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CLASS BEHAVIOR
As of a month ago, Mary Ellen and I planned to attend her reunion in Ohio where she would celebrate the 50th anniversary of her graduation from college. We had talked extensively about the event, especially since Mary Ellen was one of the organizers. The truth is, we were both hiding how we really felt…
Read MoreBoilermaker’s Earliest Leaders Walked So Future Leaders Could Run
During the early days of college football, most coaches had other occupations. No, nothing like those cheesy insurance commercials that fatten the bank accounts of Alabama’s Nick Saban and new Colorado coach Deion Sanders. Take Purdue’s first coach in 1887. For the princely sum of “$1 per lesson,” 23-year-old Albert Berg was charged with preparing…
Read MoreNHS Show Choirs Making Us Proud
Some days I wish that high school show choir competition season would never end. I love traveling to the contests on the weekends and watching all of the show choirs perform their best. Most every competition day begins with students rising early in the morning to board school buses to travel to a competition. And…
Read MoreBubba meets AI
“We’re doomed, Timmons!” It was the first thing I heard when I picked up the phone. The twangy drawl left no doubt it was my friend Bubba Castiron. No fake voice, no attempt to fool me into some scam. This was Bubba, pure, plain and oh, so simple. “Well good morning to you, too, Bubba,”…
Read MoreNFD Deputy Chief Chris Gellinger Retires After 37 Years of Service
Chris Gellinger remembers as a teenager when his dad asked him what he was going to do after graduation from Hamilton Heights High School in 1980. ‘He asked me what I thought about taking a firefighter job that became available.” Gellinger said, “After some hesitation, I thought, ‘I’ll give it a try.’ It didn’t take…
Read MoreFrom Time To Thyme
Since March is Women’s History Month, this seemed like the perfect time for a column on Frances Neal Ellis. I’d be willing to bet most people who just read that sentence are muttering “Who the heck is Frances Neal Ellis?” right now. Don’t feel too bad if you’re one of them. I didn’t know who…
Read MoreLions’ Guest, Superintendent Daniel Hile proud of District
Did you know that Noblesville High School has the largest internship program in Indiana? That the NHS Class of ‘2022 earned a record-setting $6.3 million in scholarships? That students speak more than 50 different home languages? And that NHS is the first school in the nation to offer an educator apprenticeship program that is giving…
Read MoreThe Postscript by Carrie Classon
“Chia Pet Moment” “You know, since I’ve been eating these chia seeds, I’ve noticed my beard has gotten heavier.” My husband, Peter, was talking to my father downstairs. I sat up at attention. This comment about the chia seeds was news to me. I knew Peter was eating chia seeds because he thought it might…
Read MoreThe Defiance Of President Biden
When Vice President Joe Biden met with Russian President Putin at the Kremlin in March 2011, he recounted, “I looked into his eyes and I said, ‘I don’t think you have a soul.’” To which Putin responded, “We understand one another.” When ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos asked President Biden years later, “You think he’s…
Read MoreMontgomery Medicine No. 710 Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Someone recently asked me what lymphoma is. My knowledge of the subject was a bit dusty before I started doing some research for this column. Medical knowledge of non-Hodgkin lymphoma has rapidly evolved over the last decade or so. It is a very interesting disease and a type of cancer that is illustrative of recent…
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