Eighth Generation

183. Claudia May RENNER¹ was born on July 8, 1940 in Mahalasville, Morgan County, Indiana. RN - 162
ORIGINAL ENTRIES, 2 Apr. 1964.
ADDITIONS, 11 Oct. 1971; 2 Sept. 1974; 11 Aug. 1989.
Renner Family Record
Cline Family Record.

ENGAGED—Mr. and Mrs. Claude Renner of R. R. 5 announce the engagement of their daughter, Claudia M., to Samuel M. Cline, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Cline of R. R. 1, Linton. The bride-elect is a graduate of Morgantown High School, while the prospective bridegroom graduated from the Mars Hill (Marco) High School in 1956 and attended Indiana State Teachers College. Both are employed in the State Highway Department in Indianapolis. No date has been set for the wedding.
(Reporter, Martinsville, Indiana, 1960.)

Mr. and Mrs. Claude Renner of Martinsville route five are announcing the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Claudia, to Samuel M. Cline, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis P. Cline of Linton route one.
Miss Renner is a graduate of Morgantown High school and is attending the Indiana University Extension at Indianapolis. Mrs. (Mr.)Cline was graduated from Marco High school and attended Indiana State Teachers College at Terre Haute. Both of the young people are employed by the State Highway department at Indianapolis. No definite date has been set for the wedding. (Daily Citizen, Linton, Indiana, 1960.)

From Our Files, 25 Years Ago, May 9,1958
Claudia Renner received the Ermal Murphy Memorial Award and one of the American Legion citizenship awards at Morgantown High School's commencement exercises. Richard Kemp received the Lions Club Award, and Gary Admire, the American Legion Award. Admire was class salutatorian and Kemp was valedictorian.
(Reporter, Martinsville, Indiana, May 9, 1983.)

Parents oppose moving pupils, petition board, By BILL STROTHER Journal Staff Writer

Some parents of Nineveh-Hensley-Jackson school children are concerned about a plan school officials are discussing that would move fifth graders to Indian Creek Middle School.
Such a move would add about 120 students at the middle school, according to N-H-J Superintendent William Glentzer. The school currently operates at only about 75 percent capacity—with about 425 students in grades six through eight.
Several parents of elementary school students brought their case against the plan to school board members Tuesday. One, Jackson Township resident Claudia Cline, presented a petition containing signatures of 473 township residents who oppose any such move.
Glentzer emphasized that school officials have only begun initial discussions on the possibility of such a transfer, saying no decision has been made on moving the students, and that he hasn't made up his mind whether to propose the plan to the board at all.
Glentzer said he welcomes the concern shown by parents on the issue but added that such early opposition seems a little premature.
Mrs. Cline said she and other parents want to make sure board members understand many parents oppose the idea.
She said one of the main concerns of parents is that 9 and 10 year olds are not ready to handle the middle school environment. "We don't think they're mentally or physically capable of being put into the environment of the middle school or high school," she said. She said that drinking and drug use typically are middle and high school problems, and older children also are sexually active.
Parents are also concerned their children would spend too much time traveling on buses to get to and from class, Mrs. Cline said.
The proposal was part of a report prepared by consultants on options for serving N-H-J students.
She admitted a move of fifth graders up to the middle school "would probably reduce (operating) costs—however, there's a time to consider the future of children regardless of cost." She added that savings in operational costs would be at least partially offset by increased transportation expenses.
Glentzer said he will be meeting with some of the parents who are concerned about the proposal next week to discuss in more detail the issue's pros and cons.
He said he does not think Indian Creek Middle School has serious problems with drinking, drugs or sex.
He agreed that moving the fifth graders would provide savings at the middle school and that it might also mean a savings on the cost of building new facilities for elementary students.
(Daily Journal, Franklin, Greenwood, Indiana, April 13, 1983.)

Parents are concerned about moving 5th grade to Jr. H igh
By PATIENCE NORTHERN

A delegation of parents told the Nineveh-Hensley-Jackson School Board, during their regular meeting this week, that they didn't want their fifth grade children moved to middle school.
Claudia Cline was the spokesman for the remonstrators, and she presented a petition against transferring the corporation's fifth graders to Indian Creek Middle School. The petition was signed by 473 persons.
Mrs. Cline, in a prepared statement, said that the group was concerned about Integrating nine and 10 year old children "into an environment of drugs, alcohol and sexually active students in the middle and high school." She said that studies showed that 64 percent of all students try or use drugs, with the most drug usage in the middle school and lower grades.
Mrs. Cline listed other concerns as busing time to transfer the students to the middle school, class size, extracurricular activities, etc. She added, "While we realize the elementary schools are not new, the quality of education in our building is superior."
She closed by saying, "We know it is the school board's objective to operate the school system at the least amount of expense to the taxpayer. However, we think the future of our children is more Important than money."
Several other parents expressed concern about the move. Gene Allen, a newly elected school board member who will be seated July 1, said he had figures showing the NHJ elementary schools were improving scholastically, while the middle school had declined for the past three years.
Superintendent William Glentzer told the remonstrators that the reason the move was planned was to use the middle school up to its full capacity, as suggested by a recent feasibility study. He said that the move was not definite.
Board member Joe Dallas noted that the feasibility study is not yet complete, and that no plans were firm.
Other matters

