Glancing Backward 3/15/2010

Published: March 15, 2010

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Today is Monday, March 15, the 74th day of 2010. There are 291 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On March 15, 44 B.C., Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius.

Glancing Backward Locally:

25 years ago - 1985

Lisa Berry, daughter of Dale and Lorene Berry of Towanda and a freshman at Bloomsburg University, will be a member of the university band front kick line.

For five area wrestlers - Dave Kennedy of Athens, Paul Keysaw of Athens, Sam Bocchino of Wyalusing, Lew Prough of SRU and Mike Davis of Liberty - just one match stands between them and the opportunity to wrestle for a state wrestling championship.

Winners of a recent fourth grade science fair at J. Andrew Morrow elementary school included Michael Lacek and a team of Jim Lacek and Dan Chernosky in first, Mark Walsh and Jamie Ostravich in second, and Erica Hollenback and Doug Gates in third.

50 years ago - 1960

Harry E. Tuttle of Ulster has joined the sales force of the Prudential Life Insurance Company in this area.

Under the auspices of the Quarterback Club of Towanda Valley High School, the varsity and JV teams of Towanda Valley and St. Agnes high schools and their managers enjoyed the NBA play-off game at Syracuse between the Syracuse Nationals and the Philadelphia Warriors.

David Vann of Wilkes-Barre, a Rotary Fellowship Exchange student who spent a year at Rhodes University in the Union of South Africa, gave the Towanda Rotary Club an account of his experiences in South Africa.

75 years ago - 1935

The Orwell Grange will hold a warm sugar social in March at the grange hall.

R.W. Zimmerman of Philadelphia, a deep-sea diver, will give a talk at Canton which he will illustrate with apparatus which he has used and an unusual collection of specimens recovered from the seas in his experience with the government and with commercial salvage companies.

At En-Joie pavilion in Endicott, Pete Punchello of Sayre lost a three-round decision to Bruce Cleff of Montrose in boxing.

Elsewhere on this date:

In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson met with reporters for what's been described as the first presidential press conference.

In 1919, members of the American Expeditionary Force from World War I convened in Paris for a three-day meeting to found the American Legion.

In 1956, the musical play "My Fair Lady," based on Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," opened on Broadway.

Ten years ago: Their presidential nominations secured, Al Gore and George W. Bush dug in for the eight-month battle to Election Day, with Bush saying he was braced for Gore's "politics of personal destruction and distortions," and Gore arguing that Bush's "risky tax scheme" would hurt the economy. TV funnyman Durward Kirby died in Fort Myers, Fla; he was in his late 80s.

Five years ago: Former WorldCom chief Bernard Ebbers was convicted in New York of engineering the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history. (He was later sentenced to 25 years in prison.)

One year ago: A chorus of outrage greeted news that some $165 million in executive bonuses were being paid by bailed-out insurance giant American International Group. The space shuttle Discovery was launched on a mission to the international space station that had been delayed five times. Mauricio Funes won El Salvador's presidential election.

Today's Birthdays: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 77. Actor Judd Hirsch is 75. Rock singer Dee Snider (Twisted Sister) is 55. Model Fabio is 49. Rock singer Bret Michaels (Poison) is 47. Rock singer Mark McGrath (Sugar Ray) is 42. Rock musician Mark Hoppus is 38.

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