The CCHS Alumni Association held its seventh annual golf outing on Homecoming Saturday, September 21, 2013 at Eagle Glen golf course in Columbia City.
Pictured Left to Right: Winners Doug Sauers, Gary Harris, Jeff Wright, CCHSAA President Andrew Thompson, and winner Troy Jagger.
Eighteen different CCHS classes were represented in the tournament as 43 golfers took to the links to help raise funds for the Bob Brittain Memorial Scholarships that are given out each spring to graduating seniors. The golf was followed by food, fellowship, and the tournament trophy presentation.
Tournament results:
1st place: Gary Harris (1973), Troy Jagger (1986), Jeff Wright (1980), & Doug Sauers (1982). Score of 55.
2nd place: Trent Shively (2004), Tyler Shively (2007), Justin Waterson (1999), & Kyle Bauer (2004). Score of 57.
3rd place: Andrew Thompson (1988), Ryan Wood (1980), Rachel Hazelet (2011) & Cameron Deckard (2013). Score of 61.
Closest to Pin # 2: Jeff Wright (1980).
Closest to Pin # 7: Kyle Bauer (2004).
Closest to Pin # 11: Drew Benedict (2013).
No golfers were able to hit the $1,000 shot on hole # 17 sponsored by the CCHS class of !957.
Thanks to all the golfers and Eagle Glen Golf Course for hosting the outing.
Thanks to all of our hole sponsors.
Thanks to Shelly's Eagle Grille for the food.
The “Teddy L. Gruver” Founder’s Trophy is currently on display in the main office at Columbia City High School, 600 North Whitley Street, Columbia City, IN. Winners of this annual event will have their names added to the trophy and a photo of the winning team will be displayed in the CCHS main office.
The eighth annual golf outing will be held on September 27, 2014. The event is more about fun, sportsmanship, and fundraising to benefit current CCHS students and the community than about superior golf skills or winning the golf tournament. It is open to all who love the game, not just CCHS alumni.
All monies raised from sponsorships, donations by patrons & golfers of monetary gifts or prizes will be placed in the Whitley County Community Foundation and used for scholarships.
Pictured, front left to right: Scholarship winners Jackie Leeuw , Emilie Richter, Amelia Roman, Corinne Kauffman and Macie Minier. Back row left to right : Andrew Thompson. CCHSAA President. Marcus Moore. CCHSAA Ambassador. Post & Mail photo by Brett Myers.
The Columbia City High School Alumni Association (CCHSAA) awarded Bob Brittain Memorial scholarships to five CCHS graduating seniors at the Honor Convocation held at CCHS May 20, 2013. Andrew Thompson and Marcus Moore represented CCHSAA at the convocation. The five scholarships were valued at $750.00 each and awarded to Jackie Leeuw, Emilie Richter, Amelia Roman, Corinne Kauffman and Macie Minier.
Kristin Rentschler, Rachelle Patrick, and Andrew Thompson were on the selection committee.
CCHSAA congratulates the recipients and wishes them well in their future endeavors.
From The Post & Mail March 18, 2013:
Leon Braden Alter, 105, of North Manchester, died at 6:30 a.m. Monday, March 18, 2013 at Timbercrest where he had been a resident since 1984.
He was born February 24, 1908 in Forest, Indiana a son of Leander Clinton and Anna Grace (Braden) Alter. He graduated from Forest High School in 1927 and Purdue University in 1933 with a degree in agriculture education.
He began teaching at New Paris High School. In 1937 he began teaching at Columbia City High School, instructing agriculture along with Biology for many years, retiring in 1976. He taught summer Biology for many years after his retirement. He served as FFA leader at CCHS and was a 4-H leader in Whitley County for many years.
On May 28, 1939 he was united in marriage to Helen F. Long. They made their home in Columbia City until moving to Timbercrest in 1984, enjoying their winters in Venice, Florida until 1995. Mrs. Alter died in 1997.
After retirement, Leon stayed active with golf, bowling, swimming, playing pool and shuffleboard.
Surviving relatives include two children, Jim (Phyllis) Alter of Boise, Idaho and Jane (Ron) Yohe of Columbia City; six grandchildren, Clinton Alter of Portland OR, Rachael (C.J.) Johnson of Missoula MT, Lt. Col. Shane (Carol) Sullivan of Denver CO, Jeff (Amy) Sullivan of Carmel IN, Shelley (Brett) Eberly and Mandy (Nick) Hartman, both of Columbia City; and 11 great grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at a later date with burial at West Etna Community Cemetery.
Preferred memorials are to Timbercrest Employee Christmas Bonus Fund or Heartland Hospice of Fort Wayne.
Arrangements are by Smith & Sons Funeral Home, Columbia City.
