News from our past: Top Scholars

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Students from Eastmont High School are named to The Wenatchee Daily World’s scholastic team for 1961. From left, front row, Beverly Miller, Margaret Hastings, Karen Whitbeck, Julie Bland and Barbara Ikenberry; back row, Phil Morrill, J. Paul Graybill, Kelly Brandon, Bob Thomson, George Long and Joe Woolett.

100 years ago

Blanche Miller of Mansfield is in Wenatchee visiting friends.

Rose Devine of Waterville and Mrs. C.R. McKinley of Brewster are both registered at the Hotel Elman in Wenatchee this week.

Members of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union will hold their monthly bake sale Saturday at the Orondo Grocery.

James E. Keane of Rock Island is in Wenatchee today on business.

50 years ago

Voters have decided that the Happy Home and Waterville school districts will be consolidated.

Mrs. Noel Morical of Orondo has been elected second vice president of the Washington State Congress of Parents and Teachers.

The Bridgeport Bar unit of Chief Joseph Dam’s irrigation project is the top money earner in the project, according to a report from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The average crop value per irrigated acre in that unit in 1960 was $221. The Brewster Flat unit had an average crop value per acre of $191.

25 years ago

Douglas County Auditor Laurie Evenhus will be among a group of auditors next week meeting the singing duo The Judds. Naomi and Wynonna Judd will tape a public service message on voting for the Washington State Auditors Association. Evenhus is a member of the association’s education committee, which is sponsoring a voter outreach program this year. Taping will take place in Spokane.

A record high 141.3 million bushels of wheat was being stored in Washington state as of April 1, according to the Washington Crop and Livestock Reporting Service. This exceeds the previous record of 123 million bushels in storage on April 1, 1984.

Dirk Glessner is valedictorian and Esther Lassiter is salutatorian for the graduating class at Mansfield High School.

Maya Barham, Aaron Dalke and Greg Reiber, students at Orondo Elementary School, are preparing for their annual school carnival.

10 years ago

The Link Transit Advisory Council has been formed to advise Link board members and staff. It will be chaired by Bill Dobbins, manager of the Douglas County PUD.

Tyler Sellers, a student at Eastmont High School, is one of four area students selected by the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board to receive the Washington Award for Vocational Excellence.

Gov. Gary Locke has unveiled a $17.2 billion transportation plan that includes money for a new Eastside highway and approaches to the Sen. George Sellar Bridge, state Department of Transportation officials say. The statewide 10-year-plan, which would mean higher taxes for motorists, now goes to the state Legislature where reaction to the plan was generally favorable. House and Senate transportation leaders, however, still are crafting their own proposals.

Eastmont High School senior Matthew Pippin has been accepted as a student at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City.