The recent purchase and potential renovation of the Boone News Republican building at 812 Keeler Street has kept a pair of old former occupants of that building awake many recent nights as memories flowed from an initial shock to complete mesmerization. We're still finding new things to laugh and/or cry about.
Richard Longworth and Morris Kelley, both BHS-53, spent lots of time in the earliest part of their media careers in, primarily, the late 50's into the 60's, in that historical building, which was built in 1912.
Today, we'll begin this "trip back in time" to honor all those great people we can think of that were co-workers during those wonderful days. Let's say we're proclaiming this the News Republican Hall of Fame. We fully understand that there may be some "misses." The list is primarily from memory and you know how late '80's human memories can be. Hopefully, if any viewers catch some names we've missed, please let us know. No attempt is being made to list newspaper carriers.
In no particular order, here we go.......
Mary and Harold Garvey, Harlan Weeks, Earl Senholz, Wayne Messerly, Warren (Doc) Routh, Ed Anderson, Walter Curry, Roger Dee, Tom Fleener, Kathy Ferry, Mary Deering, Mary Alice Anderson Niederjohn, Bernard Hohanshelt, Terry Johnson, Irma Hines, Bill Endress, Walt Handy, John Deardorff, R.P. Brown, Rollie Peterson, Dick Lynes, Ed Bomberger, Melvin Howell, Ben Mesenbrink, Grace Berl, Pauline Uthe, Jeannie Eytcheson, Tex Anderson, Buck Huffman, Marv Lestina, Boyd Van Meter, Don Garrett, Herman Ninneman, Virgil Dummett, Peg Hohanshelt, Vivian Wirtz, Tammy Hougham, Lester Hohanshelt, Wayne (AH) Shaw, Harry Quantz, Jack Branscom. Oh yes, there's also Richard Longworth and Mo Kelley.
The plan is to, in future editions, get into the "heart" of our memories. Its our hope that OUR memories will shake up some of your BNR memories, whether they be as staff members or news carriers.
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Its coming! Sometime......probably soon......the Boone News Republican will no longer exist. It still may be delivered each Thursday, at least for a time, but the familiar BOONE News Republican nameplate will be replaced by an AMES Tribune nameplate. In some ways, that's already occurred.
Until a week or two ago, when entering "Boone News Republican" on the internet, we still received access, BNR nameplate and all. However, there's been a change. Try it yourself. Today, I entered Boone News Republican, as usual, but received a Boone News Republican - Nevada Journal - Ames Tribune nameplate which quickly reverted to Ames Tribune. I also entered Business News in Boone and received that same beginning nameplate.
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