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9. proofreading difficult
Tue May 22, 2012, 07:12 AM
May 2012

Our old high school in Bridgeport, IL was built and opened in 1909. In 1918 a sidewalk was added in front of the main entrance. Names of the school board members and principal at that time were impressed in the concrete. I went to that school for four years and did not know that the following error or typo was present. It said "Byron R. Lewis, Princial". I learned about it in the 1990s while visiting the school. Byron was my first cousin, twice removed. Byron was prominent at Vincennes University and the University of Illinois. He founded Sigma Pi fraternity and was a noted educator, historian and genealogist. I wonder what he thought about the error.

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