Here are the top headlines from May 27 editions of The Telegraph over the years:
The final day of classes for the 2005-06 school year was held at the Alton High School campus on College Avenue, also marking the end of an era, as the school was set to move to its new campus on Humbert Road in Godfrey for the start of the 2006-07 school year. Students expressed mixed feelings about the move. The College Avenue campus is now home to Alton Middle School.
The Telegraph area athletes excelled at the 107th annual Illinois High School Association Boys State Track and Field Meet in Charleston. In the Class AA meet, senior Michael Stockard of Alton High School cleared 6 feet, 8 inches to finish fourth in the high jump. Sophomore Stephen Pifer of Edwardsville High School took the bronze medal in the 3,200 meters with a time of nine minutes, 13.24 seconds. In the Class A meet, junior Travis Williams of East Alton-Wood River High School won the silver medal in the triple jump at 45 feet, 6 inches, and the bronze medal in the long jump at 22 feet, 3 inches. Greenfield High School's Kyle McClelland won the silver medal in the high jump at 6 feet, 5 inches.
Charlene Gill, president of the Alton Museum of History and Art, made some history of her own by serving as the 124th grand marshal of the city's Memorial Day Parade, the nation's oldest continuous parade observing the annual holiday. The Alton native helped found the museum and had spent the past 20 years preserving the history of Alton, its landmarks, and the surrounding area.
Alton Mayor Paul Lenz kicked Alderman Jacquelyn Monroe out of a City Council meeting when she refused to stop talking about a controversy surrounding the Alton Auxiliary Police Corps. Police Chief Rudy Sowders escorted Monroe out of the council chambers at Lenz's direction. Lenz also threatened to remove Jim Anderson, a lieutenant in the auxiliary police corps, when he tried to speak from the floor in support of Monroe.
The Telegraph did not publish that day, a Sunday.
The Rev. R.H. Reader, pastor of the Webster Groves, Missouri, Baptist Church, accepted an invitation to give the commencement address to the June graduating class of Alton High School. Commencement week at the high school was to open June 13 with a baccalaureate sermon at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, with the commencement exercises scheduled for June 18 in the school assembly hall.
