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Prof. Savage was followed in 1905 by Prof. E. W. Fellows, a graduate of Grinnell college and who had many years experience in school work. He came to Denison from Clarion, Iowa and through his thoroughness, his attention to detail, and his genius for organization, he has been enabled to realize for the schools of Denison many of those things which had been but dreams and long- ings with his predecessors.
In 1906 the Manual Training department became a fact as well as a name and Prof. Jacob Johnson was selected to head this department. Mr. Johnson
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has been able to make this the most popular branch of the school work. It has now passed the stage of experiment and faddism and would no more be dropped from the course of study than grammar or arithmetic. Under his direction many of the youths have developed remarkable ingenuity and many of the finished products are worthy of an experienced cabinet maker. The manual training de- partment is located in the first floor of the high school building. There are 16 work benches, all equipped with requisite tools for the individual pupil, and all necessary tools for the general work of the department have been provided. So far the work has been confined to courses in drawing and wood work. From the outset the boys are allowed to work on objects of value which they intend to complete. This induces accuracy and neatness and painstaking care. All boys in the Denison schools have this instruction from the 4th grade to the 8th. In the high school it is optional, but its popularity is shown by the fact that about 50 per cent of the boy students take this work. From the rough unfinished lum- ber are made foot stools, library tables, dressers, piano benches, and many other articles.
In 1909 the department of Domestic Science was established. This embraces courses in sewing and cooking. Girls of the 7th and 8th grade take this work. Though comparatively new this course has proven very popular. Miss Grace Warner, now Mrs. J. E. Shaw Van, having been a very efficient teacher with whom the schools were loath to part. The credit for the strength of our present high school is largely due to Principal C. E. Humphreys, who has been the prin- cipal for the last 6 years and who is dearly beloved by all his pupils. The enroll- ment of the Denison schools, for the years 1910-1I was 746. There are 15 grade rooms and the high school. Twenty-five teachers are employed and we are pleased to state that the teaching corps has maintained a very high standard throughout. Aside from the regular grades and high schools there are the kin- dergarten, manual training and the domestic science departments already men- tioned and the music department under the management of Miss Beatrice Lally.
At the commencement exercises in June, 1911, Mr. R. Knaul, a veteran mem- ber of the school board presented the diplomas to the graduates. In so doing he gave some facts and statistics in connection with the schools which are of in- terest. Mr. Knaui said that this was the 25th graduating class and the 12th to graduate from the 4 year course. The first class to graduate was in 1886 and it contained but 5 members. The smallest class was in 1891 and contained but 2 members. The first six classes totalled 22, while for the last six years the total number of graduates has been 133, an average of a little more than 22 per year. The last three classes have averaged nearly 24. In 1901 there were but three teachers employed in the high school including the superintendent. There are now six teachers who give their entire time to the high school and three special teachers who give about one-third of their time to high school work. Twelve years ago the first class graduated from a four year course with 32 credits. The later high school courses now afford a maximum of 49 credits so that a pupil to take all the work afforded could make the regulation number of 8 credits per year for 6 years and then lack one credit of having completed the list.
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Much attention has been paid to scientific courses and the laboratories and apparatus are complete and satisfactory for the scope of the work undertaken. The school library has already been mentioned and, in connection, the splendid resources of the Carnegie library are at the command of the student and are freely used. The schools are lacking in provisions for physical culture, but the attention of the board has been directed to this for some time and it is alto- gether probable that a good gymnasium will be the next feature added to our schools. We believe that Denison has every reason to be proud of its public school system and that the people of the district have received full value for the large amounts which they have expended without hesitancy and without com- plaint. The personnel of the board of education is as follows : Albert Helsley, President : N. L. Hunt, R. Knaul, B. Y. Nicholson, Carl F. Kuehnle. Mr. George A. Richardson was secretary of the board for many years but following his demise, Mr. W. C. Rollins was selected for that position. Many of the teachers have been engaged in the work here for a long series of years and a large num- ber are themselves alumni of the Denison school. The senior teacher in point of service is Miss Emma Raine, who was a graduate of the class of 1886, and who, with the exception of one year, has been a member of the teaching force con- tinuously since that time. The graduates from the Denison schools are admitted without examination to the state university and to the standard universities of the United States. Each year an increasing number of the youth of the county are taking advantage of the educational facilities which Denison affords and our excellent schools have done as much as any other thing to induce the most desir- able people to locate in Denison permanently. The following is the list of those who have graduated from the Denison schools since 1886.
