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LEMUR TWINS BORN AT
DAVID TRAYLOR ZOO
S O C I E T Y
By Bobbi Mlynar
Special to the Gazette
Editor’s Note: This is the last
in a five-part series of articles
about the former College of Emporia, a private Presbyterian
institution that operated here
from 1883 through 1973. Alumni
are in Emporia this weekend for
their annual reunion, related
tours and activities.
Although the College of Emporia closed almost 43 years
ago, the seeds of relationships
planted decades ago continue to
bloom among members of the C.
of E. Alumni Association and its
friends.
Reunion activities for the
group began the evening of Friday, July 1, and will continue
through the weekend. The basement of the former Kenyon Hall,
now Kenyon Heights Apartments, is serving as a central
hub for those who attend.
The association’s 28-member board of directors met Friday morning, with many traveling in from across the country.
The reunion agenda is packed
with activities — a pre-event
golf tournament Friday morning; a pizza to re-create the atmosphere of Pete’s Parlor, which
had been a popular gathering
place for eating and dancing
when the college was open; a
tour of the campus; a bus tour
of Emporia guided by local historian Roger Heineken; catered
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A pair of ring-tailed lemurs were born April 8 at the David Traylor
Zoo. The births were the first of a lemur species at the zoo.
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meals at the Granada Theatre; a
business meeting with introduction of scholarship winners; and
more.
“It’s amazing we have 200
people that are coming back,
that are registered for the reunion,” said C. of E. alumna
Maxine Mitchell, who graduated in 1954. “Even those from
all over the country that came
and were here just a few years
feel some kind of a kinship that
keeps them coming back.”
Through the reunions, newsletters and scholarships, the
alumni have found ways to keep
the College of Emporia heritage
alive, not only for themselves
but for others.
Long-time Emporia teacher
Sharon Spencer Stewart said
those involved in sports — especially football and basketball
— “really did feel a closeness to
each other and have stayed in
touch.
“And when you read some of
the things they’ve written, it is
important to them to get together,” Stewart said.
Another Emporia district
teacher, Clarence Howland, who
came to C. of E. from Troy said
relationships may have been
strengthened because students
stayed on-campus most of the
school year.
“We were there for a semester; you know, we went home
at Christmas,” Howland said.
“Today, they’ve got cars, they’ve
got money, they go home for the
weekend. So you don’t have the
closeness you had in the ‘50s.”
The size of the college also
was a factor.
“We were just a little small
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The David Traylor Zoo of Emporia is excited to announce the
birth of ring-tailed lemur twins.
The pair were born on April 8
and have been carefully monitored
for the past 13 weeks. Nova, age 4,
and Oscar, age 3, are very attentive parents that have done a fantastic job rearing the twins thus
far. The twins are beginning to
venture away from Mom for short
periods of time, nibbling on solid
foods and testing out their jumping ability from tree to tree.
The births come as part of the
ring-tailed lemur Species Survival
Plan (SSP), which is cooperative,
inter-zoo program coordinated
nationally through the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. The
David Traylor Zoo is an active
participant in this program. SSPs
are designed to maintain genetically diverse and demographically stable captive populations
of species.
Ring-tailed lemurs are an
endangered species native to
Madagascar. This island off the
southeast coast of Africa, is the
sole home of lemurs in the wild.
Habitat destruction is the biggest
threat to the survival of all lemur
species.
Lemurs have been exhibited at
the David Traylor Zoo since 1990,
but this is the first birth of a lemur
species at the zoo. Ring-tailed
lemurs are noted for their wideround eyes and their white and
black, long-banded tails.
Ring-tailed lemurs are unusual in that they are active during
the day. They inhabit dry brush,
scrublands and closed canopy forests of Madagascar.
The zoo invites the public to
the grand opening of Mission
Madagascar at 10:30 a.m. July
23, to celebrate the completion
of the new exhibit and to welcome the twins.
For questions, contact Zoo Director Lisa Keith at 341-4365 or
[email protected].
CLEANUP UNDERWAY AFTER TWO TWISTERS TOUCH DOWN
By Tammy Seimears
The Madison News
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An EF3 tornado that touched down northwest of Eureka
Thursday night completely leveled a farmhouse at 220th Avenue
and H Road. It was one of two twisters reported in and near
Eureka Thursday night.
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As daylight dawned Friday
morning, emergency crews and
residents were able to begin to
assess the damage after two tornadoes passed through Greenwood County overnight that
caused major destruction and
took the power out to more than
2,500 residents.
A twister that has been classified by the National Weather
Service as an EF3, with winds between 136 - 165 miles per hour,
destroyed a farmhouse near
220th Avenue and H Road, northwest of Eureka, completely leveling it, with only the hardwood
floors left exposed. A path of
trees and flattened crops aimed
straight at Eureka could be clearl