Published: July 04, 2009 05:35 pm         

LOOKING BACK: 1984: Carmelite nuns of Terre Haute invite public on ‘A Journey of Faith’

Dorothy Jerse looks back at local history from 10,25 and 50 years ago as reported in the Tribune and Tribune-Star.



1999

• The Terre Haute Torpedoes U.S. Swim Team competed at the IUPUI Natatorium placing eighth of 19 teams from all over the nation. Brian Heaton and Donnie Bush were the coaches.

n Holly Klotz, West Vigo High School graduate who was instrumental in the success of West Vigo’s Community of Caring project, received a Daily Point of Light Award.

n The Wayne Newton Post 346 American Legion baseball team was undefeated in the Princeton Invitational winning the championship game over Vincennes.

n The Bemis Company Foundation awarded a $7,095 grant to Gibault School for Boys to use for staff training by Boys Town personnel from Omaha, Nebr.

n Don Brazzell and Joan Keegan were named King of Cowboys and Frontier Girl in the Wabash Valley Horseman’s Association annual Frontier Day Parade. John Hendrix and Tara McMillan were the junior royalty.

n After four years in Terre Haute, American International Freight was moving its cargo operation to Fort Wayne affecting 300 mostly part-time workers. It was the fourth air cargo operation to have come and gone from Terre Haute in the past 12 years.

1984

n Martin’s Snap Shop, one of the original stores in The Meadows, was closing. Stewart and Charlotte Martin had opened the business 28 years before, had sold it in 1979, and returned in 1982 to operate it once again.

n Robert Beall succeeded Jack Gelder, vice-president and general manager of WTWO-TV who retired.

n George Loesch and Mike Hambrock won the men’s division and Janet Mace and Diane Jackson the women’s competition at the Terre Haute Tennis Club Doubles Tourney at Rea Park.

n The Carmelite nuns of Terre Haute invited the public to join them on “A Journey of Faith” involving nine days of prayer in the Chapel of Carmel, Allendale.

n Girl Scout Camp Na-Wa-Kwa in southeastern Clay County celebrated its 30th anniversary. The facility had been dedicated on July 6, 1954, and opened to the first 120 campers from the Terre Haute Covered Bridge Girl Scout Council.

n Co-owner Bill Elliott announced Ross Elliott Jewelers, 622 Wabash Ave., was opening a branch in Honey Creek Square. Lee Black was to be the manager.

1959

n Root’s store announced plans to erase “the old fashioned Victorian fussiness” of the three Wabash Avenue buildings it occupied with a striking new facade. The improvement was said “to contribute greatly to the enhancement of the downtown shopping district.”

n South Lake Beach, 11/2 miles southwest of West Terre Haute, advertised motor boating, water skiing and swimming. Admission was 35 cents for adults and 15 cents for children.

n Key Auto Sales, 1800 Wabash Ave., re-opened as a Plymouth and DeSoto dealership with Thomas P. O’Daniel as general manager.

n Joe S. Francis and William Johnston headed the three-day sixth annual Free Fair staged by the Prairieton Firemen and Fire Department Auxiliary to raise funds for the installation of a water supply needed to fill tank trucks.

n Mrs. Louis Theide, Mrs. Margaret Barnes, Mrs. Alex Irving and Mrs. P. N. Sturtevant were the new officers of the Vigo County Republican Women’s Club installed at the Throckmartin Restaurant.

n John T. Royse, Merchants National Bank president, announced plans for a southside branch at 2004 S. Third St.