ALUMNI DENISON HIGH SCHOOL.
Class of '86-F. W. Meyers, Emma Raine, Mattie Moloney, Lillie Plimpton, *Fannie Fulick.
Class of '87-William Plimpton, Leon Cassady, Mattie Miles, Mary Wrigley, Melvin Smith.
Class of '88-Lois Plimpton, *Clara Rumsey, *Harry Shillington.
Class of '89-Robert P. Plimpton, Jettie Pauline Wilkinson, W. C. Cramer, Martha Hird.
Class of '90 -* Harry P. Wilson, Elva D. Bond, Gertrude Gulick-Voss.
Class of '91-Gordon Gary, Olive Gillmor.
Class of '92-Gertrude O. French, Lillian McWilliams, Marcelia L. Barrett, Maggie Raine-Christensen, Sarah J. Temple, Edith Clouser-Garrison, J. K. Sewell, Dollie Romans-Bradley, Artie M. Potter, Edna B. Stephens, James B. Barrett.
Class of '93-Hope V. Smith, Florence E. Wygant, Anna E. Quaid, Hattie A. Weeks-Garrison, Louise A. Carter-Seymour, Albert E. Miller, Mark F. Wright.
Class of '94-Maurice A. Schofield, Sadie Kinnan, George J. Lass, Hattie M. Schofield, Kate A. Goodrich, Edgar Jackson, Maude A. Hall, Charles E. Rob- inault, Birdie M. Raine-Jordan, Wallace D. Huff.
* Deceased.
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Class of '95-Mertie Iseminger, Hattie Rowland, Gaylord Weeks, Frona Kinnan, Grace Baer, Edith Gillmor, Victor Danielson, Abbe McHenry, Andrew Randall, John Klinker, Harvey Volkmann.
Class of '96-Louie Hensen, Kate Kelly, Jennie Austin, Doty Flack, James Luney, Iva Smith, Maude Bryan, Edward Gable, Minnie Balle, Minnie Marshall.
Class of '97-Grace Aylsworth, Orpha Marshall, Mabel McAhren, Allie Greene, Mearl Gable, Harry Carpenter, Harry Wygant, Francis Gable, Paul Hensen, Susie Craft.
Class of '98-Edmund Clayton, Blaine Hunt, John Romans, Emma Clayton, Frances French, Minnie Kelly, Faith Pierce, Eugene Mueller, Chester Potter, Nettie Chapin, Olga Mueller, Anna Warbasse, Calla Richards, Addie Randall.
Class of '99-
Class of 1900-Ralph Cassaday, Robert Ewall, Fay Marshall, George Morris, Chester Potter, Ray Randall, James Walker, Frank Young, Ferdinand Ranniger, Fannie Hayes, Mae Hayes, Florence Kirkup, Grace Raine, Allie Sewell, Grace Temple, Mary Walker, Ethel Williams, Sara Watson.
Class of 1901-Edna Ione Hoagland, Effie Lucretia Myers, Florence Mar- garet Odell, Willetta Georgia Strahan, Harold Glenn Van Winkle, Horace Whit- ing Gregory, Carrie May Morris, Carrabel Chapin, Mary Effie Norris, Irene Grace Garber, Isabell Edna Marshall, Edna Lucy Gilbreath, Harry Renard Mor- ris, Myrtle Frost M'Cormick, Luella Valetta Cole, Ethel Lou Gulick, Charles Hugh Gable.
