Dick foster historian by experience
During his senior year at Humboldt High, Dick Foster was a janitor at City Hall. Duties included sweeping the city streets on Friday nights. He even hand-dug a couple of graves at Mount Hope Cemetery.
When he graduated in 1953, a full-time job awaited.
He expected to be drafted anytime ? which came four years later. After his two-year obligation, including one in Korea, Dick returned to city employment. Dick worked for the City of Humboldt for 47 years, rising to the rank of superintendent of the water plant.
Bob Johnson – The Iola Register
Bob Johnson has been with the Register since July 1964, including the past few years in a less demanding role. He continues to write his Saturday column at Week’s End, which began in 1972, and occasionally other things. During Bob’s tenure he has written sports, features, general news and editorials. He often has supported his writing with photographs. His institutional knowledge of what occurred in the past is a valuable asset for the Register and its reporters’ mission to tell the story of Iola and Allen County.
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