25 Years Ago This Week

Bethany school district selected Stewardson native Allan Manhart as new junior-senior high school principal. He has spent the previous 21 years in the Cissna Park School District as assistant principal and athletic director. Previous principal David Nolan accepted the high school principal position in Leroy.

David Fehr spent 11 years bringing the Sullivan schools show choir program to national recognition. Fehr, a Cissna Park native, was musical director at The Little Theatre for 12 seasons and blended the school programs into Little Theatre performances. He has accepted the choral director position at Clinton, Miss. High School, replacing the retiring national award winning director Winona Costello.

Little Theatre manager Leonard Anderson is giving up his four and a half year old beard to play Officer Krupke in The West Side Story.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.