Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, May 19, 1977

Sixty-nine members of the Mount Ayr Community high school class of 1977 will receive diplomas at commencement exercises May 24 in the high school gym. Speaker will be Keith KIRKPATRICK, farm director of radio station WHO in Des Moines.

Members of the graduating class are:

Dan ADAIR, Matthew BAKER, Kenneth BEEDE, Charles BENNETT, Curtis BRABY, Ruth SCHLAPIA, Stanley BUTLER, Douglas CAMPBELL, Tammie COLE, Richard COMBS, Cynthia CONLEY, Lesa CREVELING, Sjouke de JONG, Kristy DRAKE, Kent ENGLAND, Mark ERICKSON, Shelley FLOYD, Timothy GILES, Steven GILLILAND, Kristeen GLICK, Kirk GOLLIDAY, Rickey GRAHAM, Mack GREENE, Kathy GREGG, Curtis HIXSON, Cindy HOWIER, Larry HUNT, Jean IRVING, Donna JOHNSON, Mary JOHNSON, Judith JOHNSON, Melanie JOHNSON, Scott JOHNSON, Mark KNAPP, Linda LINK, Eldon McALEXANDER, Robert McLEAD, Joyce MAUDLIN, Rhonda MILLER, Roger MILLER, Julia MORSE, Sandra NEWBY, Bryan NOBLE, Nola OLNEY, Patricia PIERSON, Bruce REYNOLDS, Georgia ROBINSON, John ROBERTS, Tammy SAVILLE, Becky SCHAFER, Michael SCHMIDT, Lesa SICKELS, Michael SICKELS, John SKARDA, Marcy SOLLIDAY, Eugene SPENCER, Nancy STERLING, Douglas Edwin STILL, Gordon STILL, Edward SWIGART, Barbara THURMAN, Diana TRIGGS, Barbara WAGENKNECHT, Terry WEEDA, Colleen WERNER, Katherine WHITSON, Marcella WILKINS, Michael WOOD and Donald ZOLLMAN.

Mrs. Irvan (Leola) DOLECHECK was in Omaha, NE on May 5 as a guest of the Women's Omaha Chamber of Commerce's annual recognition day and honored as Ringgold County Rural Homemaker.

Curt BRABY and Mike EASON are the Mount Ayr Raider track members who qualified for the state class B track meet scheduled for Drake Stadium, Des Moines. BRABY won the discus with a toss of 141'7 1/1" and EASON finished second in the 880-yard run in 2:04.29 to qualify.

Movies playing during June at the Princess Theatre in Mount Ayr are "Carrie," "Bugsy Malone," "Young Frankenstein," and "King Kong."

  Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2012

 

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