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Foundation Donors to Send Students to NYC to Attend ‘The Outsiders’ Broadway Musical
After the Broadway cast visited Rogers drama classes, donors raised the money to send eight students to New York to see the show.
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A 290% jump in enrollment left the band short of instruments. Two alumni families answered with $16,000 of new flutes, clarinets, trumpets and trombones.
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After the Broadway cast visited Rogers drama classes, donors raised the money to send eight students to New York to see the show.
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A family baseball film with Will Rogers and Native American characters, to be filmed in part at Will Rogers High School.
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Cindy Largent-Williams, a Rogers dean and assistant principal since 2017, steps up to lead Will Rogers College Middle and High School.
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The grand opening of the new Will Rogers High School Athletic Stadium, planned for September 2020, was postponed by the pandemic.
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A 1955 graduate’s $500,000 gift now sends up to $50,000 a year to Will Rogers for the things the school budget cannot cover.
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Six Ropers were inducted into the Will Rogers High School Hall of Fame on March 26, 2015.
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Seven Ropers joined the Will Rogers High School Hall of Fame on November 4, 2013, in ceremonies at the school.
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