Class of 1902-Garnett Romans, Carrie Elcenia Klick, Mildred Ethel Bowen, Foster Harris Pierce, Traffer G. Walker, Minnie Anetta Craft, Alma Olinda Olson, Emma Marguerite Carter, Clifford Alonzo Randall, Chester Arthur Orr,
Class of 1903-Jennie Leora Luney, Helen Lucile Hayes, Mary Annette Miller, Helen Rachel Garber, Jennie Isabel Brown, Lour Clarence Sage, Lillian Marie Miller, Lorenz Lorenzen, Anna Babette Schlumberger, Beatrice Martha Kirkup, Samuel Russel Cole, Ruby. Arelene Osborne, Florence Mary Wear- mouth, Albert Henry Riepen, Edith Myrtle Kelly, Cora Pauline Kuhl, Frederick Herman Soehl, Clifford Charles Merrill, Townsend Adelbert Pearson.
Class of 1904-Francis Myrtle Inghram, Hilda Louise Brodersen, Florence Susan Hutchinson, Mamie Edith Bell, Jenna Rood Strahan, Myrtle Annette Mc- Ahren, Dollie Elizabeth C. Faul, August Lenzen Moeller, Mabel Adel Smith, Marian Force Scriver, Marie Florence Shaw Van, Rose Marie Clarke, Valerie Gertrude Matthews, Aubra Alberta Walker, John Temple Kirkup.
Class of 1905-Sarah Edith Staley, Mary Alice Silletto, Garnet Lucile Nor- man, Katherine Millicent Silletto, Edna Vera Raine, Anna Margaret Jurgens, Josephine M. Leonard, Mary Cecelia Burch, Effie Laura Kuhl, Mary Elizabeth Luney, Leona Elsie Grantz, Marie Eugenia Naeve, Alfred Carl Rohwer, Her- man Frederick Woock, John Wilfred Moloney, Herbert Alton Thew, Robert F. Romans, Carl Brian Richardson.
Class of 1906-Lillian Elizabeth Aebischer, Helen Louise Burch, Margaret Cecelia Clarke, Jetta Lillian Gilbreath, Harriet Lillian Hall, Anna Myrtle Heiden, Anna Elizabeth Jacobson, Lydia Mae Klick, Edna Hazel Laub, Mabel Julia Merrill, Marie Erma Rath, Clara Strahan, Alexander Aebischer, Jose- phine J. Collins, George B. Danielson, Katherine Marie Henry, Frank H. Lally,
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Charles Davie Luney, Florence Ellen Muir, Hugh Blaine Nash, Stewart Alex- ander Scriver, Ethel Effie Orr, Leslie Frederick Reiter, Loretta Ilda Van Ness.
Class of 1907-Florence Elizabeth Baker, Grace Marie Bamford, Birdie Olive Berg, Pearl Edna Gary, Mary Elizabeth Giss, Williams Benjamin Hard- ing, Mabel Charlotte Horton, Ethel Grace Hunter, Anna Mabel Kelly, Edmund Andrew Luney Edith Mill, Allie Belle Morris, Janet Marie Muir, Hazel Roe Nash, Lewis Henry Redenbaugh, Margaret Brunhilda Rohwer, Grace Mildred Schlumberger, Emily Agnes Schneckloth, George McHenry Seeman, *Clarence David Schooley, Albert Weiss.
Class of 1908-Agatha Helen Brummer, Emma Mae Chrestensen, James Col- lins, Alys Lee Detrick, Malcolm Heiden, Leona Martha Henry, Erma Hilde- brandt, Blanid Marie Lally, Margaret Mae Minter, Martha Caroline Otto, Laura Ida Pearson, Rowland Frederick Philbroo, Oliver Weston Saul, Clara Ethel- wynne Scriver, John Albert Silletto, Gladys Elizabeth Tucker.
Class of 1909-Hedwig Fredricka Brodersen, Carl C. Caswell, Sylvia A. A. Cochran, Edwin Arthur Cushman, Frank J. Enright, Frieda Fastje, Spencer A. Heiden, Edith Jacobson, Lydia Belle Kuehnle, Frank R. Menagh, Erma G. Naeve, Ward T. North, Nellie Grant Orr, Frank E. Ransom, Guy E. Romans, Alice Romans, Warren B. Romans, Amanda A. E. Schnoor, Eva R. Senseney, Luman P. Sewell, Katharine Sims, Della Verne Stocking, Oscar W. Strahan, Irene Louise Van Ness, Clara Louise Van Tull, Pearl J. Wilson.
