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Schenkel honored with signs

Jeremy Winkelman (left) and Lowell Stouder show off one of the signs they installed marking Bippus as the hometown of the late Chris Schenkel, a nationally known sportscaster.
Jeremy Winkelman (left) and Lowell Stouder show off one of the signs they installed marking Bippus as the hometown of the late Chris Schenkel, a nationally known sportscaster. Photo provided.

New signs are now in place recognizing the Huntington County community of Bippus as the hometown of the late sportscaster Chris Schenkel.

The four new signs, provided by the Huntington County Highway Department, were installed Sept. 17 by Lowell Stouder, Jeremy Winkelman and Stan Bippus.

Stouder and Jim "Lefty" Bippus had installed the first set of signs 30 years ago.

Of those first signs, two were missing and the other two were badly faded.

Schenkel, a Purdue University graduate, spent most of his broadcasting career with ABC Sports, covering football, baseball, basketball, auto racing, golf and tennis.

He anchored both Summer and Winter Olympics and spent 36 years covering The Professional Bowlers Tour.

In his high school days, Schenkel was cut from the Bippus Tigers basketball team, but ended up being named to 16 different Halls of Fame.

The Indiana legislature named Ind.-105 the "Chris Schenkel Highway."

Schenkel died in 2005.