This Gazette throwback appeared in the June 16, 1982 edition.
“Adam Johnson, left, receives the Maude E. Weinschenk Scholarship from Galena Superintendent Kennehty Schablowsky. Applicants wrote a series of poems that were judged by members of the English department at Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa. The scholarship will cover Johnson’s housing and book costs at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Johnson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Johnson Jr.