The News-Gazette Graduation Tab is a long-standing publication which showcases and honors the high school graduates in our area! Friends, family members, and even local businesses offer congratulations to the graduating seniors.
Graduating from high school is a momentous step between worlds. It's when we step out of childhood and solidly into adulthood. The graduation tab helps preserve that moment. It gets immortalized in print and keeps that moment locked in time. Every school has yearbooks, where we have our school picture and our classmates can sign 'Have a nice summer!' but the graduation tab is unique. It's a special memento that can be kept for years, as proof that says, "I was there! This was me when I graduated high school!"
This week, we'll be looking at the Special Graduation Issue from May 1979, which features a graduate from The News-Gazette! Can you spot the teenage version of one of our staff members?
The front page stories for May 16, 1979 were:
- Water extension lines were placed to give water to Arnolds Valley families.
- Trouble with City of Lexington's budget could mean trimming for school system.
- A new air traffic control tower was being constructed.
- W&L gets an endowed professorship from alum Robert G. Brown.
The front cover of the graduation tab for 1979 had a photo of two students and a camel. Each school had a interoduction to their section and the pages were full of graduating seniors and well wishes from local businesses.
The graduation tab is truly a wonderful keepsake for graduating seniors to look back on for years to come! If you want to see your graduation tab in a Flashback Friday, just message our Digital Media Specialist at [email protected]. If you want to congratulate a senior at any of the local high schools in the graduation tab, contact April Mikels at [email protected] or (540)463-3113. The deadline is 4 PM today!
Congrats Grads!
