January 28, 2016

Captured on Film #48

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 Oct. 5, 1987. Tom Hinkebein, fire inspector for the Cape Girardeau Fire Department, observed children exiting Washington School during a fire drill, part of National Fire Prevention Week. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Sept. 21, 1986. An unidentified Hawthorn School student was reflected in the mirror of a school bus. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published July 6, 1987. Cheri Sides, a 1987 graduate of Cape Central High School, was the recipient of the Lincoln-John S. Cobb Alumni Scholarship presented during a special award ceremony at Second Baptist Church. The $500 scholarship was presented by Mary Warfield Frederick, a Cobb School graduate and high school teacher in Essex, Missouri. This was the first scholarship awarded since the Cobb School reunions started in 1975. It was hoped that the scholarship would become an annual project. (Joel House ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Nov. 5, 1990. Maggie Kuhn, the founder of the Gray Panther movement, was pictured with Dave Niswonger, the head of Southeast Missouri Hospital. Kuhn was here to keynote a gerontology conference sponsored by the hospital, the Institute of Gerontology, and the College of Health and Human Services at Southeast Missouri State University. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Two unidentified Central HIgh School students juggled at a rehearsal for the Renaissance Feaste, produced by the school's music department, in December 1988. (Mark Sterkel ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Feb. 8, 1989. Alan Ziegler of Kelso, Missouri, a senior at Notre Dame High School, lit the candle which represented service during the school's National Honor Society induction ceremony. Other candles represented character, scholarship and leadership. (Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Oct. 21, 1990. Country music singer Dan Seals opened for the Statler Brothers at the Show Me Center on Oct. 20, 1990. (Mark Sterkel ~ 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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