Pictured Left to right: Winners Ted Wright, Troy Jagger, Andrew Thompson, CCHS Alumni Association President, Gary Harris, & Jeff Wright.
The event is more about fun, sportsmanship, and fundraising to benefit current CCHS students and the community than about superior golf skills or winning the golf tournament. It is open to all who love the game, not just CCHS alumni.
All monies raised from sponsorships, donations by patrons & golfers of monetary gifts or prizes will be placed in the Whitley County Community Foundation and used for scholarships and awards or grants to supplement CCHS curricular or extra curricular activities (student activities, Renaissance program, Eagles In Flight).
This event made possible by hole sponsors with special help from Bobick's Golf, Eagle Glen Golf Course and Espich Printing.
The “Teddy L. Gruver” Founder’s Trophy is currently on display in the main office at Columbia City High School, 600 North Whitley Street, Columbia City, IN. Winners of this fifth annual event will have their names added to the trophy and a photo of the winning team will be displayed in the CCHS main office.
Columbia City, Indiana
Earlier this month publisher Open Books released a paperback edition of Hoosier author Susie Duncan Sexton’s first book, Secrets of an Old Typewriter (ISBN 9781452414003). The prior year, the book was released in a digital edition for all eReaders including Kindle and Nook. To celebrate the paperback release, Sexton will be making several appearances throughout Indiana.
· September 29 – Noon to 4 pm – Sexton will be signing her book at the James Dean Gallery during the James Dean Festival (http://jamesdeangallery.com/)
· October 6 - 2-7 pm - Sexton will participate in South Whitley Cleveland Township Library’s “Souper Stompin’ Saturday” (http://www.swhitley.libguides.com/home)
· October 25 – 10 am – Sexton will be doing a reading at the Churubusco Public Library (http://www.churubusco.net/library.htm)
· November 3 – 5 pm – Sexton will be in the Community Room of Columbia City’s Peabody Public Library for a reading/signing. (http://ppl.lib.in.us/)
Currently, the paperback edition is being carried by the James Dean Gallery in Fairmount, Indiana and Literary Bookpost in Salisbury, North Carolina (http://www.literarybookpost.com/). Autographed copies of the book also will be available for purchase at the Whitley County Historical Museum (http://whitleygov.com/department/?fDD=27-0). The Whitley County Historical Society is planning an author event in the first quarter of 2013.
Secrets of an Old Typewriter is also available to order at www.open-bks.com, www.amazon.com, and www.susieduncansexton.com.
Sexton remarked, “I thought it was exciting to see my writing collected in book form, first digitally and then in paperback, but this response from Indiana, my home state, and North Carolina, the birthplace of my mother, has just been astounding. I feel so gratified and humbled by these opportunities. I look forward to meeting my current and, hopefully, future readers out there!”
Open Books publisher David Ross noted, “As I read a few of Susie’s stories when we started work on this book, I became hooked on the author's unique and out-front perspective on everyday events as well as 'big' issues. Susie Sexton makes no apologies for having been 'around the block' and draws from her experiences over six decades to color in the chiaroscuro of the American Experience….I am now a big fan of Susie Duncan Sexton and hope to see more of her down-to-earth writing in the future.”
Please contact Sexton at
Find out more about Susie Duncan Sexton and her writing at www.susieduncansexton.com
[Photos attached include a candid portrait of the author and the Secrets book cover]
Topics in the book include: small town America, Midwest, classic film, literature, politics, religion, animal rights, animal rescue, vegetarianism, veganism, nostalgia, theatre, Baby Boomers, 1950s/60s, celebrities
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About the Author: Susie Duncan Sexton grew up in Columbia City, Indiana (CCJHS 1964). After graduating twelfth in her class at Ball State University (winning the first ever John R. Emens award for “most outstanding senior”), she returned to Columbia City where she has worked as a teacher, a museum curator, a publicist and a health lecturer.
She currently writes monthly columns Old Type Writer for local blog Talk of the Town and Homeward Angle for the Columbia City Post and Mail newspaper. She has contributed to the literary journal Moronic Ox, and her poetry was selected by Wayne State professor M.L. Liebler to be featured in Poetic Resonance Imaging: Behind the Door. She also has been featured in Writing Raw and InD'tale magazines. Her first book Secrets of an Old Typewriter (ISBN 9781452414003) was released as an ebook by Open Books (www.open-bks.com) in September 2011, and the book has now been issued in paperback (September 2012).
About her work, Sexton remarked, “I willingly share nostalgic trips to the past as I have now achieved such an old age that no one remains who can question the authenticity of my memory of places, people and events that were very much never what they were cracked up to be.... I have searched for the 'We of Me' since toddler days and have always come up wanting, though I trust that in my next life I shall finally have figured out how to make this world a better place full of tolerance and inclusiveness and understanding for all forms of life.
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