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Article: Remembering Charleroi graduate Lisa Kirk
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- December 21, 2008
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Anyone skeptical about Charleroi Area High School's claim to
Broadway and nightclub star Lisa Kirk as one of their own needn't
look any further than the Charleroi Area Historical Society for
validation.
"There she is, right next to William David Johns," Nikki Sheppick
of the Historical Society said as she pointed to pictures on page 25
of the 1943 Cougar Memoir yearbook. "That's the year she graduated
from Charleroi High School."
Sheppick, editor of the Historical Society's newsletter, also
showed a visitor to the organization's headquarters at the John K.
Tener Library a yearbook picture of Kirk with the Forensic Club. And
she produced a thick folder of other information solidifying Kirk's ...