FORUM FLASHBACKS: May 2-3

By Editor | May 2, 2019 |

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Participants in an April 2014 fundraising project benefitting House of Hope, which operates a school and orphanage in Haiti, are pictured during a check presentation at the Maryville Hy-Vee supermarket. Pictured from left: Bayo Oludaja, Jacquie Lamer, Michelle Patton, Hy-Vee Store Director Chris Wiltfong and Kelsey Chabot.

25 years ago

Maryville City officials say the search for a new city manager is on schedule.
Maryville Mayor Dale Mathes said Friday that interviews were conducted throughout last week.
“I think before too long we’ll have one on board,” Mathes said. “We’ve had some good applicants.”
Apparently other communities felt the same way. Mathes said one finalist, who was scheduled to meet with officials Friday, had been hired by another city.
In a press release issued by the city in late April, the search had been reduced to four finalists for the position. There were 61 applicants for the position that were then pared down to 12 before selecting the final four.
Patrick B. Harr, M.D., Maryville received one of three Service Awards given by the University of Missouri-Columbia Medical Alumni Organization recently during a luncheon in Kansas City. The presentation was held in conjunction with the Missouri State Medical Association’s annual meeting.
Harr, a 1969 graduate, was among eight alumni and supporters of the MU School of Medicine honored at the event. The award is bestowed on alumni who have distinguished themselves through service to their communities.
Harr is a family physician with Family Medicine and Surgery Associates in Maryville and is on the medical staff of St. Francis Hospital.

15 Years ago

The Maryville Host Lions Club has presented the Missouri Lions Eye Research Foundation with a donation of $1,550.
The gift will assist in the funding of a variety of the foundation’s projects that are dedicated to the preservation and restoration of sight.
Programs that will benefit from the donation include free glaucoma screening, an amblyopia screening program for Missouri’s children, eye care assistance for Missourians without insurance or means of obtaining eye care and an eyeglass recycling program that recycles used eyeglasses for transport overseas by humanitarian groups.
Additionally, the foundation’s largest program, Heartland Lions Eye Banks, restores sight at a rate of five people per day by providing cornea transplant tissue.
With the naming a search committee, the process for selecting Northwest Missouri State University’s next provost has begun, President Dean L. Hubbard announced this week.
The position will open at the end of the fall trimester when current provost, C. Taylor Barnes, leaves to take the position of distinguished professor of geography at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Hubbard said the position is being advertised, and that the nomination process will be held open until the position is filled. He expects a “short list” of applicants to be compiled by Sept. 1.

5 years ago

For centuries, man’s best friend has done everything in its power to calm, soothe and assist the human race. And in Beth Goudge’s class at Eugene Field Elementary School, the faithful dog is continuing that age-old mission.
Therapy dogs visit Goudge’s special education classroom twice each Thursday in order to help students with their reading.
The dogs are part of the Pet Partners organization, a non-profit group that works to help people live healthier, happier lives by providing access to therapy, service and companion animals.
Goudge and special education teacher Hanna Erspamer say the dogs are a welcome presence.
Northwest football seniors Trevor Adams, Cody Carlson, Joel Gantz and Bryant Hummel were named to the National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society on Tuesday.
The Hampshire Honor Society comprises college football players from all divisions who maintained a cumulative 3.2 GPA or better throughout their college career.
A total of 838 players from 267 schools qualified for membership in the society’s eighth year, setting a new record.