From the Files of the Kosciusko County Historical Society

Editor’s note: This is a retrospective article that runs a few times a month on InkFreeNews

Information for this retrospective series is courtesy of the Kosciusko County Historical Society.

June 12, 1978 — The “fond farewell” McKinley Elementary School alumni said to their building in May was premature.

McKinley and Lincoln schools were scheduled to merge and their pupils to attend classes in the enlarged Lincoln building at the start of the coming school year. Because of construction delays, the physical merger will be postponed until October, November or perhaps as late as Christmas.

June 14, 1963 — An interim board has selected “Whitko” as the name for the new metropolitan school corporation that includes Washington, Monroe and Jackson townships in Kosciusko County and Richland and Cleveland townships in Whitley County.

June 1956 — The Wagon Wheel Playhouse will present its first production July 2, marking the opening of a new era in entertainment in the northern Indiana area, Maj. Herbert Petrie, of Warsaw and Winona Lake, said today.

The idea of supplying the people of this area with professional theater during the summer months was conceived by Maj. Petrie as a civic gesture. The Wagon Wheel Playhouse will be on U.S. 30, just east of Warsaw. Excavation and construction now under way will be completed by June 24. Plays will be presented in a large tent, which is adaptable for use in warm weather. It will be equipped with comfortable arm chairs.

Compiled by InkFreeNews reporter Lasca Randels