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CEDAR RAPIDS — The first 10th-graders to attend Washington High School in 1957 are celebrating their 65th high school reunion this month.

Members of the class of 1960 — who are about 83 years old now — are marking the milestone Sept. 21-22 with guided tours of area schools and a banquet. The school did not include 9th grade at the time.

Washington High’s first students laid the foundation for years-long traditions, said Steve Sovern, president of the Class of 1960. They wrote the school’s inaugural student government charter, school fight song and alma mater. They also established the school’s newspaper — The Surveyor — which continues publishing today, and they chose the school’s colors of r

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