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Jennifer,
it all comes to an end-but
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the best

really

We love you!

is

yet to be!

We are
Congratulations, Erica!

Mom, Dad,

Stephanie

We are so proud of your accomplishment! May
your future bring
Jesse

all

that

you deserve, and more.

M. Sheehan

Jess,

Another long journey completed! As you begin the next one and
all that follow, remember whether you are within arm's reach or
far from my embrace. 1 love you.

Love,

Mom and Dad

Mom
Anthony John Ciavarella

Melanie Marie Bolkovich

Anthonmy John Ciavarella, on
Elementary Education. You'll be a
great teacher. All our Love and Prayers for your
success in your future.

Congratulations,

Melanie,

your

May your future

Congratulations on a job well done.

be bright and

all

your dreams come

true.

Mom, Dad and

Love,

Mom, Dad,

Clint,

Sapphene and Syd

Yvonne Kenenitz
Yvonne,
Congratulations to our
graduate!

Love,

Mom and Dad

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Peter

Sara

S.

Shepard

Congratulations, Sara!

Audrey

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wonderful person that you have
become! Remember to always
follow your dreams! All our

it.

Love.

We are so proud
Mom, Dad and
Amanda

of all

you did

you have

accomplished these past four years.

With

love.

(Keep the
candles

Mom, Dad,

Family and Friends

burning!)

Misty Watts
Chipper,

Watching you grow up from
^ child to a beautiful young
one of my rewards.
I

I

woman is

am so sorry for all the hard

you had

a small

times

to endure.

love you.

Dad

Patrons

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Frank

L.

Walton

Holli A. Ritter

Congratulations, Frank.

HoUi,

Love,

Your

Your Family

family are so proud

mom and entire

of the cute

who
Brent K.

Acherman

an

little girl

has grown into

intelligent

woman.
Congratulations, Brent.

Love,

We're so proud of you!

Mom

Love,

Mom, Dad,

Da\'id, Michelle

and Kiesha

Laura Beck

Thaddeus Haas
Dear Thad,

Congratulations, Laura!

Throughout the years you have been a wonderful son
who has evoked many feeUngs and emotions— joy,

We are very proud

happiness, respect, love, and, at this time in
particular,

overwhelming "pride."

We love you.

Love,

Mom and Dad
Dad and

Mom

David Lee Welker
David,
Congratulations.

You have earned your freedom.
Move and grow with this new
understanding you have of hfe.

160

Patrons

of

all

you have accomplished
and wish you a wonderful
and happy future!

Christina Helen

To Our Daughter

Cunningham

Christina,

Through the many long hours of toil, when you
doubted that you could even go on— one more
paper, one more final, one more project, on and on-you persevered. You toughed

what

it

was

all

about. Well,

it

out, not

you did

it,

Jeffrey T. Storch

Congratulations,

even sure

Jeff!

nicely done,

fought the fight

and you have
won.
Love,

Mom and Dad

Great Job! You deserve a round of
applause! We are very proud of

you and wish you much success
and happiness.
Love,

Mom, Dad and

Stephen

Mary-Elizabeth

B.

Conrad
Congratulations, Liz!

We are proud of all
your accomplishments.

Good

luck.

We love you.
Mom, Dad and

Family

Patrons

161

Matthew

Kelly A. Piatt
Kelly,

C. Worrell

Congratulations to a "special"
son, and best of luck with those

A job well done.

"special" kids.

Love,

Love,

Mom,

Mom and Dad

Dad, Kyle, Emily and

Kaitlyn

John Machak

Stacey A. Williams
Stac,

Congratulations, John.

Remember when you'd always
next time"? Well, you did

Best wishes in everything

you

do.

of

you and wish you the best

Dad and

Love

Mom

"I'll

do

better

in

everything you do
help pay-

Now, get a job! We need some
the new house.

forever.

ing for

say,

kiddo! We're so proud

it,

ya.

