‘Keep in Touch’: The Dispatch honors classes past and present

FROM THE ARCHIVES, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1986
HONOR GRADUATES Brad Sharp (left), Kerry Thuett (second from left) and fellow Post High School honor graduates posed ahead of the 1986 commencement ceremony in Post. Sharp was named valedictorian and Thuett served as salutatorian for the graduating class. | POST DISPATCH
HONOR GRADUATES Brad Sharp (left), Kerry Thuett (second from left) and fellow Post High School honor graduates posed ahead of the 1986 commencement ceremony in Post. Sharp was named valedictorian and Thuett served as salutatorian for the graduating class. | POST DISPATCH

STEPHANIE ALLEN | POST DISPATCH In 1986, Post High School graduated 58 seniors, while Southland High School’s graduating class included seven students, as The Post Dispatch honored both classes in a special graduation edition forty years ago.

“Well, the big day has finally arrived,” the newspaper prockaimed, reminding graduates they were preparing to “leave the nest” and enter a new phase of life.

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