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A Member of the elegance of 1941 attends Quapaw High Schools 100th Anniversary Reunion

by Lisa A. Yeager

QUAPAW, Okla. – Many alumni have been scanning the gang for familiar faces. For one 1941 Quapaw High faculty Alum, there have been none that he identified. “It makes me comprehend my durability because I’ve lost tune of each one among them. You consider the children you went to high school with…I’m the only survivor that I understand of.” Jim Carl is a World War II veteran and a Legion of Honor recipient. “I was the primary kid to enlist into the service out of Quapaw, Oklahoma; I have that distinction.” It has been 10 to fifteen years because of Carl’s ultimate lower back to Quapaw; however, he made the trip for the centesimal Anniversary reunion.

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“It’s something else to come lower back here to my place of birtdespiteof everything these years.” “It kind of offers you a lift thinking right here I am signing in right here, this antique, where I went to high school and grade faculty.” Carl brought. President of Alumni Relations Debbie McKibben was ecstatic to peer Carl. “My husband said you are acting like he is a Rockstar, and I stated he is! He’s a Rockstar! McKibben says that even though Quapaw is a small network, seeing the number of alumni in attendance is something unique. A lot of times, in large colleges, you do not know anybody in your class.

There were small, and we understand absolutely everyone, and we have that experience of own family, so it is a circle of relatives reunion.” No count number the space they’ve long gone or wherein they ended up, two hundred alumni walked thru the doorways of Quapaw high college another time to have a good time 100 years. “It form of reinforces the sensation that small faculties will have achievement memories too,” stated McKibben.

For Carl, he turned into honored to be there.

I’m tickled to death that I’m right here; I’m tickled to demise that I became invited and could make it.

It becomes the class of 1969’s 50th Anniversary additionally.

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