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Totally encompassing Marion Ball Park is a new six foot high chain-link fence. Forty-seven merchants underwrote the cost of the project with three-year advertising contracts. Stenciled masonite signs hang on the 800-foot outfield border in return for $10-per-year advertising donations. The fence was completed May 30.
Troy Schmidt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schmidt, celebrated his 8th birthday May 27 with a party at his home. Those present were Tim Jirak, David Baliel, Mitch Carlson, Doug Regnier, Debbie Kreutzman, and Troy's brothers, Rodney and Kevin Schmidt.
Jackie Thomas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Thomas, has graduated from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor of Science degree in dental hygiene.
A reunion will be held June 11 at the Aulne Methodist Church for all former students, teachers, families and friends of the former Aulne grade school. There will be a basket dinner at noon.
A celebration was held at the Eugene H. Waner home Saturday evening, June 3, to honor the first birthday of Ty Andrew Waner which occurred Thursday, June 1st.
Mrs. Robert (Jo Ann) Good, a 1972 graduate of Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, has been awarded a graduate fellowship for study in the department of foreign languages.
Four members of Marion High School's state championship track team have qualified for Kansas Junior Olympics championships to be held Saturday in Lawrence. They are Jack Loomis, 100-yard dash, 220, and open quarter; Joey Ragole, pole vault; Don Bredemeier, javelin and discus; and Pat Robinson, javelin.
Ruth Noone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Noone of Marion, was one of two first year students at St. Francis Hospital Radiologic Technology School to win plaques May 5-6 at the Kansas State Radiologic Technologists' convention in Manhattan. Noone won second place in the film division for her production, "Oblique View of the Sternum."
