Stories from Thursday, June 7, 2012

The Indiana Broadcasters Association (IBA) has announced $30,000 in scholarships to current high school students who will be attending Indiana colleges and universities and majoring in telecommunications, electronic media or broadcast journalism along with current college and university students enrolled at Indiana schools and majoring in these fields...

INDIANAPOLIS --As the 2011-2012 school year has come to a close, the Kelley School of Business Indianapolis honored its scholarship and award recipients at a breakfast at University Place Hotel. A total of 77 students were recognized this year. Nathan Welty, a native of Fillmore, is among those recipients. Welty received the Kelley Indianapolis Faculty Undergraduate Scholarship, an endowment created by contributions from faculty to recognize a student currently in the Kelley Honors Program...

Fourth Quarter All A Honor Roll Grade 2: Jacob Beadles, Bayll Clampitt, Catherine Hodge, Sarah Jones, William Lorimer, Ryan Lynch, Chloe Pistelli, Avery H. Stockwell, MaCayla Stonebraker, Derek L. Taylor, Lilly Vittetow and Lilliam E. Wiegand Grade 3: Dartagnan Neudeck and Evan James Steffy...

Second Semester Sixth Grade A: Tiffany Lynn Collisi, Taylor Lynn Dixon, Jacinda Dawne Garver, Nicholas Keith Goode, Rachel Diane Hamilton, Jacy Elizabeth Holtze, Nickholas Lewis Jones-Landwer, Alex Brian Krominaker, Alanna Andrea Nunez, Annie Elizabeth Peabody, Kamaria Dalenna Phillips, Brooklyn Paige Probst, Lillian May Rambis, Mia Michelle Runnells, Abigail Bryn Spencer, Lucy Jane Springmeyer, Cooper Ray Strasburger, Chevelle Leihua-Olani Tallman, Tyler Dean Thompson, Tyrzah Warrick and Sierra Michelle Witty. ...

Fourth Nine Weeks High Honor Roll: DeShanta Allen, Sarah Baker, Ray Bates, Gayle Baugh, Lauren Branneman, Madison Burton, Devin Cashion, Jacob Hamilton, Olivia Johnson, Maci Jones, Blake Meek, Kamrie Monnett, Shelby Nees, Kacey Shedron, Adam Stattner, MacKenzie Stoltz, Kassie Wade and Jonathan Wagoner...

Presale tickets for Saturday's IHSAA State Softball Final are now available at South Putnam High School Tickets are available from 7-11:30 a.m. and 12:30-3 p.m. today at Friday. Tickets will also be on sale from 5-6 p.m. at the softball field before Friday's pep rally...

South Putnam pitcher Brooke Boetjer has been named the 2012 Gatorade Indiana Softball Player of the Year. The honor comes as the senior and the rest of the Eagles stand on the brink of the ISHAA State Championship game this Saturday. The Gatorade Player of the Year is based on three aspects: athletic achievement, academic excellence and exemplary character. ...

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work. -- Vince Lombardi Lombardi's quote might belong in the world of football, but it fits perfectly when describing the South Putnam softball team. When looking at the Eagles on paper, it's easy to point out an extensive list of outstanding athletes. But if they didn't fight as one in every contest, they could very well be one in a long list of teams that have failed to live up to expectations...

Auditions for the Hendricks Civic Theatre summer play "Little Women" will be held June 9 and 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Longstreet Playhouse. Callbacks will be Sunday evening. Show dates are Aug. 3-5 and 10-12. The play is an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel and is directed by Tara Carson...

The North Putnam FFA Livestock Judging teams recently finished a successful year. Team 1, with members Grant Colvin, Jordan Hays, Lauren Johnston and Sierra Graham, qualified for the state competition, finishing in the top 20 at the May 19 event at Purdue University...

BAINBRIDGE -- In small-town Indiana, the council can only do so much. For things to stay in top shape, it takes at dedicated group of individuals. The Bainbridge Improvement Society spreads its efforts in a variety of directions and Friday it will host a Jonah Fish Fry to help raise money and keep the improvements coming...

Rajesh Bellani has been appointed to the new position of dean of experiential learning and career planning at DePauw University. Bellani comes to DePauw from the Rhode Island Institute for Design (RISD), where he served as associate provost and dean of students and special assistant for international initiatives...

Six young girls from Fillmore are reaching out to the community to try to help orphans all over the world by providing them new shoes. The girls, along with Elaine Huether, who takes care of the children before and after school, are always looking for new ways to help others...

BAINBRIDGE -- Father's Day will be stretched to a full weekend in Putnam County this year. Man Up, a camping, fishing, father/son, man-to-man bonding event and fundraiser, will be held at the Baker's Camp Covered Bridge beginning Friday, June 15 after 3 p.m...

Edsel Sparks, 54, Greencastle, passed on Wednesday, June 6, 2012. He died with his family around him at his Van Bibber Lake home following a long battle with cancer. He was born on May 30, 1958 in Indianapolis, the son of Elbert Leroy and Delores May (Acton) Sparks...

F. Elizabeth (Secrest) Lairmore, 85, joined the Lord in peace with her family by her side, Wednesday, June 6, 2012. She was born Feb. 25, 1927 in Eminence to Ralph and Gusta (Wallace) Secrest. She was married Dec. 6, 1941 to John P. Lairmore. Elizabeth was preceded in death by her loving husband, parents, brother Freeman and sister Katherine Finchum...