Louise Stutzman and Thelma Burnett Memorial Scholarship

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Custer County Foundation

This scholarship is for seniors from high schools in Custer County, Nebraska. Preference will be given to students from Broken Bow High School. To qualify for this scholarship, applicants must have a 2.5 or higher GPA and plan to major in education.

Stutzman, Louise, 89, of Broken Bow died April 14, 2009, at the Waverly Care Center in Waverly. Memorials are suggested to the Broken Bow Church of God. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Govier Brothers Mortuary in Broken Bow with the Rev. Mike Wheatly officiating. Burial will be in the.

"Retired" Bow Teacher Enjoys New Capacity

(Custer County Chief - November, 1980)

When Joe Cupl, Jr. retired from Broken Bow High School in 1977, even he had no idea how soon he would be back into the teaching profession.  All the attitudes and feelings about teaching that Cupl practiced on science students for 35 years are now being used in a different capacity.  Cupl is now teaching a special needs shop class consisting of nine students.  

"I've always been demanding of my students," continued Cupl.  "I wanted them to do better than was necessary just to get the job done.  I learned this from my father."  Joe Cupl's father was a shoemaker by trade.  He had received very choice training in Vienna when Austria was still under German rule and exactness and perfection prevailed. The Cupl family came to America from Czechoslovakia in 1920 when Joe Cupl, Jr. was eight yeard old.  They settled in Ord, Nebraska.

Teaching is more than a job to Joe Cupl, Jr.  Teaching is the privilege of helping young people along the way.  Cupl simply does not have time to retire from a privilege.