Mom and

Dad

Lena Cait McGinley
Lena

Cait,

We are so proud

of

you —thank you

give us in our lives.

We love and admire you.
Mom, Dad,
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Danielle and Annie

for all the joy

you

Greatness is not measured by what a man
accomplishes, but by the opposition he has to
overcome to reach his goals. —Dorothy Height

Stacey Cardell

To our daughter, Stacey ~
shares laughter and love,

who
who

dreams and touches the world with
her

own special magic.

We are so very proud of you.
Love always.

Edward Nathaniel

Bill

You have made us proud. Continue

Speaks

Mom and Dad
to strive for

your goals.
Lots of love.

Mom,

Mia, and the rest of the family

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Daniel

Bloomsburg

You worked very hard
and perservered. We are
overwhelmed with love
and pride for you. The

Amy Hunter

world awaits

Mr. and Mrs. Alex Wukovitz
Congratulations and much love!

Mother and Dad

Kimberly Jane Hirel

Cum Laude
Delta
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Marston

UNIVERSITY

...

yours!

Kappa

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With

love,

Mom and Dad

Make

it

Eleanor

S.

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A daughter
Someone
In your

...

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hold

arms

When she's small

Congratulations
for all

And

to

your

hold

In your heart

accomplishments.

When she's
Love ya!
Mom and Dad

grown.

You have

a very special place

That no one else could fill
In our hearts
And in our lives
And you always will!

Amy Malloy

Sara Beth Scheese

We never had a doubt this day
would come. We are so proud of

Amy,

you.

"Blooming"
with

Love,

Mom, Dad,

Michael,

Amy and Phil

Pride.

Congratulations

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May all the success that
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life.

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Dad

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Dearest Becky,

We are so very proud

of

you and

all

your

Our quiet little girl has
warm, caring, sensitive,

accomplishnients.

grown

into a

intelligent,

creative

woman

Jaclyn

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student. You know where you are
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much

you.

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success and

happiness.

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Mom and Dad

Darren,

and Kevin

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sea in Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada, killing

229 passengers and crew aboard. A cockpit wiring
is

camp

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terrorist training

in Afghanistan,

and launches

a worldwide search for suspected

all

mastermind Osama bin Laden.

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people, including 12

station will be

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powered by almost an acre of solar

panels and will weigh almost one million pounds.

Hurricane Mitch
ravages parts of
Central America

and

kills

more than

10,000 people,

making

it

the

second deadliest
storm in the
region's histoi

John

Hume and

Ireland's

David Trimble, Northern

two main

political party

leaders, win the Nobel Peace Prize for
their efforts to

end the violence

that

has plagued the British province lor
three decades.

After a stop in IVIexico City in January

1999, Pope John Paul
St. Louis, Missouri,

IVIass with

II

arrives in

and celebrates

over 100,000 people

in

attendance.

In

January 1999, an earthquake that

measures 6.0 on the Richter scale
Colombia

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1,

1999, the euro debuts as the

currency in 11 European
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will

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officially

put into circulation.

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over 1,000 people.

new

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be three more years before euro coins and

cash are

killing

King Hussein of Jordan, S3, dies on

February

7,

1999, of lymphatic cancer.

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made him

the

IVIiddle East's longest-serving leader.

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NASA's Lunar Prospector finds scattered pockets of

ice

beneath the

lunar surface. The presence of water could enable astronauts to use
the

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analysis of Eastern Seaboard

weather shows

more

it

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does rain

weekends than

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during the week, an average of 22

Columbia University graduate student Elizabeth

percent more. Automobile emission

Brannon and psychology professor Herbert

patterns are the suspected cause of

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the

simple arithmetic on at least the level of a

phenomenon.

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Apple's translucent aqua-blue iMac personal

computer,
is

its first

therefore, doesn't
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consumer offering

marketed mainly

for Internet

come with a

popularity soars and

it

in years,

usage and,

disk drive.

soon becomes

available in several other colors.

