June 4, 2015

Captured on Film #14

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.

Two students from St. Vincent's College -- Richard Wehrmeyer, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Wehrmeyer of Metropolis, Illinois, and Paul Payne, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Payne of Joplin, Missouri -- sat at the grotto on the school grounds and watched the Mississippi River roll by in April 1979. (Phil Nash ~ Southeast Missourian archive photo)

Published Nov. 14, 1966. A group of Girardeans left early Nov. 13, 1966, for a flight to Boston, Mass., to present Cape Girardeau's case before the All-America City jury. Here Ken Hayden, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Community Development Committee, left, and DuNard Cooper, development committee member, loaded one of the two heavy cases containing the city's All-America City exhibit into the trunk of a car for transport to Lambert Field in St. Louis. (Southeast Missourian archive photo)

Cub Scouts from Den 3, Pack 18 at Jefferson School took part in a neighborhood cleanup in May 1978. The boys are, left to right: Rodney Hurt, Barry Shuck, Curtis Davis and David Blakley. (Southeast Missourian archive photo)

Published Nov. 28, 1956. While the total proceeds failed to come up to expectations, these men of Headquarters Co., 140th Infantry, deserved a big E for effort as the National Guard took over the United Fund's (now United Way) porchlight campaign. They were shown in the photo getting their final instructions from the company commander, Capt. Vinson Rueseler. (G.D. Fronabarger ~ Southeast Missourian archive)

Published Jan. 28, 1990. Oscar Hirsch was honored with the Rush H. Limbaugh Award, presented by Don McNeely to Hirsch's wife, Geraldine Fitzgerald Hirsch, during the annual Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Dinner and Dance at the Show Me Center. Looking on at right was the 1990 Board Chairman Larry Payne. (Southeast Missourian archive photo)

Published Friday, July 11, 1958. These 13 youths from Southeast Missouri were shown before boarding a bus for a trip to St. Louis where they underwent examinations preliminary to their enlisted 4-year Navy careers. Those passing the exams were to be sent either to Great Lakes Naval Training Station, or the station at San Diego, Calif. All were enlisted by the local Navy recruiting office. In the group were, from the left, standing, Chief Jack Finch of the local recruiting office; Zed Cawthon, Cape; Charles Nenninger, Perryville; Leslie Case, Bloomfield; Bruce West, Lutesville; Arthur Poorman, Commerce; Roy Simmons, Commerce, and Edward Mallett, Delta; kneeling, Darwin Mattingly, Wayne Zoellner, Darrell Campbell and Joseph Laws, Perryville; Cecil Baker, Allenville; Neil McClard, Jackson, and Chief Dan Turner of the recruiting staff. (Southeast Missourian archive photo)

Published March 9, 1988. Students at Franklin School in Cape Girardeau took protective positions in the hallway of the school building during a mock tornado drill. The drill was part of the annual statewide Missouri tornado drill which was held in conjunction with Severe Weather Preparedness Week. (Mark Sterkel ~ Southeast Missourian archive photo)

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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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