Dr. Glentzer told the board that the 1984 legislature did not correct the shortfall of $25,244 in state funds to the corporation. He said there was a chance it might increase.
Because of an error, the board decided to re-advertise the public hearing to reestablish the cumulative building fund. It will be during the next regular meeting.
The board agreed to buy six school buses, at a total cost of $170,000. They tabled making a decision on where to borrow the money. American Fletcher National Bank and Franklin Bank and Trust bid 70 and 75 percent of their prime rates, respectively, as the rates they would charge for a loan.
The summer recreational program will remain the same as last year, with costs about the same. Schedules for swimming, weight training, tennis, basketball and band participation will be published in The Reporter.
Plans for the adult and student summer computer training classes have been delayed temporarily, the board learned.
A request was made to have the high school band play as a part of the graduation program. The seniors have voted not to have it perform. The superintendent said that he would try to work out a compromise plan.
Claims totaling $230,480 were okayed.
In executive session, the board and Glentzer met with coaches Steve Grenat, Dave Fetherolf and Jim Anthony, to discuss personnel involved in the sports programs. Glentzer reported that the meeting had a positive tone, and said, "We are looking forward to good basketball and football from the same people in the future."
(Reporter, Martinsville, Indiana, April 14, 1983.)

Jury Commissioners Bernice Baker and Gladys Finch have drawn trial jurors for the spring term of Morgan Circuit and Superior Courts. However, they did not draw grand jurors, since the winter term grand jury has been held over for its current investigation.
Members of the circuit court trial juries will be drawn from:
Willie H. Willis, Mooresville R. R. 3; Opal Brown, 137 W. High St., Mooresville; Helen Robinson, 240 S. Mulberry St.; William E. Delk, Mooresville R. R. 1; Betty Joan Mashlno, Mooresville R. R.1;Sherree Russell, 180 W. Randolph St.; John M. Styer, Gosport R. R. 1; Maude Alice Dlllender, 580 W. Harrison St.; Shirley A. Barkhlmer, R. R. 8; Harold Vogel, R. R. 7; Chester Burnett, Qulncy; William O. Watklns, 239 W. Walnut St.; Wayne Borden, Mooresville R. R. 3; Edgar Hartman, Camby R. R. 2; Tempest B. Gunned, 214 Indianapolis Road, Mooresville; Ralph E. Tackett, 289 W. Randolph St.; Shirley Stott, 889 S. Harriet St.; Remona Jane Eggets, Church Street, Brooklyn; Lena F. Towel, R. R. 7; Marjorie B. Newcomer, North Carter Street, Mooresville; Stephen Arnold Hadley, Monrovia; Andree Joy Haynie, R. R. 8; Steven J. Ridgeway, 160 S. Marlon St.; Phillip R. Smith, 1159 S. Main St.; Iva B. Grlggs, Brooklyn; Claudia Renner Cline, R. R. 5; Lyda Skaggs, 1320 Catherine St.; Charles R. Harriman, Mooresville R. R. 1; James Merrill Stephenson, Monrovia R. R. l; Gail Sutche, Monrovia R. R. 1; and Martha J. Eaton, Mooresville R. R. 1.
(Reporter, Martinsville, Indiana, April 2, 1976.)

Claudia May RENNER and Samuel Miles CLINE were married on November 18, 1960 in Martinsville, Washington Township, Morgan County, Indiana. Samuel Miles CLINE¹ (son of Paul Lewis "Pokey" CLINE and Luva Mildred PALMER) was born on June 1, 1938 in Linton, Stockton Township, Greene County, Indiana. RN - 173
ORIGINAL ENTRIES, 2 Apr. 1964.
ADDITIONS, 11 Oct. 1971; 2 Sept. 1974; 11 Aug. 1989.
Cline Family Record.
Baptised, Pleasant Grove Church of Christ, June 28, 1954, Goose Pond lake, County Road 1200 West, Greene County, Indiana.
Birth Record 5, Page 67, Greene County Health Department, Bloomfield, Indiana.

Alfred, "Eccentric" Lord Tennyson
(1809-1892)
Crossing the Bar (1889)
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound or foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell;
When I embark;
For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.

