21 WFMJ archives / May 15,  1985 | Youngstown State University President Dr. Neil D. Humphrey and his wife, Mary Humphrey, presented scholarships to juniors Anthony E. Bisconti and Sherry Anne Brennan during the 26th annual Honors Convocation 40 years ago.  Dr. James P. Ronda, YSU history professor and Pulitzer Prize nominee, told the assembly that "Honors Day is here to remind us that the essential function of the university is to gather knowledge, think about that knowledge in a way as to fashion wisdom and then transmit that wisdom to folks young and old."

May 15 

2000: As many as a dozen workers in hazmat suits and wearing battery-powered respirators begin work to remove as much as 600 cubic yards of asbestos from the former McKelvey's building in downtown Youngstown, which is actually a complex of six connected buildings. 

The Loghurst Museum, which has been closed for a year for renovations, will reopen on June 10. The farmhouse built by Conrad Neff in 1805 is believed to be the oldest remaining home in the Western Reserve. 

Specialty paper maker Sorg Paper Co. closes after almost 150 years of operation in Middletown, Ohio.

1985: Four assaults on Mahoning County Children Services Board caseworkers in the past three months result in the creation of a committee to study ways of protecting workers in the field.

An armed robber abducts two security guards from the Waterford Park racetrack and escapes with $30,000 they were taking to an East Liverpool bank. 

Cleveland Browns football coach Sam Rutigliano speaks at the kickoff dinner in Niles for a Shepherd of the Valley Nursing Home fund-raiser. 

1975: U.S. automakers report sales dropped 21 percent in early May compared to a year earlier, reaching the lowest level for that period in 17 years. 

The Mahoning Valley Health Planning Association approves the establishment of an alcoholism treatment center in Hillside Hospital in Trumbull County. 

1950: Joseph Majick, 31, of Bristolville, and his son, Roger, 6, drowned when their motorboat overturned in Mosquito Lake. 

A Warren couple is killed when they are pinned beneath their own car in a freak tragedy. Joseph and Violet Chelpanoff died when their car rolled over an embankment 50 yards from their home. 

Dr. William H. Hudnut, who retired after 39 years as pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Youngstown, returns for the twelfth year to give the Mother's Day sermon.