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

30 years ago

DRUMMOND ISLAND–A three-day regimen of health food gave way to the food that made Thomas Monoghan rich and famous when the Domino’s Pizza Inc. mogul opened his northern Michigan lodge to the general public. Domino’s Lodge, used mainly as a corporate retreat, hosted 26 women who paid $1,000 each for four days of exercise, relaxation, and pampering earlier this month. The price included a round-trip flight to the retreat off the eastern tip of the Upper Peninsula. Domino’s hired staffers from the Kerr House, a health spa in Grand Rapids, Ohio, to run the program. Artists, teachers, lecturers, and housewives spent a weekend roaming pine-scented woodlands, cross-country skiing, ice-skating, and snowmobiling on the 1,700-acre property. Indoors, they were treated to pedicures, manicures, and facials. The program at first offered a menu of health foods such as carrot soup, falafel, and tofu salad. But it concluded with a make-your-own-pizza night including pepperoni, Italian sausage, peppers, and lots of cheese. Weekends for men and women are planned for July and October.

60 years ago

ISHPEMING–The Very Rev. Msgr. David P. Spelgatti, pastor of St. John’s Catholic Church, has been honored by being named 1959 recipient of the Michigan Knights of Columbus annual Journalism Award. Announcement of the award was made in Saginaw by Joseph J. Mainolfi, state K.C. deputy. Msgr. Spelgatti, who has continued as managing editor of the Northern Edition of Our Sunday Visitor even after becoming pastor of St. John’s, was acclaimed by Mainolfi for “the friendly cooperation that has been extended to the various activities of the Knights of Columbus throughout the area served by the Sunday Visitor.” The award will be presented to Msgr. Spelgatti at the state deputies’ dinner during the annual state Knights of Columbus convention in the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island Friday evening, June 12.