July 27, 2017

Captured on Film #126

Captured on Film galleries feature Southeast Missourian photographs taken mainly in the 1960s through the 1990s, before the age of digital photography. Comments or questions about these images should be directed to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.

Published Feb. 26, 1982. Eight Cape Girardeau residents have traded what they do every day for a few days behind the footlights at Rose Theater on the SEMO State University campus as part of the 21-member cast of the musical, "Working." Shown here from the left are Ellen Seyer, whose waitress tray is loaded with an order; Dr. James Palen, who portrays an executive; John Martin, cast in the role of a retired man; Donna Propst, dressed here in her millworker's costume; and Czeslaw Zielinski, who is cast in the vignettes as a welder, stonemason and sailor. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Oct. 23, 1992. The Cape Girardeau Jaycees donated $250 of their proceeds from the concessions sold during the 1992 Air Show to the Composite Squadron Civil Air Patrol. At the presentation were from left Capt. Fred Brown, air patrol commander; 2nd Lt. David Hente, air patrol finance officer and Scott McClanahan, Jaycees air show concession committee chairman. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Oct. 27, 1992. Thad Bullock, Democratic candidate for U.S. Representative in the Missouri 8th District, spoke at a political forum in Jackson. The Cape County Farm Bureau sponsored the event for candidates in three political races in the area. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Aug. 30, 1992. Whitney Rueseler of Cape Girardeau, left, and Glenora Birk of Jackson met U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson and U.S. Sen. Kit Bond during Emerson’s “old-fashioned” campaign kick-off picnic that featured fish, fires, fried green tomatoes and politicians. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published July 31, 1987. Stanley A. Grimm of Cape Girardeau was sworn in this morning as Missouri's newest Court of Appeals Judge by Missouri Supreme Court Justice William H. Billings, left, Grimm's wife, Jane, looks on during the ceremony held at the Cape Girardeau Courthouse Park. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Oct. 8, 1992. Reading can take a person to far-away places. One place where it happened in a big way was in Theresa Burke’s first-grade classroom at May Greene Elementary School. Here she listed to one of her students, James Fowler, read a story. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Aug. 28, 1992. James P. Limbaugh, center, general chairman for Southeast Missouri State University's capital campaign, announced that the plan had exceeded its goals. At left is Judith R. Wilferth, university foundation chair, and at right is university president Kala Stroup. (Southeast Missourian archive)

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Captured on Film galleries feature Southeast Missourian photographs taken mainly in the 1960s through the 1990s, before the age of digital photography. Comments or questions about these images should be directed to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.

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