Yesterdays

75 years ago

(1934)

Miss Ida Camp, Mrs. Guy Farris, Mrs. T.L. Cranford, Mrs. W.D. Cole, Miss Vivian Hill, Mrs. R.A. Compton, Mrs. H.A. Daughtery, Mrs. W.A. Welch and Mrs. Bruce C. Benedict were hostesses to their missionary circles at the Methodist Church for their regular meetings Monday. Each hostess reported Bible lessons and programs, followed by social hours with light refreshments served.

Ending its first year with both earnings and deposits considerably in excess of expectations of its founders, the First National Bank of Conway announced a 3 percent dividend.

50 years ago

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(1959)

"Blue Memories" was the theme of the Junior-Senior prom held at the Conway High School gymnasium. The room was decorated like an outdoor garden. Ivy, Japanese lanterns and a flower-covered trellis added to the effect. The Tophatters dance band from Arkansas State Teachers College provided music. A song and dance program was given at intermission by Shirley Nutter and Judy Montgomery. A trio of Billy Lou Mabry, Frances Naylor and Tommy Sue Cardin sang. The program concluded with the reading of the senior will and prophesy.

25 years ago

(1984)

In a special meeting, the Conway School District's Board of Education voted to pay $92,500 for 10 acres for a future elementary school Superintendent Carl Stuart said the new site would be ideal for the district's sixth elementary school. The district had last purchased property for a new school in September 1976, when it paid $48,000 for 12.5 acres south of Highway 64. That came to about $3,840 per acre. Florence Mattison Elementary School, that opened in August 1981, was built on that site.

Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd Guerin returned from Hawaii, where he was a delegate to the 87th Congress of the American Optometric Association. The congress was held on the islands of Oahu and Maui.

10 years ago

(1999)

The Log Cabin Democrat published a list of 10 most influential people in Faulkner County's history. The list of 10 was compiled in a poll of Conway citizens. Dr. John Hugh Reynolds directed the maturity of Hendrix College from 1913 to 1945. Associated with the college since 1890 when it moved from Altus, the Faulkner County native developed a high-quality faculty of long tenure, opened the first modern men's dormitory, and was successful in raising money form outside Conway. Reynolds, a University of Chicago graduate and former acting president of the University of Arkansas, directed the merger of Henderson-Brown and Galloway colleges with Hendrix and kept the institution in Conway, all during the Depression.

Allen Frost of Conway High School was elected attorney general for the 1999 American Legion Boys State conference.