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First meet at home June 11 vs. Bluffton

Photo: Ada Gator swim coaches this season are (from left) Kyley Stuart, Katey Stuart, Zach Beaschler

The Ada Gators swim team first home meet will be against the Bluffton Sardines on Thursday, June 11. All meets begin at 6 p.m. Here is the season schedule:

David Archer (left) was inducted into the Ada High School Hall of Honors on Saturday during the AHS Alumni Association annual banquet. Keith Stover of Ft. Myers, Fla., was the oldest graduate present. He is retired from two management companies after having graduated in 1951. David, served as a Marine in Vietnam. He was selected to the Hall of Honors “to give public recognition to his service, strength, and selfless sacrifice.” (Monty Siekerman photo)

It’s been a busy weekend on campus in addition to it being Alumni Weekend. Here are Ken Collins’ photos of The Cadets, a world class drum and bugle corps, whose members are making ONU their home for two weeks while they prepare their formations and music for shows that will be held from Coast to Coast during the rest of summer..

Here are drummers practicing...without their drums. Members of the Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps practice on a field next to the Sports Center on Sunday afternoon. The 150 members of the corps arrived in Ada on Friday. At this early-on stage, the drummers are learning their moves on the field. Later, they will take up their drums and add the music to their steps. The corps practice in small groups in the mornings and afternoons, no matter how hot the blazing sun. From 7-9 p.m. at the ONU stadium, the Cadets practice as an entire group.

David Archer (left) was inducted into the Ada High School Hall of Honors on Saturday during the AHS Alumni Association annual banquet. 

Keith Stover of Ft. Myers, Fla., was the oldest graduate present. He is retired from two management companies after having graduated in 1951. 

David, served as a Marine in Vietnam. He was selected to the Hall of Honors “to give public recognition to his service, strength, and selfless sacrifice.”

Monty Siekerman photo

Noah Pinkney (center) received the $500 Ada High School Alumni Association scholarship this year. He is pictured with Sara and Michael Rush, Association co-presidents at the group’s annual banquet on Saturday evening in the school cafeteria.

Noah, the son of Rachel and Jason Pinkney, has enrolled at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., to study physics and math. He already has earned 22 credit hours of college math while attending ONU during his high school years. He is an AHS valedictorian, played soccer, and was a member of the successful quiz bowl team.

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