Samuel Cline Selected to Fill Council Position
Samuel Cline, 4785 Mahalasville Rd., has been selected to fill the Morgan County Council District 2 position of Marvin Mason, made vacant because of Mason's election as a county commissioner in the November election.
Cline was chosen by a Morgan County Republican Central Committee caucus of precinct committeemen from Clay Township Prercincts 1 and 2, Green Township Precincts 1 and 2, Jackson Township Precincts 1 and 2, Harrison Township, and Washington Township Precincts 8 and 9, Saturday. They met in Superior Court III in the courthouse. All eligible to vote were present. Others who applied for the position were Janet Colborn, Jon Elkins, James Farrell and Bill Robinson.
Cline will take office Jan. 1, 1997. (Martinsville Reporter, December 16, 1996.)


MORGAN COUNTY
Political newcomer to fill the vacancy on County Council
Samuel Cline, owner of land acquisition firm, will replace county commissioner-elect.
By Kim L.Hooper
MARTINSVILLE, Ind. - Morgan County Republicans have selected Samuel M. Cline to replace Marvin Mason on the County Council.
Cline, 58, will serve out the remaining two years of Mason's four-year council term. The vote of precinct committee members Saturday was unanimous, according to county GOP Treasurer Norman Voyles.
Cline, of Jackson Township, is a political newcomer with no experience as an elected official.
"I usually sit back and observe. When I said 'OK. I'll run.' that was my first introduction to public office." said Cline, who is self employed and owns the Hoosier Group, a land acquisition firm.
He will represent District 2 in Morgan County, which covers all or parts of Clay, Green, Harrison, Jackson and Washington townships.
He was among four seeking to fill the council vacancy created when Mason was elected county commissioner Nov. 7. Mason resigned his council seat, effective Dec. 31.
Cline said the annual budget and county construction costs are issues he believes to be important.
He said he hasn't formed an opinion on the controversial comprehensive plan, which deals with planning and zoning ordinances and development.
"I've not taken any sides on that issue. We've had comprehensive planning since the 1960s", he said.
Still, the issues have been political, leading to resignations of two Plan Commission members this month.
Leaving the Plan Commission were its president, Susan Smith of Mooresville, and member Sue Levell of Martinsville. They resigned partly in protest of policies they expect the new County Commissioners will enact.
Their resignations are effective at the end of December.
Through much of the past year philosophic differences about planning and zoning have found them at odds with fellow commission members Mason and Jim Bowyer.
Smith and Levell advocated the planning and zoning ordinances adopted by the commission and County Commissioners during the summer.
They view the ordinances as progress in the county's efforts to control inevitable development sweeping most of the Metro West area.
Bowyer and Mason have said the new laws are too restrictive on personal property rights.
Bowyer also won a seat as county commissioner in the November election. The County Commissioners appoint members of the Plan Commission.
Cline and other elected officials will be sworn into office during a ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Dec. 28 in Morgan Superior Court 3 at the county courthouse.
(The Indianapolis, Indiana, Star, December 18, 1996, p. C3.)

Morgan
Cline appointed to council vacancy
Martinsville - Samuel Cline of Martinsville has been selected to fill the Morgan County Council District 2 position held by Marvin Mason.
Mason was elected county commissioner in November.
Cline, who will take office Jan. 1, was chosen by Morgan County Republican precinct committee members. Other candidates were Janet Colborn, Jon Elkins, James Farrell and Bill Robinson. (Herald-Times, Bloomington, Indiana, December 19, 1996.)

New Morgan and Hendricks officials set to take Oaths
Staff Report
Republicans in Hendricks and Morgan counties will see their November winners sworn into office Saturday.
In Hendricks County, the ceremony will get under way at 10:30 a.m. in the courthouse in Danville.
Circuit Judge Jeffrey Boles and Superior Court 2 Judge David Coleman will be sworn in.
Other newly elected county officials we will take the oath are Sharon Dugan, clerk; Debbie Simpson, auditor; Marcella Nicely, treasurer; Steven Matthews, coroner; David Underhill and John "Bud" Daum, commissioners; and Richard Dietz, Larry Hesson and Hunt Palmer, council members.
In Morgan County, elected officals will be sworn in at the courthouse in Martinsville at 10 a.m.
G. Thomas Gray will take the oath as Superior Court 1 judge, and Jane Spencer Craney will be sworn in as Superior Curt 3 judge.
Also being sworn in will be Victoria Kivett, recorder; Mae Cooper, treasurer; Brian Ringer, coroner; John McDaniel, surveyor; Jim Bowyer and Marvin Mason, commissioners; and Chester Bastin, Marilyn Gray and Norman Voyles, council members.
Samuel Cline will be sworn in to fill Mason's unexpired term on the County Council. (The Indianapolis Star, December 28, 1996.)

