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May 22, 2025

In Retrospect

100 YEARS AGO
Articles are from May 21, 1925
For twenty-six young men and women, their days at Richwood High school have ended and the young people were given their coveted sheepskins at the forty-sixth annual commencement held in the Opera House Wednesday evening, May 13. Those who completed the course this year were: Frances Brobeck, Norman Cowgill, Mildred Cox, Pauline Curry, Josephine Daniels, Leo Davis, Lawrence Durnell, Earl Everett, Robert Fish, Geneva Fryman, Ada Hunt, Kathleen Imbody, Hazel Kirk, Victor Lee, Ralph Livingston, Robert Marriott, Dorothy Monson, Mildred Moore, Thomas Morrison, Ellen Potts, Cyrus Schombs, Lauretta Scharf, David Sidle, Virginia Williams, Margaret Winter and James Whitehead.
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William Carroll Hastings, of South F…

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