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Archive Home > 2004 > January > 18 > Veteran gets diploma at last

Veteran gets diploma at last

By Ernestine Bousquet / The Bulletin
January 18, 2004

In her 10 years as a Medford school board member, Peggy Penland has handed out hundreds of high school diplomas to graduating students.

But none of them meant as much as the one she recently gave to her 70-year-old father, Rex Orcutt.

He left Crook County High School as a sophomore in 1951 to....

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