at Shawnee College. Pinckneyville High finished second. both teams earned trips to the state contest this month.
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Shawnee High School
Wolf Lake
Shawnee College
Pinckneyville High
Eighth graders learn CPR to save lives in Carbondale
Thirteen year olds at Lincoln Junior High in Carbondale study CPR for two weeks using life size dummies. About 40 students learn to assess situations and perform basic first aid for heart attacks, suffocations, overdoses, poisonings and shocks.
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Jean Ness
Southern Illinoisan
Lincoln Junior
Carbondale
Annie
Kaila Cox
Daryl Waller
Kaila
Waller
Patsy Gilcrest
Illinois Heart Association
Jill Matson
Shawnee High to Choose Chorus Queen at Wolf Lake
Shawnee High School hosts its Chorus Queen talent show at 7 30 p m Thursday in the school auditorium with a panel of external judges. Contestants include Lori Kaufman Thebes Teresa Browder Grand Tower Sharon Holtzclaw McClure Jackie Long Jonesboro Vera Marberry Tammy Griffith Jonny Edwards East Cape and Angela Sanders Jonesboro.
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Shawnee High School
Wolf Lake
Holtzclaw
McClure
Jackie Long
Jonesboro
Vera Marberry
Tammy Griffith
Jonny Edwards
East Cape
Angela Sanders
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