Looking Back – July 16

Library volunteer and retired teacher Patty Unrue reads to Liam Dooley, 5, on July 14, 2014, at the Elizabethtown Children’s Library.

From The Republic archives

2014

Dennis DeYoung and his band, Styx, stepped up to be the headliner of the free annual Our Hospice of South Central Indiana concert after the classic rock band Kansas had to pull out of the Columbus show.

1999

Arvin Industries Inc.’s Board of Directors elected James E. Perrella as a new board member and director. Perrella was a Purdue University graduate and a member of the dean’s advisory council of Purdue’s Krannert School of Management.

1974

Ernie Blanchette of Columbus was awarded a trophy as the best evening speaker at the July bimonthly meeting of the Columbus Toastmasters Club at Anvil Restaurant. Evaluators for the formal speeches were Larry Misner, Harry Ellison and Robert Janes.