Irwin M. Abrams, a longtime professor of history at Antioch College, a pioneer in the field of peace research and a global authority on the Nobel Peace Prize, died on Dec. 16 at the Friends Care Center.

Norman L. Thomas, of Yellow Springs, died Monday, Dec. 20. He was 87.

December 16, 2010 Bulldog Sports Round-up

The Artists Formerly Known As The Third Friday Players will present “‘What?’: An Exploration of Dreams, Reality and Numbers,” another meta-philosophic dramatic sketch comedy performance with the same superhero in it.

Yet again, the annual Yellow Springs High School School Forest Festival is upon us, and School Foresters will be camping out in the cold for a weekend and selling their trees.

The Yellow Springs High School girls basketball team has a new coach this year, but he is no stranger to coaching. This season will be Xenia native Clayton Brady’s 35th year coaching basketball. For the past two years Brady has coached the seventh-grade McKinney boys basketball team that the championship last year.

The Lady Bulldogs lost their season opener at Mechanicsburg by a score of 89–28 on Monday, Nov. 29. Alex Beer led Yellow Springs (0–1) with 12 points, four rebounds and two assists.

A memorial service for Frank Betcher will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 29, at 2 p.m. in Rockford Chapel.

A Crickets basketball makeup session, replacing the canceled third session, will be held Tuesday, Dec. 14, 4–5 p.m. at the Bryan Center. The remaining originally scheduled sessions will be held on Fridays, Dec. 3, 10 and 17, 6–7 p.m.

Esther Elizabeth (Hursh) Haynes of Yellow Springs died Sunday, Nov. 28 at Friends Care Center. She was 98. Esther was born Oct. 27, 1912, in Clark County, the daughter of the late Harrison and Effie Hursh.