Article You Must Read: A Night to Remember

By Dr. Chuck Kelley

Looking back, I suppose it was my first public “Night to Remember,” the kind of night when you carry what happened with you for the rest of your days. The occasion was the formal end of my childhood and my life at home. The people I grew up with, played sports with, and went to school and church with for years gathered with our friends and family for the last time in the Beaumont Civic Center for the graduation ceremony of Forest Park High School, Class of 1970, The unknown future awaited. None of us would ever be able to come back to life as it was that night. Joy, anticipation, uncertainty, apprehension, relief, pride and so much more filled the largest indoor space in Beaumont. One of life’s biggest transition points was here.

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