A Look Back, June 18

50 Years Ago

■A Northampton patrolman was sent home yesterday by Chief of Police James J. Whalen for coming to work with a mustache. Patrolman Jerry L. Otto received a radio message from Sgt. Eugene P. Wisnouskas that the chief had ordered him off duty because of the mustache. Departmental regulations require police officers to be clean-shaven.

■Atty. John F. Foley and the Pioneer National Bank, co-trustees of the Helen U. Kiely Trust, have announced that the selection committee has advised them that the recipient of the annual Helen U. Kiely award is Mary Anna Labato of 53 North St., a graduating senior at Northampton High School. Miss Labato plans to enter Smith College in the fall.

25 Years Ago

■Tributes, stories and farewells were the main course at the Delaney House Friday night as 250 people honored Northampton High School assistant principal and football coach Frank Tudryn, who is leaving the area to take a head football coaching position in Florida. The testimonial was filled with levity as friends and family recited anecdotes from their relationships with Tudryn and his wife Pam during the past 30 years.

■The faculty at the University of Massachusetts is wary of a recently released study that proposes the university take a giant leap into on-line and distance education, with control seated in President William Bulger’s office in Boston. The biggest concern that the faculty has about this is quality control, said Jane K. Giacobbe-Miller, president of the Massachusetts Society of Professors.

10 Years Ago

■Northampton Police Capt. Jody D. Kasper is the mayor’s pick for police chief, putting her in line to be the city’s first female chief and joining nine other women who hold the job out of the state’s 351 chiefs. Mayor David J. Narkewicz Tuesday chose Kasper, 40, a 17-year veteran with the department and the overwhelming favorite among the city’s nine-member City Council and its police force, over Manchester, Connecticut, Chief Marc L. Montminy.

■So-called big-box stores will not be allowed to open in Easthampton after the City Council on Wednesday approved a zoning change that caps the size of a building housing a single retailer to 50,000 square feet.