History often has intertwining elements, Richard Chase told Iola Rotarians on Thursday.
Chase gave a brief history of his life and noted that while he didn’t arrive in Iola as an assistant superintendent of USD 257 schools until 1981, he visited here often as a youngster in the 1930s and 1940s.
Chase was born and raised in Independence, where he excelled in football, basketball and tennis for Independence High and then the town’s junior college. He then earned degrees in education from Ottawa University and Kansas State. That eventually…
Chase follows roots to ultimately land in Iola
