Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, August 27, 1987

Four new teachers will be part of the faculty at the school for the new year. At the elementary school will be Stacey DUTY, who will be the new teacher for the special education preschool program. Another of the new teachers will be part of the junior high staff. Ken HURMENCE will be the junior high English teacher. Two new instructors will be teaching on the high school level. Daniel HOVDENIS the new high school biology and health instructor. Betsy JONES will teach English and speech and be the new speech and drama coach.

Grand Valley students will have three faculty new faces in the halls when students there return to school Tuesday, Sept. 1. New instructors there include Christa MILLER, who will teach music; Scott GILES, who will teach social studies and physical education and coach girls volleyball, and Ken HATFIELD, who will teach Spanish on the elementary and secondary levels.

Diagonal Community school will have three new teachers and a different format. The sixth, seventh and eighth graders will be attending classes at Clearfield. New teachers for the 1987-88 school year include Paul GEBEL of Lawler, who will teach business classes in the high school, physical education and have track, softball and assistant basketball coaching duties. Judy PEHRSON of Creston will have high school and elementary remedial reading and Title I programs. Sue MOBLEY of Benton will be the new third grade teacher.

A threesome of Ken MARKLEY, Ted SMITH and Chuck DOWNEY, with a 63, won top honors in the first, three-man, best ball tourney to be held at Sun Valley Golf and Country Club near Ellston on August 16. They won first over 27 teams. Second place in the championship fiight was a team of Dave STILL, Doug McKERN and Al HILL, with 64, and third place went to John TAYLOR, Jack TAYLOR and Dennis TASSELL with 65.

When Dorothy EYBERG of Arispe closed the doors on the Ringgold and Union County Fairs this summer, she walked away from successfully giving leadership to 55 county fairs in her 32 years as an Iowa State University Extension home economist.

James "Toad" TULL, six-year-old son of James and Rhonda TULL of Diagonal, returned to Iowa Methodist Medical Center, Younkers, for therapy, after a week at home. Toad came home August 15 and returned August 24. He received head injuries in a three-wheeler accident July 31 and was taken by Air Life to IMMC. The accident left him with some paralysis on his right side and therapy was to be for his right arm and leg. He is walking with a brace now, according to his grandfather, Howard TULL of Diagonal.

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2012

 

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