Stories from Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Dec. 9, 1956--Jan. 21, 2011 HOLDREGE, Nebraska -- Douglas Wayne Tidyman, 54, passed away on Tuesday (Jan. 18, 2011), at the Phelps Memorial Health Center in Holdrege. Funeral services for Douglas W. Tidyman will be conducted from the First United Methodist Church in Holdrege on Friday, 2 p.m., with the Rev. Dale Lambert officiating. Interment will be in the Prairie Home Cemetery in Holdrege...

Oct. 17, 1928--Dec. 11, 2010 OBERLIN, Kansas -- Marie Jean (Hickert) Vavroch, 82, died Dec. 11, 2010 in Oberlin. She was born Oct. 17, 1928, in Jennings, Kansas. She was a homemaker and former teacher. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charley; parents, Henry and Theresa (Robben) Hickert; and two brothers, Marcellus and Norman Hickert...

June 3, 1952--Jan. 17, 2011 HERNDON, Kansas -- Jean Ann Leitner, 58, died Monday (Jan. 17, 2011), at Hays Medical Center in Hays, Kansas. She was born June 3, 1952, in McCook, Nebraska, to Charles and Virginia (Grafel) Portschy. She was raised in Herndon. She graduated from Herndon High School in 1970 and Fort Hays State University in 1974...

March 13, 1934--Jan 18, 2011 GOODLAND, Kansas -- Jeanette Sulzman, 76, died Tuesday (Jan. 18, 2011), in Goodland. She was born March 13, 1934, in Sheridan County, Kansas, to William and Betty (Zodrow) Sulzman. She was raised on a farm near Selden, Kansas. She graduated from Leoville High School in 1952, Marymount College in Salina, Kansas, and St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, where she received both her master's degree and doctorate...

If memory serves, and sometimes it does, the change starts to happen around sixth grade, but it is slow in coming and isn't obvious until midway through the seventh grade. Those who were once nothing more than an irritating mystery, a last-ditch playmate when everyone else was gone, are suddenly an intrigue and curiosity inspire any number of questions...

In a couple of generations, we've gone from allowing teachers to administer corporal punishment -- spanking -- to the point we are considering enabling them to administer capital punishment -- using a pistol to shoot a student who threatens their lives...