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75 Years Ago - Nov. 24, 1949
RANDOLPH – A light snow, which failed to cover the ground, and was discernible only in sheltered places, fell here Sunday evening and during the night Sunday for the seasons’ first snow. Last year, the first snow was on November 7. The first snow came one year plus two days after the memorable November 18-19 blizzard of 1948 which deposited an estimated 15 inches of snow in this territory. The snow, with more and more added as the winter progressed, did not leave until well into the spring.
The snow came after a day of hard winds, in which a velocity of 64 miles an hour in gusts was reported by the o$cial weather bureau at Norfolk.
Several times the sustained wind velocity was 65 miles an hour. The winds abated early Monday. There have been intermittent strong winds in this territory frequently the past week. The weather turned much colder but Tuesday the skies were cloudless and the temperature much warmer and the mercury reached the upper part of the forties.
60 Years Ago - Nov. 19, 1964
RANDOLPH – Duchess, a pedigreed German Shorthair hunting dog has been reunited with her master after being ‘forgotten’ at the Cedar Motel when a group of hunters left here November 6.
On the morning of November 6, Ed Shelberg and his hunting companions packed their belong ings in their car for the return trip to their homes. Their hunting dogs were loaded in a U-haul trailer and they began their homeward trip to Lansing, Mich.
Several hundred miles later, they stopped to make a check on the dogs and discovered Duchess was missing.
They immediately called the Cedar Motel and the absentee was located.
*** RANDOLPH – Mayor Gordon Dennis has appointed a commit- tee to make a study of provisions of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act to determine if some type of project might be possible in the Randolph area.
Bill Borders will serve as chairman of the three-man committee. Others are Paul Tunink and Ray Patent, Neil Kluver will serve as an advisor to the committee and Vance Viergutz was named in charge of publicity.
50 Years Ago - Nov. 21, 1974
RANDOLPH At the fifth anni versary supper of the Lions Club held Friday evening at the City auditorium, Don Brodersen received the Lion of the Year Award, the presentation being made by Lion Russell Jensen.
Sixty members, wives and guests were present for the anniver- sary supper.
District Governor Ralph Eickho, in ad - dition to speaking to the group, presented pins to 10 new mem- bers of the club.
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RANDOLPH – Approximately 900 persons went through the line for pancakes and sausage Saturday as the Randolph Community Club hosted its annual feed.
Following are amounts of food- stus used for the event: Sausage . . . 180 lbs.
Pancake flour . . . 190 lbs. Milk (1/2 pints) . . . 530 Syrup . . . 126 pints Coee . . . 8 lbs.
Eggs . . . 18 1/2 dozen Buttermilk . . . 40 gallons Butter . . . 40 lbs.
40 Years Ago - Nov. 22, 1984
RANDOLPH – The regular monthly meeting of the Randolph Board of Education on November 12 provided a variety of decisions that are of interest to patrons in the district.
The board held a discussion on the wrestling program and it was pointed out that presently two freshmen, one sophomore, three juniors and two seniors are participating The discussion pointed out that the total boy enrollment in some of the lower grades is low in numbers, indicating what the board described as a lack of sound foundation for multi-sports during the same time of year. Follow ing the discussion, the board voted to discontinue the wrestling program after the 1985-86 school year.
A letter of resignation was read to the board that indicated that Richard Daws would no longer be able to serve as a board member. Following the board's acceptance of Mr. Daws' resignation, Larry Alderson was ap- pointed to fill the position eective at the December meeting. Mr. Alderson would have been seated in January of 1985 as a result of the recent election.
*** RANDOLPH – Several major proj- ects were undertaken by the execu tive committee in preparation of the coming of the Randolph Centennial at their monthly meeting on Monday evening.
The committee decided that the 100th anniversary of Randolph would be held on the weekend on July 12-13 in 1986 with the length of the observance to be decided at fu- ture meetings. It appeared from the discussion of committee members, and representatives of the Community Club’s Fair committee that the livestock show, home economics dis plays and other 4-H related projects would be part of the observance.
