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• The lifetime impact of my high school meeting with a musical genius - The Chestnut Hill Local

  By Len Lear Verified| Chestnut Hill Local Verified I still clearly recall my first day in the lunchroom at Central High School in February of 1954. (Central had two graduating classes back then, one in January and one in June, so a new class started in February.) At the long table next to ours, one of the students eating lunch was an African American student in a wheelchair. Naturally, I was curious because he was the only student out of many hundreds in the dining room who was in a wheelchair.

  By Len Lear Verified · Chestnut Hill Local

  Apr. 17, 2025

• Time capsule in cursive: SCH student discovers a jazz pioneer in vintage letters - The Chestnut Hill Local

  By Len Lear Verified| Chestnut Hill Local Verified Spring education guidePosted 4/17/25It was in a hidden corner of a Lansdale antique store that 14-year-old Ali Norcini stumbled upon a cardboard box covered in what appeared to be decades of dust. Inside were 117 handwritten letters and postcards, their yellowed pages filled with elegant cursive—a script the Springside Chestnut Hill Academy eighth-grader couldn't fully decipher.

  By Len Lear Verified · Chestnut Hill Local

  Apr. 17, 2025

• The lifetime impact of my high school meeting with a musical genius - The Chestnut Hill Local

  By Len Lear Verified| Chestnut Hill Local Verified I still clearly recall my first day in the lunchroom at Central High School in February of 1954. (Central had two graduating classes back then, one in January and one in June, so a new class started in February.) At the long table next to ours, one of the students eating lunch was an African American student in a wheelchair. Naturally, I was curious because he was the only student out of many hundreds in the dining room who was in a wheelchair.

  By Len Lear Verified · Chestnut Hill Local

  Apr. 17, 2025

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