75 Years Ago-January 20, 1949
Houlton High Bowling League in Three Way Tie – After the first two weeks of bowling at the Houlton High, the ring tailed Snoggers pace the Junior-Senior league and the Indians, Lucky Strike and Shiftless Seven are all tied for top spot in the Frosh-Soph League. In the girls circuit the Strikers are in the sunberth. Leland Bither rolled the high three for the week, bowling 273, and also took top honors for one string with a score of 109. Amy Lou Tompkins bowled the top three of the week for the girls, chalking up a total of 251. She also tied with Delores Carpenter for high single with a 95.
50 Years Ago-January 16, 1974
Dr. Boyne Will Be Dean Of Texas Dental School – Dr. Philip J. Boyne, a 1942 graduate of Houlton High School, will be the new dean of the University of Texas Dental School at San Antonio, effective this spring. Dr. Boyne is presently an administrator at the University of California School of Dentistry at Los Angeles. He has been assistant dean of hospital and clinical affairs of the UCLA dental school since 1971, and is also professor and chairman of oral surgery and professor of oral surgery UCLA Medical School.
Murphy Takes Recovery Course At Army School – Private Stanley H. Murphy, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. John O. Fleming of HOulton, has completed a seven-week recovery and evacuation specialist course at the U.S. Army Ordnance Center and School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. He learned to perform recovery and evacuation operations for abandoned, damaged, disabled and mired vehicles. He also was taught to operate light and medium track recovery vehicles, wrecker trucks and tank transporters.
25 Years Ago-February 3, 1999
Quint named the area’s top farmer – A Hodgdon resident was recently chosen as farmer of the year by the Southern Aroostook Soil and Water Conservation District. At their 1999 awards banquet, held Jan. 25, the Southern Aroostook Soil and Water Conservation District presented Thomas Quint, a Hodgdon Dairy farmer, with the Outstanding Conservation Farmer of the Year award. Quint was chosen as the farmer of the year because of “his commitment to the implementation of environmental excellence in his farming” according to Andrea Newman, office manager for the Southern Aroostook Soil and Water Conservation District.
Father and son duo may be first to make Houlton school history – Other than the similarity of records (16-0) and the possibility of another Shiretown basketball team achieving an undefeated record, an additional thread weaves its way through this correlation between the 1972 squad and this year’s Houlton team. Albro (Al) Cowperthwaite, Jr. and his son, Jacob, are the first father and son duo to both play on a Houlton team that is 16-0. With two games left on the Shiretowners regular season, Jacob could also share with his father the distinction of being on an undefeated squad, as well.
