Forum Flashbacks: Oct. 1 – Oct. 7

By Geoffrey Woehlk | October 2, 2020 |

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Forum Flashbacks: 25 years ago – MHS Homecoming Queen Kelly Archer is presented flowers while Homecoming King Heath Burch looks on.

25 years ago

Last night around 8 p.m. the architect for the Northeast Nodaway R-V School District received the go ahead to start final plans for the new building and addition at the district’s two schools.
The district gave overwhelming support to two measures on a special levy election, Oct. 3, which eliminated the rollback in the operating levy and approved an increase of $.20 per $100 assessed valuation in the operating levy.
Both propositions received over 80 percent of the vote, while one only needed a simple majority to pass and the other needed two-thirds of the vote.
“I can’t express in words how excited I am,” Dr. James Carlton, superintendent, said about the overwhelming majority the issue received.

15 years ago

Allene Hunt Porter, a 1941 graduate of Northwest Missouri State University who died in 2002, has left a majority of her estate to Northwest to create the Hunt-Porter Scholarship Fund in memory of her family and her late husband, Ben Porter.
That gift, slightly more than $1 million, helped establish the second largest scholarship fund in Northwest’s history. The scholarships will be awarded to deserving Missouri high school graduates who plan to pursue a career in teaching.
Hunt Porter’s nephew, Marvin Porter Dixon, said his aunt loved to teach, and that teaching ran in the family — her two sisters were teachers in Colorado and Illinois.
“She was so proud to be a teacher,” Dixon said. “She could see firsthand the impact that teachers had on their students and in the community. She wanted to make sure that others could share her pride in being able to make a difference.”
Dr. Thomas DiStefano, orthopedic surgeon at St. Francis Hospital and Health Services, has recently been invited to serve as a “neutral physician” by the National Football League Management Council and the NFL Players Association.
DiStefano will examine recently released NFL players and determine the nature of their injury, if any, and estimate a time frame for recovery and return to football-playing condition. Typically, “neutral physicians” examine one to three NFL players each year.
“I’m very excited to add this position while continuing to take care of athletic injuries at Northwest Missouri State University and the many surrounding area high schools,” DiStefano said.

5 years ago

For the second time this year, Maryville High School has earned recognition from a national news organization for academic excellence and student success.
Back in August the school, which serves about 470 students, learned that it had won a bronze medal in the Best High Schools survey compiled annually by U.S. News & World Report.
The most recent distinction comes from Newsweek, which ranked MHS 355th out of 500 on its America’s Top High Schools list.
An estimated one million people crowded into downtown Philadelphia Saturday and Sunday to see and hear Pope Francis spread his message of international compassion, social justice, and environmental responsibility.
And a local couple, whose relationship mirrors the pope’s call for acceptance and understanding, were there to witness a moment likely to cast a bright, lingering glow across both history and faith.
The Rev. Scott Moon, pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Maryville, and his wife, Michele, a lifelong Catholic and pastoral associate at St. Gregory Barbarigo Catholic Church, were part of a group of about 300 people from the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph who journeyed last week to the City of Brotherly Love.
While there they watched the pope participate in Saturday’s World Meeting of Families and celebrate an open-air Mass the following day.