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November 5, 2025April 17, 2012 by Alan Farley

When I was in high school most kids my age didn’t think too much about going to college. I read somewhere that the national statistics showed that 1953 was the first year that the dropout rate was less than fifty per cent. While it wasn’t nearly that bad at South Charleston High School, only a … Read more

Categories Joplin Hollow Tags Alan Keith Farley, Columbia University, Early Adulthood, Morris Harvey, Virginia Tech

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