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becomes the
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77,

oldest

when he

undertakes a space

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The comet Tempel-Tuttle causes a meteor storm when
will

be visible again

in fall 1999, after

which

it

it

passes by

ESm. The comet

won't reappear for another 32 years.

shuttle mission in

October, 36 years after his
first

space

retires

flight. Later,

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in

the U.S. Senate.

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T-shirt,

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conducted thread, may soon

electrically

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that the

more hours

people spend on the Internet, the more

monitor the health of soldiers, rescuers, the

depressed, stressed and lonely they

and others who are medically vulnerable.
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feel.

The USDA announces
that a 25-niillisecond
blast of

270-degree steam

applied to

meat

kills

99.99

percent of the bacteria.

This process follows
the unpopular

method

of irradiation.

Alan Shepard,
the

first

American

in space, dies

on

July 22 at the

age of 74.

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planet outside our solar system that

about 450

light

Alabama hairdresser
discovers that

human

clean

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ways

to

McCory

Philip

hair soaks up oil

from water, which prompts
investigate

NASA to

use human hair to

oil spills.

August, renowned Houston heart

surgeon

Dr.

Denton Cooley performs

open-heart surgery which
live

is

broadcast

on the America's Health Nehwork

internet

web

David Scott,

site.

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lost his left

hand

fireworks accident, receives the

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liftoff.

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4 rocket explodes 42 seconds after

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classified

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years away from Earth.

U.S.

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a

first

transplant in January

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1999. Scott has regained limited motion

satellite.
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device,

is

teenagers.
feet of

matchmaking

the latest craze with Japanese

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comes within

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whether the

users' preset interests match.

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its

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new

popular predecessors. Also

Crash's sister Coco

who

gallops along the

Great Wall of China and cruises through

now

enemy-infested waters.

available in the U.S.

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toy,

has a vocabulary of 200 words in

both English and
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being petted,

when music

its

own language,

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when

starts,

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activates online registration.

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recall of Olestra

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sleek, redesigned version

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enters the market. Despite

a

May 1998

recall for

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is

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wiring

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wildly popular

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and dragonflies are the hot

motif in the fashion world appearing
everything from clothes and bags to
hair accessories and jewelry.

For $20-30 a day, trained professionals at

dog and cat day cares
to,

feed and

pamper

will play with,

read

pets in their care.

Mr

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is

the

first

ATM

that can

cash a check - even for someone
without a bank account. The machine

"memorizes"

facial features

matches them with a

number

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social security

to verify the user's identity.

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hopes

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reducing the divorce rate,

the Florida legislature passes the

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nation's

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law requiring that high

unique equipment and deep stretching techniques,

school students be taught marital and

becomes popular with men and women.

relationship skills.

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Malone and Dennis Rodman

face off in a World

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popular board game's 50th anniversary in October

by playing

in London's

letter tiles the size of

Wembley Stadium using

dining tables.

Championship

Wrestling tag-team match. The

event pits

Rodman and Hollywood

Hulk Hogan against Malone and

Diamond

Dallas Page.

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to

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movie Free

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fate of Smits'

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when

a heart transplant

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Institute rates the

top 100 movies of the 20th century. The top
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Star Wars: Episode

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in the breed.

Phantom Menace and many leave without

1,

staying to watch the main attraction. The

prequel to the wildly popular Star Wars
trilogy

opens

in

May 1999.

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Jeff

Gordon wins the NASCAR Winston Cup
second year

a row. Gordon, 27,

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On January

4, 1999,

"Monday Night

Tennessee beats Florida State University

23-16 at the Fiesta Bowl in Arizona to win the national championship.
It is

the

first

year of the Bowl Championship Series, created to ensure

that the highest ranked college teams nationally

meet

in

a bowl

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Final Four

playoff

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and NFL

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Flamboyant sprinter Florence
Griffith

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Joyner (FloJo),

triple

Defending champion Detroit Red Wings win the 1998 Stanley

gold medalist at the 1988

Cup championship, beating the Washington

Olympics, dies at age 38 in her

Capitals 4-1.

