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The 2022 scholarship recipients are, from left, Alexis Melcher, Virginia Mooreman Moore Scholarship; and Joseph Arroy and Danniella Oliva, Jackson David Weaver Scholarship.
The 55th Lind Alumni Banquet Lind Class of 2011 attendees are, from left, Alexis Fowles Wistisen and Traven Smith.
The 55th Lind Alumni Banquet Lind Class of 2012 attendees are, from left, Michaela Doyle Nichols, Salvador Huitron, Derrick Laird, Mackenzie Ellis, Andrea Bennett Steinmetz and Bryson O'Neill.
The 55th Lind Alumni Banquet Lind Class of 1961 attendees are, from left, Barbara DeVore Ellis, Keith Deaton, Robert "Bob" Gross and Joyce Lobe Presto.
The 55th Lind Alumni Banquet Lind Class of 1971 attendees are, from left, front row, Sandra Snouffer Leonette and Bonnie Taylor Gilbert; and back row, Grant Miller, Jim Abney, Greg Reimer and Alan Strohmaier.
The 55th Lind Alumni Banquet Lind Class of 1972 attendees are, from left, Linda Lutz Powers, Janice Tilton Wahl, Debbie Abney Labes, Cindy Englehart and Julie Echhardt Boruff; and back row, Cheryl Kurkowski Haase, Frank Bren, John Kulm and Dale Stevenson.
The 55th Lind Alumni Banquet Lind Class of 1981 attendees are, from left, Vernon Wagner, William "Bill" Fode, Carol Hughlett Curry, Randy Pouley, Heidi Hemmerling Lowe and Debbie Heil Sitton.
The 55th Lind Alumni Banquet Lind Class of 1982 attendees are, from left, Susan Bischoff Fode and Gloria "Dee" Chandler; back row, Daniel Montejano, Lisa Klemmer Kelly Doug Kelly, Donald Fowles, Lisa Westfeldt Gfeller and Tim Smith.
The 55th Lind Alumni Banquet Lind Class of 1990 attendees are, from left, Yvette "Caro" Meyer Foley and Susan Rott.
LIND - Multiple classes of Lind and Lind-Ritzville high schools graduates were honored during a gala celebration Saturday night, May 7, in the current Lind-Ritzville Middle School.
The 55th annual Alumni Banquet took place in the gymnasium.
It was the first alumni celebration since 2019; Gov. Jay Inslee's coronavirus shutdown orders upended events in 2020 and 2021.
Keith Deaton served as the emcee for the event and Emmy Bouwman Erickson provided the invocation and dinner prayer.
Reid Weaver was the guest speaker.
Weaver and Deaton both presented scholarships to graduating seniors, as well.
Honored classes at the celebration were 1960-62, 1970-72, 1980-82, 1990-92, 2000-02 and 2010-12.
More than 100 people attended the event in the gymnasium of the school - the former Lind High School.
While most of the program honored alumni, it also honored five graduating seniors from Lind.
Alexis Melcher was awarded the Virgina Moorman Moore Scholarship. Moore was a 1932 Lind High School graduate and Salutatorian who passed away May 17, 2008, after a lifetime teaching children.
Kaylee Monroe and Amy Anderson received the Lind Alumni Scholarship.
Joseph Arroyo and Daniella Oliva each received the Jackson David Weaver Scholarship.
The $1,000 Weaver Scholarship honors students who are always striving to improve, and by doing so, inspire others.
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