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30 years ago

MARQUETTE – Retirees are the target of a new effort to get new students on campus at Northern Michigan University. But non-traditional classes await these non-traditional students in the Northern Center for Lifelong Learning. “This is what I’ve been wanting since I moved to Marquette,” said Carol Stockholm, as she surveyed the forest scenery around her during a class walk to the Wetmore Pond Interpretive Nature Trail on Wednesday. “A person isn’t going to do this all by themselves,” she said of the hike near a rock-outcrop above the glacial bog north of Marquette. She and about 20 class members were led by NMU Biology Professor William Robinson, Mead Forester Bob Carpenter, and Dan Hornbogen of the North Country Trail Hikers Club. In future classes, the group is scheduled to visit Rock River Falls and the Laughing Whitefish Preserve.

60 years ago

MUNISING – For the second consecutive year, the Seventh Day Adventist Church of Munising held Opportunity Camp at Clear Lake for Alger County youngsters. Directed by L.C. Caviness, who is secretary of the church’s missionary volunteer department for Michigan, the camp played host to 57 youngsters for a week-long period. Walter Olsen, M.D., Munising, was camp doctor. Miss Helen Genry, Alger County’s public health nurse, also assisted with the program. Putting finishing touches on their wren houses at the Opportunity Camp are Fred Cornish, Kevin Viau, Cathy Denny, Dale Cornish, Sandra Mannisto, Terry Via and Lola Trumble. Another group of youngsters displaying enthusiasm over their work in “tree class” includes Larry Posent, Tony Beauchamp, Darlene Rochefort, Mary Moulds, Shirley Rochefort and Cindy Beauchamp.