Looking Back – March 4

Columbus High School gymnastics coach John Hinds, right, presented Harry McCawley, sports editor at The Republic, the Indiana High School Gymnastics Coaches Association's award for outstanding reporting of high school gymnastics in 1971.  From The Republic archives

2011

International School of Columbus, the city’s first public charter school, was approved to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program.

1996

A group of teachers, parents and administrators attended a regular meeting of Bartholomew Consolidated School Board to show their support for implementing a year-round calendar at Fodrea Community School, the second city school to do so.

1971

Citing “unoriginality” and “sentiment,” Columbus High School students circulated petitions protesting the names selected for the proposed new high school and the current high school.