In the news on this date: June 10

50 years ago: 1972

Eleven Penn State Altoona co-eds were presenting a program on synchronized swimming called "Geometrics" at the Altoona YMCA for a physical education class the school offered. Eileen Porta was campus instructor.

25 years ago: 1997

Sixty-one members of the Roller Coaster Club of Great Britain were to stop at Lakemont Park that week to visit the Leap the Dips roller coaster, which was built in 1902 and was listed as the world's oldest wooden roller coaster.

10 years ago: 2012

The Logan Township Police Department, Ron Heller chief, received 20 M16 military rifles from the U.S. Defense Department under a program, now on hold, that donated various military weapons to local police departments.