There are some new faces in county offices
State Senator Richard Bray administered the oath of office to re-elected Judge Tom Gray. Judge Gray then gave the oath to the other officials on Saturday at the courthouse. All the offices for the officials are in the county's new administrative building at Main and Columbus Streets, except for those related to the courts.
Sworn in were Recorder Vickie Kivett, Treasurer Mae Cooper, Coroner Brian Ringer, Surveyor John McDaniel and Commissioners Jim Bowyer and Marvin Mason.
The judge also swore in Coucilmen Chet bastin, Norman Voyles and Marilyn Gray, the first woman to be elected to a county council position in Morgan County.
Re-elected Superior III Judge Jane Spencer Craney was absent.
Sam Cline, who was elected by precinct committee people to fill Mason's term on the council, was also sworn in. Cline, 58, lives at 4785 Mahalasville Road. He will serve the last two years of Mason's term.
Cline earlier said he believes annual bedget and county construction costs are important. He said he hasn't formed an opinion on the controversial comprehensive plan and it zoning ordinances.
He is self-employed and owns the Hoosier Group, a land acquisition firm. (Publisher unknown; December 30, 1996.)

Cline named County Historian
Samuel M. Cline of Martinsville has been named by the Indiana Historical Bureau and Indiana Historical Society as the new Morgan County Historian.
Created by the IHS and the Bureau in 1981, the County Historian program is an effort to improve the historical communication network in the state. The County Historian serves primarily as a resource person, providing information on local resources both on the local level and to interested individuals and organizations outside the county. Cline succeeds Dale Drake as Morgan County Historian.
For more information on the County Historian program, contact John Harris, IHS local history services director, at (317)232-4591, fax (317)233-3109, or e-mail at jharris@statelib.lib.in.us.
The Indiana Historical Society is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1830 to collect, preserve and promote Indiana's history. For more information or for a menbership application, write or visit the Indiana Historical Society offices at 315 W. Ohio St., Indianapolis, or call (317)232-1882, fax (317)233-3109 or e-mail rboomhower@statelib.lib.in.us. (The Daily Reporter, Martinsville, Indiana, Thursday, January 29, 1998.)

Dena Burkett Elected as county Treasurer

The Morgan County Republican precinct committeemen on Monday evening in Superior Court 3 elected Dena Burkett to fill Mae Cooper's un expired term as county treasurer. Cooper ran for county auditor and won the position in November. She will become auditor on Jan. 1.
GOP County Chairman Rod Bray said that Burkett has worked in the treasurer's office for about 12 years and 2 1/2 years as first deputy. She defeated former County Councilman Sam Cline, who was the only other candidate running for treasurer.
Bray said about 90 percent of the committeemen made it to the caucus. He also said the party would have a swearing-in ceremony on Dec. 28 at 10 a.m. at the Administration Building. He said the party wouldn't have to reorganize until 2005, so he will stay on as chairman.
(The Reporter-Times, December 17, 2002, p. A1.)

Morgan County
GOP picks deputy treasurer to follow her boss in office
By Stuart A. Hirsch
stuart.hirsch@indystar.com
Morgan County Republican Party officials have elected Dena Burkett to the post of county treasurer.
She will finish the two years remaining on Mae Cooper's term. Cooper resigned the post to become county auditor.
The county treasurer's job is to collect, disburse and invest county money. Burkett currently is first deputy treasurer of Morgan County and has worked in the office about 12 years.
She was elected Monday by a majority vote of Republican Party precinct committee officials.
Sam Cline, a county historian and former member of the Morgan County Council, also ran for the post.
Each candidate was allowed to make a three-minute presentation to precinct committeemen, said Vicki, Kivett, vice chairman of the Republican Party in Morgan County.
"She had actual hands-on experience in the office," said Kivett, who did not vote. "I think that gave her the uppperhand."
Party Chairman Rod Bray agreed Burkett's extensive experience gave her the edge.
Brad did not disclose the vote tally, but said, "It wasn't particularly close."
Neither Burkett nor Cooper could be reached for comment Tuesday.
Burkett is expected to join Cooper and other Republican county elected officials, including Sheriff-elect Robert Garner and County Commissioner-elect Brian Goss, at a swearing-in ceremony.
The oaths of office will be administered by Circuit Judge Matt Hanson and Superior Court Judge Christopher Burnham.
Bray said the swearing-in ceremony is expected to last a couple of hours. (Call Stuart Hirsch at 1-317-272-4405. The Indianapolis Star, December 18, 2002, p. W1.) Claudia May RENNER and Samuel Miles CLINE had the following children:

+236	i.	Miles Andrew CLINE.
+237	ii.	Cynthia Ann CLINE.