Class of 1910-Alfred Howard Bowen, Mary Grace Coan, Nellie B. Collins, Alva William Dannels, Frankie Ernestine Faul, Amelia Emma Haskins, Mar- guerite Mary Haugh, Anne Sarachon Hooley, Alice Menita James, Inez Clare Lally, Winifred Weld Wright, Jessie May Luney, Fred William Lyon, Laura Elsie Marshall, Elsie Marie McAndrews, Margaret Miller McHenry, John Al- den Moeller, Ruby Winifred Norman, Pearle Estelle Rank, Alice Ellen Saul, George W. Schelm, Mabel Ray Tuper, Elizabeth Sybil Woodruff.
Class of 1911-Veronica Ellen Adams, Clarence Bell, Ruth Vera Cole, Rob- ert Lyman Cochran, Ethel Henrietta Cook, Clara Ann Cecilia Connor, Emma May Connor, Clara Cecilia Claudine Curry, Jessie Frances Hayes, Nellie Gladys Hoffman, Charles Warren Helsley, Nelson Edwin Lafferty, Eunice Caroline E. Meyers, Julia Amelia Nordholm, Lillian Quade, Florence Rice, Pearle Ina Rich- ardson, Magdalena Augusta Rachwitz, Hilda Wilhelmina Rath, Charles James Saul, Marjorie Sims, Mildred Audrey Terry, Emma Fern Wells, Dorothy Eliza- beth Wilcox.
THE VAIL SCHOOL.
Late in the autumn of 1871 the school in Vail was opened by Miss Mary DeWolf (Mrs. A. L. Strong) in a small frame structure that stood on the hill where the large schoolhouse now stands. She taught one year. The winter term of 1872-3 was taught by her brother, John H. DeWolf.
As near as can be determined, William Bennett was the first director. He was followed by Dr. James DeWolf, and at the spring election in 1873, DeWolf was superseded by Geo. H. L. Head. At the meeting of the electors that year it was voted to ask the district township for $800.00 to build a larger school-
CARNIVAL AUG 1B17
FLOOD AT VAIL. AUGUST 15. 1910
NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL, VAIL
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house. The records of the sub-district from 1873 to 1877 are lost, but the house was built probably in 1874.
Miss Belle Moore taught the summer school in 1873 and Freeman Knowles the winter term. From April, 1874, to April, 1875, C. A. Morrill was the teacher. Both Knowles and Morrill were painstaking and successful teachers and the Vail school took a high place among the schools of the county.
In March, 1875, J. S. Riggs was chosen director and Ed. M. Ainsworth was invited to take charge of the school. Although the pay was only $35.00 per month, he accepted and entered at once upon his duties. The next seven years constitute a notable period in the history of the Vail school. Himself a pioneer, Ainsworth understood pioneer conditions and knew how to meet them. His ex- acting discipline, his skill in the class room and his untiring energy together with the enthusiastic support of the patrons gave the school a wide popularity and brought many pupils from surrounding country and even from a distance.
The rapidly increasing population of the village made another teacher nec- essary and Miss Ella Hovery was installed as assistant in January, 1876. Steps were at once taken to erect a more commodious schoolhouse and the contract for a four room building was let to J. L. McClellan in 1877 for about $3,000. The old house was sold to Mr. Wagner and moved down to the main street of the village where it still stands. It is now occupied by G. E. Dingman as a drug store.
A course of study, formulated by Ainsworth, was adopted about 1876. It was modeled after that of Denison, adopted in 1873 and was followed in the main by the successive principals down to 1888.
In March, 1879. J. P. Fitch was elected director and a few weeks later, when the district became independent, he was elected president of the newly chosen board. The other members were Dr. Ed Darling and L. P. Mooney. G. A. W. Davison of the Observer was secretary and E. B. Bannister treasurer, under the new organization. Mr. Fitch served continuously on the board for the next seventeen years, the greater part of the time as its president. No better school man than J. P. Fitch ever served on a school board in Iowa. His excellent judgment and ceaseless vigilance went far toward maintaining the high standing and popularity of the Vail school for many years. He kept in close touch with the teachers and was ever their faithful friend and adviser.