The committee appointed Marvin Taylor to be chairman of the historical committee that would be in charge of preparing a publication for printing in time for the Centen- nial. The committee instructed the chairman to prepare a list of names that would be willing to serve on the historical committee that would be willing to prepare the needed infor- mation for the publication. Presently persons or possibly organizations are being asked to volunteer to serve on that committee. Anyone that de serves a position on that committee is asked to contact Marvin Taylor at the Randolph Times at their conve- nience.
30 Years Ago - Nov. 23, 1994
RANDOLPH – Randolph Public Schools hosted "Positive Air," Nov.
8, west school gym for parents and students.
Positive Air is a team of athletes committed to building up schools and individuals. These team mem bers focused on bringing their experience and knowledge of the inner qualities needed for high performance living and personal excellence.
*** RANDOLPH – Senior Girl Scouts Beth Rogers and Brenda Leiting received their silver pins at Girl Scout Investiture Tuesday, Nov. 15, city auditorium. Presenting the pins were the girls’ mothers, Linda Rogers and Marilyn Leiting.
20 Years Ago - Nov. 24, 2004
RANDOLPH – Randolph High School students presented a One act Play, “Competition Piece” by John S. Well, last Friday night. Some of the students participating in this year’s play include Kari Gubbels, Jessica Pfanstiel, Sara Rohde, Brian Smith, Samantha Wurdinger, Philip Wurdinger and Kalinda Toth.
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RANDOLPH Thanksgiving took on a whole new meaning for the
Guess Who
The trumpet player featured in last week’s Guess Who has been identified as Kim Riedmiller with the photo possibly dating back to 1999 or 2000.
Kim’s mother, Lynn, identified her as well as Nick Gubbels who also played trumpet in the high school band during that time. This picture came from a box of old, unidenti- fied photos, so the Times asks readers for their best guess.
Dan and Nita Meyer farm over 150 acres of land near here. Harvest season is a very busy time for them, as it is for most trying to beat the de- manding deadlines all farmers face.
This year, though, the family found they had another deadline to add onto the others as Dan found himself faced with a scheduled date for surgery. Dan who was suering from not only a ruptured disk in his back, but also from a broken fusion which he had repaired during a surgery that took place in 1991, would be unable to function without the surgery. He also could cause more damage by not having the operation done as soon as possible, and found it near impos- sible to cope with the pain alone. All of these factors made waiting until after harvest to have the surgery impossible. Nita called a neighbor, asking for help, after his own harvest was com- pleted. Not only did that neighbor, and his cousin show up two days later with equipment to help, but in the course of two or three days somewhere around 23 dierent men, four businesses, and assorted family members showed up to help.
10 Years Ago - Nov. 26, 2014
RANDOLPH – Randolph Elementary School was honored as one of the nation's best last week.
The school received the Blue Ribbon Award for excellence in education Nov. 18, for its test scores on the Nebraska State Accountabil - ity (NeSA) tests for the 2012-2013 school year.
“What an adventure, who would believe that we would be here today,” said Randolph Elementary School Principal Mary Miller. "You kids re -
ally rocked the test."
Randolph is one of just four
schools in the state of Nebraska to receive the award this year. Other schools are: Seedling Mile Elemen - tary, Grand Island; Carriage Hill Elementary, Papillion/LaVista; and Jordan-Brock Elementary Schools.
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RANDOLPH R.O.A.R. will once again be sponsoring the Holiday Tour of Homes in Randolph.
The event, which has been held every other year for several years, is scheduled for Nov. 29, from 1 p.m. Tickets are $7 per person and will be available for purchase at the Randolph City Auditorium the day of the event.
This year's tour includes five homes to visit, including the resi- dences of Mark and Marcia Gubbels, Ben and Jean Gall, Warren and Debbie Brunssen, Derek and Kalynda Kuhl, and Neil and Carolyn Lackas.
