What stories they will tell.
The Lincoln Memorial High School Grand Reunion begins Wednesday and Alvin McKinney, Clatha Reaves and Jean Murray Ellenwood can’t wait.
"See faces I haven’t seen in 40, 50 years," said McKinney, Class of 1954.
"The memories," said Reaves, Class of 1964.
"Meet people I don’t know .... people I have something in common with," said Ellenwood, Class of 1960.
What they share befits the legacy of an institution central to the black community during segregation.
It was an old school upbringing.
"Heard the expression it takes a village to raise a child?" said McKinney, 74. "That was Lincoln and the neighborhood."
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Friday, December 11, 2009
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