Compiled by Bekki Ferguson-Stevens

25 Years Ago This Week

Lovington High School senior Andy Kidwell and junior Joy Gale will attend the Midwest Yearbook Experience Workshop July 7-10 at Millikin University in Decatur. Tidwell is the son of Dave and Julie Kidwell, and Gale is the daughter of Tom and Sarah Gale.

Denise Jean Piatt of rural Sullivan, a seventh and eighth grade math teacher, is one of 30 math teachers selected for the second year of a two year project funded by the National Science Foundation, the Illinois Board of Higher Education and Southern Illinois University.

Degrees have now been officially awarded to 1,243 spring semester graduates at Eastern Illinois University.Several area students are among the spring graduates. They include Sullivan residents Patty Jean Linville, Shelly Jo Richardson, Caprice A. Scherer and Robbie Lee White. Others include James B. Underwood of Bethany; Jamison Taylor Boyd of Lovington; Jody Lynn Schmitt of Gays; Wendy Sue Kersey of Windsor;  and from Arthur Jeffrey S. Johnson, Jill S. McDonald and Joseph Messmate.

Toby and Wes Bolsen, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Bolsen of Lovington, will exhibit Angus cattle at the 1991 National Junior Angus Show July 17-20 at State Fair Park in Milwaukee, Wis. Both boys are junior members of the association and will be among 421 young Angus breeders who have entered 862 head in the show.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.