Howard “Tony” Immel, long-time Iola attorney, was named the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award during the annual luncheon of the University of Kansas School of Law Thursday.
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Three Iola residents, Mary Ann Dvorachek, her daughter, Dorothy, and Jennifer Setter, won awards from the University Press of Kansas at Lawrence in an essay contest titled “What Kansas Means to Me.” Dvorachek tied for first place in the adult category and will receive $125 and $50 worth of books. Dorothy Dvorachek and Setter, both 17, shared youth category honors.
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Don Bain has retired as superintendent of USD 257 schools. Bain recalled that he got his wings as a fighter pilot just as the Korean War ended and was assigned to teach pilots to fly the B-24 bomber instead of flying a F-86 jet fighter over Korea. His teaching assignment persuaded him to leave the Air Force and become a teacher. He started at Iola High School teaching mathematics and science and also serving as an assistant football coach. He moved into basketball coaching and then became assistant high school principal, then principal and, 12 years later, replaced Ennor Horine, who retired, as superintendent, a job he has held for 17 years.
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The merger of the Ralph Moser and Woodworth-Beshore Insurance agencies was physically completed with the moving of Moser Agency furniture, equipment and documents to the Woodworth-Beshore building at 204 S. State.
Shown moving the desk are Don Bauer, owner of the Moser Agency, and Galen Beshore.