Defenseman Vladimir Konstantinov, severely
accident after last year's Stanley

injured in a car

Cup win, joins

the celebration.

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epileptic seizure.

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In July,

France beats Brazil 3-0

World Cup soccer

title.

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win

its first

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Champs-Elysees and injures 60 people.

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On September 13,
Sammy Sosa of the
Chicago Cubs also
breaks Roger Maris'
record with his single-

season 62nd home run.

Sosa ends the season

home

with 66

runs.

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On September

20, Cal Ripken

ends his 16-year streak

of

Jr.

2,632

games played

consecutive baseball

by withdrawing himself from the
Baltimore lineup for that night.

NBA owners impose

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The defending champion

a lockout on July

Denver Broncos meet the

basketball season to be

upstart Atlanta Falcons

labor dispute

at

Super Bowl XXXIII

is settled

lost.

The

on January 6.

in

Miami. The Broncos

Tennis star Pete Sampras wins his

win 34-19.

Golfer Casey Martin,

1

that causes almost half the '98 -'99

who

suffers from a circulatory

Wimbledon

title

world's No.

1

player for a record sixth

straight year, breaking

mark

fifth

and remains the

for consecutive

Jimmy

Connors'

seasons on

top.

disorder in his right leg,

wins a lawsuit allowing him
to use

and

a cart during

Nilce golf

PGA

tournaments.

The NFL season

is

plagued with

controversial and Incorrect calls.
Instant replay is nut reinstated, but

coin toss procedures are Implemented.

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Miss Virginia Nicole Joiinson
Atlantic City.

The 24-year-old

is

crowned Miss America 1999

diabetic wejirs an insulin

in

pump on

her hip and plans to spotlight diabetes awareness during her reign.

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Seventeen-year-old Katie Hnida

named

Homecoming Queen
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is

Chatfield Senior High School's

as well as starting

Fifly-six-year-old Linda McCartney,

kicker for the varsity football team. The

photographer, animal rights

No. 1-ranked kicker in the state of
activist

and wife of famed Beatle
Colorado, Hnida hopes to play Division

I

Paul, dies of breast cancer on

college football next year.
April 17, 1998.

NBC's "Ne\wRadio"
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and former

After dropping out of the

star

third grade in 1902 to

"Saturday Night Live"

care for her

1 1

younger

cast

member

Phil

Hartman dies from

nanny

siblings, retired

and housekeeper

a gunshot wound

Eugenie Garside

inflicted by his wife

finally receives

her

May

in

1998.

high school diploma
at

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age 98.

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Hirofumi "The Tokyo Terror"

Nakajima

Canadian Tobin Belanger escorts a
(right), reigning world

mannequin

hot dog eating champion, eats 19
AP Pholo/NBr Photo, Dave Bjerke

hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes
to

win the annual Nathan's

Famous Fourth

of July Hot

school prom.

picks out her

dress and corsage and arrives

Dog

;

in

Beloved puppeteer Shari Lewis
dies of cancer on August 2.

Eating Contest.

to his higti

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a limousine.

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Her creations include her

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trademark Lamb Chop, Hush

Puppy and Charlie Horse.

Minnesotan David Weinlick
advertises" for a wife and chooses

pharmacy student Elizabeth Runze
from 23 hopefuls who travel
Mall of America

in

to the

Minneapolis

for

the event. Runze and Weinlick marry
the

same

day.

Olympic gold medalist
figure skater Tara
Lipinski takes part in

an anti-tobacco

rally

with area school
children on Capitol
Hill in

May

rally is

sponsored by

the

1998.

Campaign

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for

1999 Jostens

Tobacco-Free Kids.

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