Forum Flashbacks: Nov. 12-18
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, NOV. 15, 2001
25 YEARS AGO: Chelli Green, a fifth-grade science teacher at St. Gregory’s School, helps demonstrate the unit on volume and converting gallons into metrics. The class made predictions on the different amounts of water which were displaced after totally submerging the three boys and three girls, randomly selected by Green. Pictured is Wal-Mart’s Teacher of the Year Green, Eric Barmann in the trash container and Nick Rasmussen who is lending a hand.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Nov. 8, 1976
Extra Work Makes R-2 Band a Success
One of the main reasons the Maryville R-2 High School’s Marching Band has won several honors this fall is the work and effort the director, Lee T. Schneider, puts into the group and its performances.
Schneider and the band have gone to two contests this fall: the Clarinda Southwest Iowa Band Jamboree and the Central Methodist College Band Day in Fayette; and have won top honors at each contest. …
“They get up more energy for a contest — they were pretty keyed up for Clarinda this year,” Schneider says.
Besides the contests and marching at home football games, the band has performed this fall at Worlds of Fun, the Northwest Missouri State University homecoming parade and for the Veteran’s Day program on the Courthouse lawn Thursday in their last outdoor performance. …
Mrs. Schneider has also helped the band, for 16 years as a volunteer, and this year as part of the music staff at the high school. She does much of the chartwork for formations, with both her and her husband planning the shows together.
25 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Nov. 18, 2001
Grant City youth is Heisman Trophy finalist
Hard work and dedication has sown rewards and for one Worth County high school student, Christopher Andrew Healy, it has paid off beyond his own expectations.
The Grant City senior has been named a national finalist in the Wendy’s High School Heisman (WHSH) award. Healy was selected to represent the Southwest region as a national finalist.
At a surprise assembly held Monday, Nov. 12, Healy was presented a bronze medal for being named a state semi-finalist, a silver medal for being named as the Missouri State Finalist and was surprised when it was announced he was one of the National Finalists.
“I was very surprised and excited,” Healy said. “All my classmates seem to be very happy for me and the media attention has been really different.”
As well as doing media interviews during the day and rest of the week, Healy was taped by ESPN, going through his daily school routine, for a program which will be aired at 4 p.m. Dec. 8 on ESPN 2.
Healy’s honor will culminate in a Dec. 6 to 9 trip to New York City, during which the two National winners will be announced during an awards banquet Dec. 7 at the New York Downtown Athletic Club, home of the college Heisman Memorial Trophy since 1935.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 50-year flashback is courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, accessible at shsmo.newspapers.com.
