Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving

     The Korner would like to think not, but this may be a "once in a lifetime" so enjoy it. Especially you proud out-of-towners, get out that Hawkeye, Cyclone, Panther garb and display it proudly for all to see.
     Son Chris who lives in Overland Park, KS says that there are probably an equal number of Hawkeye and Cyclone flags that fly in that area, especially when things are going great like they are now. Daughter Jody is searching her closet to retrieve some Hawkeye shirts to display in the Parker, CO. area.
     We've never seen anything like it.......Iowa football undefeated and among the top three or four rated teams in the country. Then too, the Iowa State men's basketball team rated among the four or five top teams in the nation and both the ISU and Iowa women's teams also rated in the top 25 in the nation.
      The Panthers? All the Northern Iowa men's basketball team did was defeat the nation's number one rated team, North Carolina, the other day.
      What a magnificent run for all of those Iowa based athletic teams. It's a great time to be a Hawkeye, a Cyclone or a Panther or all three like the Kornerman and many others are.
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     There's been a three-part story in the Des Moines Register in recent days about the 1985 crash of an Iowa State University plane that was returning to Iowa from Milwaukee. The plane, carrying some coaches and runners who had just finished second in the NCAA cross country championships, went down in a Des Moines neighborhood, killing the occupants of that plane, two coaches, a trainer and three runners.
     Two other planes returned the remainder of the party safely and one of those runners who survived was Tami Colby Prescott, BHS-85, who was a freshman member of that team. In the Register story Tami is quoted quite often in recalling that terrible event. She finished 32nd, individually, in the NCAA meet after winning numerous honors as a Toreador runner during her high school days.
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     Congratulations to Jason Blomgren, BHS-92, who has been recognized with the Four Under Forty award by the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors-Iowa. Each year, NAIFA-Iowa selects four well-rounded professionals who excel in their field while giving back to the industry and their community.
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     Boone Connected Deaths: Roger Zunkel, Ogden, 77...........Everett Derry, 99, Bayard. Two of his surviving sons are Michael Derry of Boone and Lanny Derry of Woodward.
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