Looking Back – February 23

2009

Five local educators, Rose Maudlin, Charles Edwards, Larry Perkinson, Shirley Trapp and Raquel Contreras, were honored for making Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. more welcoming for an increasingly diverse student population.

1994

MascoTech Inc., a Michigan-based auto parts supplier, announced it would purchase the former Carpenter Body Works building in North Vernon and hire 300 workers to produce automotive connecting rods.

1969

Photos of contemporary Columbus buildings were used to illustrate a story comparing architecture to fashion in Harper’s Bazaar magazine.