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Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette.

30 years ago

MUNISING — A record 168 participants played in the Scott Cromell Memorial Golf Tournament June at the Pictured Rocks Golf and Country Club. Friends and family who shared his love of golf originated the tournament in 1989 following Cromell’s death from leukemia. Funds for scholarships are raised through entry fees, donations, and drawings. Graduates receiving $1,000 scholarships this year were Glenda Bowerman, Mike Guizzetti, Karla Heyrman, Steve Prunick, Joey Lynn Sayen, Tar VanLandschoot, and Fred Young from Munising High School and Chad Wester from Marquette Senior High School. Tournament prizes were awarded for low gross and low net scores. Winners in the low gross event were John Dore, Bob Pawelski, and Chad Wester. The team of Gene Niemi, Leo Niemi, and Peter Niemi won the low net prize. Golfers had a chance to win a new car or truck on hole 4 by shooting a hole-in-one. Vehicles were donated by Bero Motors of Escanaba and Choice Motors of Marquette. There was no lucky golfer this year, but John Dore received a $150 watch for placing his shot closest to the pin.

60 years ago

MUNISING — Miss Johanna Genry, an Alger County teacher for 42 years, has passed out report cards to her pupils for the last time. Next year she will have the title of elementary supervising principal of Munising public schools, with an office in the new Munising Central Elementary School. Her first year of teaching was spent at Indiantown, a one-time settlement near Munising, then she was at Washington School here for a year and at Lincoln School for two years. The balance of her teaching career was at the William G. Mather School. Miss Genry has taught many second-generation students during her long service to the youngsters of this community. In fact, six pupils in her first-grade class this year were children whose parents she also had taught in the first grade. Her long career in Alger County was called a “record not equaled by man” by Public School Superintendent William MacNeil.

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