Looking Back – June 4

Jacob Waddle and other students signed yearbooks on the last day of classes at Central Middle School in 2009.

2009

Shares of Columbus-based Irwin Financial Corp. fell to 97 cents, the first time in company history shares ended a trading day below $1.

1994

A bomb threat caused the evacuation of nearly 1,600 students and staff from Jennings County High School for about an hour while police officers searched lockers and outside the building. No bomb was found.

1969

Teachers in Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. voted by a six-to-one margin to accept a salary schedule that increased the pay of beginning teachers by $338, and that of teachers with a master’s degree and 17 years of experience by $901.