Forum Flashbacks: June 25-July 1
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, JULY 1, 2001
25 YEARS AGO: Town & Country Days Little Miss is Madison Hagey (front, left) and Little Mr. is Devin Goff. They were crowned during Friday evening activities at the annual event. Also pictured is Charla Carter, who interviewed the contestants and her two assistants.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, July 1, 1976
Letter to the Editor: Kill Spoofy? Perish the Thought
To the Editor:
During the 1975-76 academic year, several editorials appeared in the Maryville Hi-Lights advocating the change of the Maryville R-2 mascot. If my memory serves me correctly, it was J-staffer Steve Hartman who authored the articles advocating this change.
Although no alternative mascot was proposed, we ask what he would have us be — Tigers? Ravens? Bears? Cardinals? Indians? There is no other mascot which is so remarkably unique as a Spoofhound! The enclosed resolution — signed by more than 100 R-2 high school graduates and former faculty, staff and administrative personnel — attests to the fact that Maryville graduates are proud to be Spoofhounds, a unique breed in origin, name and spirit.
It is our hope that prior to further advocating a change in the school’s mascot that supporters of this ludicrous proposal will consider this resolution in support of Spoofy. We also strongly suggest that those who would have us be something other than Spoofhounds should seek to discover the views of hundreds of more MHS alumni before proceeding with a scheme to change the school mascot.
Please, keep Spoofy.
Sincerely,
Maryville R-2 High School Class of 1966
Rodney Couts, Secretary
75 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, June 27, 1951
Legion Sponsors Penguin Exhibit Friday, Saturday
Maryvillians are really due an eyfull(sic) Friday and Saturday, when Pete Callender and his wife arrive to exhibit a quartet of penguins. Callender has material concerning the tux-fronted birds, which should prove interesting to all ages and types of people.
Callender’s large ice-cooled van will be stationed on the northwest corner of the courthouse square from 12 noon until 9:30 p.m. both days. The display is being sponsored locally by the James Edward Gray American Legion post. …
The two hens and a brace of males, on their first tour of the United States, left the Antarctic Circle about a year ago, but spent six months acclimating themselves to foreign aquatic haunts on the West Coast.
Callender, who still carries an ugly scar across his left cheek as the result of a penguin’s hook-pointed bill, testifies readily to the evil tempers of the birds. The quartet, known as Wimpy and Pam, and Billy and Tillie, today weigh between 26 to 31 pounds, and are able occasionally to bowl over their trainer with lightning attacks. …
Equipped and accustomed to swimming upwards of 100 miles a day, the quartet can enjoy confinement for no more than four or five weeks at a time. They are then shipped by air back to a West Coast aquarium in exchange for four different birds.
The pit in which the short-feathered creatures are kept contains several hundreds (of) pounds of ice. There are also facilities for taking a short dip and at one end of the ramp is a sand pit.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 50- and 75-year flashbacks are courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, accessible at shsmo.newspapers.com.
