Remember When March 2, 2023

10 years ago (2013)
•The Luverne High School gymnastics program needs a permanent home, and School Board members discussed proposals at their Feb. 21 meeting.
Before the start of the Luverne 2012-2013 gymnastics season, the district was informed that after 22 years of the gymnastics team’s use of the Luverne Armory for practice and meets, the facility did not meet state safety standards.
A Minnesota State High School League rule says no facility with fewer than 19 feet of clearance above any competition area can be used to host meets.
The Armory’s overhead balcony is too close to the athletes who use the vault, according to the High School League rules.
 
25 years ago (1998)
•Luverne High School students will be in Kansas City at Worlds of Fun amusement park this spring, if the junior class can raise enough money to make the trip.
Luverne School Board members informally endorsed the plans at their Feb. 19 meeting.
After-prom committee co-chair Christine Reisch presented the board with the proposed plans, and juniors Jesse Reisch, Tiffany Ward and Carolyn Norton explained how it would work.
Luverne’s prom this year will fall on April 25. Pre-prom and prom schedules will be much like previous years, with a formal dinner at the Country Club, grand march and a traditional dance, which will wrap up at about midnight.
 
50 years ago (1973)
•Jim Brandenburg’s 31-picture exhibition of color photographs taken in Minnesota’s North Woods Country will be on display at the First National Bank of Luverne from March 4-16.
The show opens this Sunday, March 4, with an open house at the First National from 2 to 5 p.m. Brandenburg will be on hand to explain the photos and answer questions.
The exhibit creator is a Luverne native and the son of Mrs. Edward (Buster) Brandenburg of Luverne. In recent years Brandenburg has emerged as one of the state’s top wildlife and journalistic photographers.
 
75 years ago (1948)
•Opening Saturday in the Myhre Studio building on West Main street will be a new ladies ready-to-wear store, Ann’s Apparel.
Owner of the new business is Mrs. Ann Johnson, who for the past six and one-half years has been manager of the ready-to-wear department of a local department store. Prior to coming to Luverne, Mrs. Johnson operated her own store in Rock Rapids, Iowa, for several years.
Mrs. Johnson will specialize in women’s dresses, junior size dresses, lingerie, millinery, and accessories, and states that she has been fortunate to receive a fine array of quality merchandise for spring.
 
100 years ago (1923)
•Merrill Abbey, class of ’23, won first honors in oratoricals at the high school district declamatory contest held Thursday evening of last week at St. James, and will therefore have the honor of representing the second district in the state declamatory contest to be held Friday, March 30th, at Minneapolis.
Four schools competed for this honor, Windom, Sherburn, Peterburg and Luverne, all representatives of which had been winners in the sub-district matches. The subject of Mr. Abbey’s selection was “The Turk Must Go,” and he won unstinted praise on his method of delivery, as we as on the instructive value of his speech.
In Thursday night’s event, Windom was awarded first rank in dramatics. Luverne high school will participate in a triangular debating contest with Windom and Worthington on Friday, March 9th.