FOUR TOREADOR TEAMS HAVE QUALIFIED FOR STATE
Another Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union state basketball tournament is winding down so it seems like a logical time to visit Boone High School's girls basketball history.
Through the years, four Toreador teams have qualified for play in the girls state tourney.
In 1958, a squad coached by Ralph Carroll, lost a first round state tourney game to Twin Rivers, Bode, 56-44. That was the first BHS girls basketball team to ever qualify for state.
Members of that tournament squad were top scorers, Rita Howard and Joyce Alsin, along with Karen Mustapha, Barbara Wilhelm, Sue Peterson, Connie Ablett, Etta Mae Grady, Delores Deal, Marilyn Smith, Karen Dutton, Barb Fetzer and Sharon Jones.
Thirty-one years later, in 1989, a second Toreador team qualified.
Still in six-on-six play, Coach Dennis Etringer guided the 1989 Boone team to state where they won what has become the only victory a BHS team has ever enjoyed in state girls competition.
The Toreadors opened with a victory over St. Ansgar, 59-58, but then lost to Atlantic, 78-63.
Squad members in 1989 were Laura Keough, Keri Sifrit, Shelley Finnestad, Laura Novotny, Jennifer Kollbaum, Angie Pietz, Michelle Grow, Wendy Wulkow, Teresa Grider, Angie Johnson, Deanna Poore, Teresa Mackey, Christina Brekke and Sue Lawson.
Again, it took awhile, but 28 years later, in 2017, a Boone team qualified for the state tourney. In class 3-A, now in the five player format, the Toreadors lost a first round game to Marion, 46-38.
Team members were Madlyn Danner, Caitlynne Shadle, Ashley Behrendt, Emma Rouse, Aliyah Graham, Lauren Calkins, Morganne Borsh, Laura Anderson, Allison Swanson, Claire Sandvig and Megan Osborn.
Some of those 2017 squad members were still on board as their team again qualified for state in 2018. That unit dropped a first round decision to Center Point-Urbana, 69-47.
Members of that team were Danner, Shadle, Behrendt, Graham, Calkins, Sandvig and Osborn along with newcomers, Emily Ades, Emma Dighton, Zoey Hightshoe, Lillian Lyons and Samantha Needham.
Jim McPartland coached both the 2017 and 2018 state tourney entrants.
Because of their achievements, its obvious that two of the greatest former Toreadors were guards in the six-on-six game. Both Connie Ablett, 1957 and 58, and Jackie Parrish, 1962 and 63, were two-time all-staters.
Emma Dighton, an outstanding athlete in both basketball and softball, and in her just completed senior year, scored 1,198 points in her four-year career which is the best ever BHS mark in five-on-five play. That certainly is to be praised and should not be detracted in any way.
However, it should be termed as a separate achievement, a five-on-five all-time school record.
Before the three-point shot came into play and in the "older" six-on-six play, there should be a separate recognition. Those who played, at that time, should be recognized as well.......and there were many of those players, forwards especially, to consider.
The Kornerman recalls the high scoring exploits of Bonnie Reid, Marsha Lilly, Terri Carlson, Carol Grabau, Mary Courter, Sandy Hall, Sharon Jones, the Grabau and Wilhelm girls, Sandy Craun, Lynda Johnson, Cindy Larson, Sue Beckwith and others who, unfortunately, don't come to mind. Its a certainty that one of them also had over 1,000 career points and could have set an all-time school six-on-six record.
I, the Kornerman confess that, at one time, I had all those girls scoring totals figured and in my possession BUT they have all disappeared as time has passed.
So congratulations to the all-time Boone High School six-on-six career scoring leader (?) as well as Emma Dighton, the Boone High School five-on-five career scoring leader.
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REVIEWING RECENT HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETING
The latest board meeting of the Boone County Historical Society is 10 pages long. So, in perusing this information, the Kornerman will try to pare it down to things the general public would find most interesting and enlightening.
A highlight of each year, the annual membership meeting, is set for Tuesday, May 11, at 6:30 p.m. at the Herman Park pavilion. At that time, there will be voting on revisions to the by-laws, the sale of the Mamie Eisenhower Birthplace to the Mamie Eisenhower Birthplace Foundation and the election of new board members.
