60 years ago, February 1, 1960
C-C Banquet Will Draw Full House
The largest crowd in the history of the event is expected to attend the annual chamber of commerce banquet here Thursday evening at which Gov. J. Howard Edmondson will be the speaker.
Tickets to the affair have been sold out for nearly two weeks, with chamber members allowed two tickets each on a first comefirst served basis until a total of 300 was reached.
Parnell Bolick, president of the chamber, said the 300 persons would be a capacity crowd for the student union of Northern Oklahoma Junior college, site of the banquet. There will be no more tickets availabe he said.
Governor Edmondson will be introduced by Francis Langdon, longtime friend of the governor and a member of the Oklahoma Planning Resources board.
President Bolick will take “A Look at Sixty” prior to the governor’s address, an outlining of the 1960 program of work adopted by the board of directors.
R. L. Crowder will serve as master of ceremonies; dinner music will be furnished by Mrs. Bill Tulles.
Special music for the banquet will be presented by the Modern Choir of the Tonkawa high school, under the direction of Miss June Skeels. The Reverend Frank Scholte will give the invocation; Rex Kimbrough will close the dinner with the benediction.
Four THS Students On All-State Choir
Four Tonkawa high school students were named to the Superior Choir at the All-State chorus held Jan. 28-30 on the University of Oklahoma campus, according to Miss June Skeels, vocal music instructor of the Tonkawa High school.
Selected to sing with the 116-voice choir were Tana Wood, Phyllis Mourer, Bill Fix and Gerald O’Mealey.
More than 600 selected vocalists from 90 Oklahoma high schools attended the event which included two days of intensive vocal work and a choral concert.
The concert, held at 2 p.m. Saturday in OU’s Holmberg hall, featured the choir and a 468-voice chorus.
Also selected to attend the music event from Tonkawa were Marsha Chandler, Robert Diemer, Claudette Hubbell, Ruth King, and Bill Plummer.
50 years ago, January 29, 1970
Marcia McSparrin Is Homemaker of Tomorrow
Marcia McSparrin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rex McSparrin, on the basis of her score in the homemaking knowledge and attitude test taken by senior girls Dec. 2, is Tonkawa’s 1970 Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow, it has been announced. She received a silver award charm in the school assembly Wednesday, and is now eight for one of 102 college ...
