CORNING — The French Icarian Colony Foundation will be sponsoring their annual Paul Gauthier Memorial Golf Tournament on Saturday, Sept. 19 at Happy Hollow Country Club in Corning during the Southwest Valley’s homecoming celebration. The event begins with a shotgun start, four-person best ball at 9 a.m. Lunch, nine or 18 holes and mulligans are included for $140 per team.
Paul Gauthier’s business life was spent in the family company, The Adams County Free Press, as a printer, reporter, sports editor and editor-publisher, the latter until 1983. After selling the Free Press, he remained on staff as a part-time reporter, writing general news and features.
During four years of service in World War II, Gauthier served as daily briefing and information officer in 1944-45 to General George S. Patton’s general staff and to 40-50 radio and press correspondents covering the Third Army through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Czechoslovakia.
Gauthier held a long interest in the history of the Icaria Colony and its’ people who settled near Corning from 1852 to 1898. A strong supporter for the restoration of the Icarian Village east of Corning, he published “Quest for Utopia: The Icarians of Adams County” in 1992. Gather a foursome and help celebrate a great journalist and friend on Sept. 19. All proceeds go to the French Icarian Village restoration project. For more information and to sign up, call Jerry and Pat Getter at 641-322-3787 or Tim and Kathy Ennis at 641-344-4898.
The Foundation will host the annual Country School Reunion and Quilt Show also on Saturday, Sept. 19 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the French Icarian Village, 2349 220th St., Corning. All former country school students and teachers are invited to come and share their experience of attending a one-room school. For more information, or if you have a quilt that you would like to display, contact Teresa Parmenter at 515-321-9743, Norman Jean Mosman at 641-322-3881or the office at icaria@frontiernet.net or 641-322-4717.