A longstanding but major item of discussion was the transfer of the Eisenhower Birthplace. Due to settlement of the lawsuit with former Director Mara Mackay, that transfer can now move forward. The Foundation will establish a five-member Board of Directors, pay an attorney to draw up the transfer papers, set up by-laws and assign tasks to the newly-elected Foundation Board Members. From the transfer date forward, the Society will no longer be responsible for paying the birthplace bills.
Here are some other items randomly selected from the board minutes.
(1) An effort is being made to improve/enhance the History Center Wall, which includes plaques honoring museum benefactors. A better location for the wall is also being discussed.
(2) The Society is facing many needed repairs, refinishing of floors, a required elevator update, electrical work and restoration of a rest room and the sign in front of the center. And, most of these projects must be done to satisfy some grants that were received.
(3) A question was asked about the possibility of securing city/county funds. City money available has already been received and no additional money is anticipated until the city fully pays off a bill incurred via their requested State of Iowa audit. Now that the lawsuit is over, the county will be approached about funds they were promised once the lawsuit was settled.
(4) Donated items are still being accepted. Most recently, several pallets of old Boone News Republican newspapers, the actual newspapers, were received. Unfortunately, it would be expensive for the Society to keep them in good storage condition. Anyone interested in obtaining the newspapers should contact the Society. By the way, all issues prior to 2007 are on microfilm and the Society hopes to obtain digital copies of the newspapers from the BNR from 2007 issues forward.
(5) It was reported that the Society has 216 memberships, 23 of which are new members and, of those 23, 15 are businesses/organizations, four are family memberships and four are individual memberships. Ninety of the 216 members are lifetime members and 126 are renewals.
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Our Ozarks correspondent, Vern Modeland, BHS-50, wrote about that 1959 snowstorm that forced girls state tournament fans to remain all night in Veterans Memorial Auditorium. He wrote, "Boy, do I remember that night. I was out in that storm, plowing about for news for good old WHO and stopped by the auditorium, at News Director and Boone native Jack Shelley's direction. I managed to get a great picture of a high school cheerleader in her pleated skirt and bobby socks curled up in a deserted fan section seat trying to sleep, hugging a mascot teddy bear as big as she was. UPI (International Press Association) picked it up and it played all across the country."
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BOONE CONNECTED DEATHS: Ellen Jensen, 81, Boone........Terry Lynn McGinnis, 69, Boone........Richard Jordan, 97, Boone. Born in Boone. BHS-41. Attended Creighton University, served in the U.S. Navy and earned his law degree at the State University of Iowa. Married Kate Pepper in 1950 and the couple lived on a farm east of Boone the rest of their lives. Dick was a Boone lawyer from 1950 to 2018 and was very active in the community for over 40 years. Survivors include a daughter and three sons, including John Jordan of Boone.........Harry Sechrest, 72, Ogden. Grew up in Texas. Air Force vet. Worked for Dow Chemical in Texas. Married Elizabeth Jo Lawler in 1973 and the couple moved to Ogden to be closer to family. Survivors include his wife, Betty, of Ogden, two sons, including Ben of Ogden, a daughter, brother-in-law, nieces, an uncle and aunts and his step-mother..........Bruce Schuller, 74, Boone. Married Wanda Johnson in 1969. Farmed and then worked for Best Equipment Sales and at ISU at the Vet Diagnostic Lab. Army vet and a proud member of the Patriot Guard. Survivors include his wife, Wanda of Boone, a son and two daughters, a sister, brother and brother-in-law.........Sandi Kay Rose, 76, Boone. BSH-62. Married Tom Rose in 1967. Worked at ISU and as a bookkeeper for Rose Construction. Survivors include her husband, Tom, of Boone, a daughter, Kelli Brown, sons, Ryan and Cory, a sister and a brother, John Roberts Jr. of Boone..........Jordan (Cupcake) Hibbs, 27, Perry. Worked at the Brickhouse Bakery in Adel. Survivors include his mother, Kayla Hibbs, brother Shelby Hibbs of Boone, an uncle and his grandparents, Roger and Betty Reynoldson........Mark Gerstein, 59, Ames. Born in Boone to Bernard and Clarice Gerstein. Ames High School-80. Was an avid outdoorsman. Survivors include three daughters and their mother, his father, Bernard, a sister, two brothers and a sister-in-law..........Martha (Marrie) Williams, 83, Ames. Came to Iowa in 1964 and lived most of the rest of her life on a small acreage south of Ames. Worked at ISU for over 25 years, retiring in 2006. She ask that memorial donations be given to the Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad.
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