60 years ago, May 22, 1961Sally Moore, Elmer Pense Take Top Awards Thursday At Northern Jr. CollegeSally Lea Moore, Tonkawa, and Elmer Pense, Broken Arrow, were recipients of the Alumni Scholastic awards, given annually to the outstanding graduates in academics at Northern Junior college. President V. B. Easterling made the presentation.Pense walked away with three additional top student awards.Outstanding students of this school year were honored in the annual awards assembly Thursday in Wilkin auditorium. Each student was recognized for achievements in his own field of study.Jim Dickerson, Braman, student body president was in charge of the program and the 1961-62 student officers, Frank McDuffee, Tonkawa, and Bob Williams, Ponca City, were installed.’04 Graduate Returns for First Visit in 50 YearsFifty years ago, Edward P. Reed decided not to run for a second term as clerk of the district court in Kay county and to go to California instead. Friday, he returned to Tonkawa for the first time since he left in 1911.The many changes that have taken place in Tonkawa were not so surprising to the former resident as the fact that so many people are still around that he used to know. As the word was passed around town first one then another came around to talk with him.Reed’s keen mind and physical agility belie his 81 years. He remembers well his schoolmates at University Prep school where he was in the first graduating class of 1904.A fullback on the first UPS team, he rattles off names of the halfbacks, quarterback and linemen on the squad as if it were only last year they played together. Classmates will remember him as “Parson” Reed. His only regret at visiting here last week is that he will miss the alumni banquet to be held next Saturday, but he didn’t know of it when he planned the trip from his home in Whittier.It was Reed’s father, C. S. Reed, who constructed the first building in Tonkawa. It was located at what is now the site of McPherson’s service station at the corner of Main and Grand.Born in Niotaze, Kans., Ed Reed came to Tonkawa with his parents at the opening of the Cherokee Strip in 1893. His father operated a general store and a livery stable here for a number of years.River Is Bank Full After Heavy Week End RainfallThe Salt Fork river had apparently reached a crest of 17.01 feet ...
