MATTOON — Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation is pleased to announce that 16 Mattoon High School seniors have been named recipients of the 2022 MHS Alumni Scholarship.
A total of $15,500 has been awarded to the following students:
Faith Alvis received a $2,000 Florence Parker Scholarship. She plans to attend Murray State University to study aquatic biology.
Chase Armstrong received a $500 MHS Alumni Scholarship. He will attend Brigham Young University.
Cooper Bergstrom received a $1,500 scholarship sponsored by First Mid Bank and Trust. He plans to attend Saint Louis University to study dentistry.
Brock Davee was awarded a $1,500 scholarship sponsored by First Mid Bank and Trust. Brock plans to attend the College of Charleston, in Charleston, South Carolina, to study agriculture.
Josiah Donaldson was awarded a $750 MHS Alumni Scholarship to attend Kansas State University. He plans to study architectural engineering.
Kendall Harminson received a $500 MHS Alumni Scholarship. She plans to study nursing at Eastern Illinois University.
Chole Jobe was awarded a $1,500 Florence Parker Scholarship. Chloe plans to attend Lake Land College to study nursing.
Anna Jurka was awarded a $1,000 MHS Alumni Scholarship. Anna plans to attend Illinois State University to study nursing.
Grace Lange received a $500 MHS Alumni Scholarship. She plans to attend Concordia University Wisconsin for Biblical studies.
Logan MacDonald was awarded a $500 MHS Alumni Scholarship to attend Lake Land College to study agriculture.
Ethan Pope received a $500 MHS Alumni Scholarship. He plans to attend Lake Land College to pursue a business degree.
Morgan Prahl received $500 MHS Alumni Scholarship to pursue a nursing degree at Lake Land College.
Kaiden Rice received a $1,000 Helen Janssen Memorial Scholarship to attend Lake Land College studying physical therapy.
Averie Smith was awarded a $500 Carl Eatchson Education Scholarship. She plans to attend John A Logan College pursuing secondary education.
Isabella Smith received a $2,000 Carl Eatchson Education Scholarship to attend Millikin University to study secondary education.
Zachary Wetzel received a $500 Scholarship sponsored by First Mid Bank and Trust to attend Lake Land College pursuing civil engineering/architecture.
The Mattoon High School Alumni Scholarship, a fund of Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation, provides financial assistance for Mattoon High School seniors pursuing higher education.
My Town: Clint Walker’s memories of Coles County as pulled from the archives
Cosmic Blue Comics
From the Nov. 22, 1992, Journal Gazette, this photo of Cosmic Blue Comics in Mattoon; where I spent virtually every Saturday afternoon for about two years. That small back room you see just off to the right of the Coca-Cola sign was where they kept the many, and I mean many, long-boxes of back issues. I still own my bagged copy of “Tales of the Beanworld” issue No. 1 that I found back there. Sadly, this location is now just a “greenspace”.
Mattoon Arcade
Pictured, Shelbyville’s Bob Murray from the June 2, 1982, Journal Gazette, displaying his dominance over the TRON arcade game at the “Carousel Time” arcade at the Cross County Mall, later to be the Aladdin’s Castle, soon thereafter to be not a thing anymore. I spent just about every Saturday at that arcade, perhaps with that exact same haircut. No overalls, though. I was more of an “Ocean Pacific” kind of kid.
Icenogle’s
Pictured, from the Nov. 28, 1988, Journal Gazette, Icenogle’s grocery store. Being from Cooks Mills, we didn’t often shop at Icenogle’s…but when we did, even as a kid, I knew it was the way a grocery store is supposed to be in a perfect world, and that’s not just because they had wood floors, comic books on the magazine rack, or plenty, and I mean plenty, of trading cards in wax packs.
Cooks Mills
I had long since moved away from Cooks Mills by the time this Showcase item about Adam’s Groceries ran in the June 13, 1998, Journal Gazette, but there was a time when I very well could have been one of those kids in that photo; for if it was summer, and you had a bike, and you lived in Cooks Mills, that’s where you ended up. At last report, they still had Tab in the Pepsi-branded cooler in the back. I’m seriously considering asking my money guy if I could afford to reopen this place.
Mister Music
Pictured, from the July 16, 1987, Journal Gazette, this ad for Mister Music, formerly located in the Cross County Mall. I wasn’t buying records at that age, but I would eventually, and that’s where it all went down. If you don’t think it sounds “cool” to hang out at a record store with your buddies on a Friday night, a piping-hot driver’s license fresh in your wallet, you’d be right. But it’s the best a geek like me could do. Wherever you are today, owners of Mister Music, please know that a Minutemen album I found in your cheap bin changed my life.
Sound Source Guitar Throw
Portrait of the author as a young man, about to throw a guitar through a target at that year’s Sound Source Music Guitar Throwing Contest, from the April 18, 1994, Journal Gazette. Check out my grunge-era hoodie, and yes…look carefully, those are Air Jordans you see on my feet. Addendum: Despite what the cutline says, I did not win a guitar.
Pictured, clipped from the online archives at JG-TC.com, a photo from the April 18, 1994, Journal Gazette of Sound Source Music Guitar Throwing Contest winner, and current JG-TC staff writer, Clint Walker.
Vette’s
Here today, gone tomorrow, Vette’s Teen Club, from the June 20, 1991, Journal Gazette. I wasn’t “cool” enough to hang out at Vette’s back in it’s “heyday,” and by “cool enough” I mean, “not proficient enough in parking lot fights.” If only I could get a crack at it now.
FutureGen
FutureGen: The end of the beginning, and eventually, the beginning of the end, from the Dec. 19, 2007, JG-TC. I wish I had been paying more attention at the time. I probably should have been reading the newspaper.
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