Column: Do you remember?

1996

▪ Fort Mill Police Chief Jeff Helms received the Fort Mill Community Optimist Club’s Law Enforcement Award.

▪ Six local high school teams won region championships. At Indian Land, the baseball and softball teams won their region. At Fort Mill, the golf, tennis, soccer and girls’ track teams claimed region titles.

▪ Perfect weather was the order of the day as hundreds of people enjoyed Fort Mill’s Spring Festival, Fest-I-Fun.

▪ After two days of testimony, a jury decided in 15 minutes that a Tega Cay Police Officer was not guilty of driving under the influence.

1976

▪ After 35 years of service, Mrs. Mary Barron McFadden retired from the Fort Mill Post Office.

▪ Fort Mill’s Confederate Park Bandstand was in the process of getting a complete renovation at a cost of $650.

▪ Deborah Osborne became the first Fort Mill High School girls’ basketball player to sign a college scholarship when she signed with North Greenville Junior College.

▪ Mayor Lunsford McFadden declared Saturday, May 15, as “Band Day” in Fort Mill in honor of the Fort Mill High School Marching Band.

1956

▪ Judy Sain, Kay Whitesides, Betty Hucks, Janice Starnes, Joe Ann McDonald, Mary Ann Garrison and Geraldine Blackwelder were chosen as cheerleaders at Fort Mill High School.

▪ Cadets Leonard L. Wilson and Jerry W. Wilson, both of Rt. 2, Fort Mill graduated from the Naval preflight school in Pensacola, Fla.

1936

▪ Miss Lula Moore, popular teacher in Indian Land School, entertained her fellow teachers at the school with a monopoly and bingo party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bailes.

▪ The Parent-Teacher Association of the Grammar school sponsored a beauty pageant for girls 4-16 years old at the school auditorium. Admission was 10 and 25 cents.

1916

▪ John E. Jones, former manager of the Majestic Theatre, left for Whitney, N.C., to take a position in a plant of that city.

▪ At a meeting in the Armory by those interested in starting a brass band in Fort Mill, F.E. Andrey was named band master.

This story was originally published May 8, 2016 at 10:51 PM with the headline "Column: Do you remember?."