In 1881 all four rooms in the schoolhouse were in use. In November of that year Ainsworth was elected county superintendent but did not resign from the school until the next May. William Stevens was elected to the principalship for the remaining two months of the year. June 21 the board endeavored to elect a principal for the ensuing year but without success. Sixty ballots were taken all resulting in a tie between William Stevens and G. D. Jones. Pres. Fitch, Dr. James DeWolf and James McAndrews supporting G. D. Jones ; C. H. Britton, James B. King and P. J. Casey voting for Stevens. Two other meet- ings gave like results. At the suggestion of Pres. Fitch, efforts were made to have the county superintendent select the principal, but he declined to interfere. The State superintendent recommended R. M. Briggs of Floyd, and after sev- eral meetings, he was elected, but Briggs in the meantime had accepted a posi- tion elsewhere and declined to come to Vail. This opened up the whole matter
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again and the board decided to refer the choice to the patrons of the school. A paper was accordingly circulated calling for an expression of the wishes of the people and Stevens having a large majority of votes was elected Aug. 14, 1882, and given a salary of $80.00 per month. His assistants were Miss Abbie Bailey, grammar room, Miss Eva Gilman, intermediate, Miss Lizzie Platt, primary. Miss Nellie McErlaine, a ninth grade pupil, was assistant in the grammar room a portion of the time. In 1883 the opposition to Stevens was again active and after several tie votes, he lost his position the second time to a nominee of the state superintendent, Miss F. M. Lawrence, of Des Moines.
Miss Lawrence held the position but one year, being succeeded in 1884 by L. L. Lowery, and he in turn was displaced in 1885 by the former popular prin- cipal, E. M. Ainsworth. But the law had more attraction for Ainsworth than the school room, and at the June election, 1886, the board placed Geo. W. Hogle, a former pupil, at the head of the school. In five years the school had been under the management of as many different principals and comparatively little had been accomplished in the higher grades. Hogle's vigorous administration of nearly two years did much toward restoring the old time prestige of the school. He resigned in March, 1888, to enter the profession of medicine and S. T. Mears of Laporte City was chosen to finish the year.
Mears' administration lasted three years and was eminently successful. He thoroughly reorganized the school and gave it a new and modern course of study. In 1891, he graduated the first class, an event that greatly aroused the enthusiasm of the school and patrons. Much to the regret of the board, Mears declined a reelection and M. A. Zollinger was chosen his successor, May, 1891.
Zollinger introduced German into the course of study and taught a class in that language during the year with marked success. He graduated a fine class at the end of the year.
The principalship was now tendered to Z. T. Hawk, of Denison, with the understanding that he should reorganize the school, draft a set of rules and regu- lations for its government and prepare a complete course of study for all the grades. The new schedule of work was adopted by the board, Feb. 1893. The grade teachers, 1892-3, were Miss Margaret Regan, primary ; Miss Annie Quirk, intermediate ; Mrs. Emma W. Hawk, grammar. This administration lasted eight years with various changes of grade teachers. Miss Regan's first service in the primary department dated as far back as 1883, when she taught a term or two under the supervision of Stevens. She reentered the same grade under the super- vision of Mears and continued in the school until 1897. Miss Emily McAndrews taught the first grades, 1897-8 and was followed by Miss Kate Connor who re- mained in the primary room a number of years. A very large number of the grown up boys and girls of Vail look back with pleasure and gratitude to the time when Maggie Regan or Kate Connor guided their first uncertain steps in the wonderful world of school.
In the intermediate grades Miss Quirk taught one year 1892-3, Miss Susie Flynn, 1893-4, Miss Nellie V. Haas (Mrs. Wm. Watson) 1894-8, Miss Alice R. Miley 1898-1900. These teachers all gave the school most loyal and efficient serv- ice. Mrs. Hawk remained in charge of the grammar department for eight years,
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sending into the high school, year after year, classes so thoroughly trained in habits of independent thought and investigation that they mastered the more difficult work of the high school with ease, finishing the course with great credit to them- selves and the school.
Mrs. E. T. Ryan was elected director of music in 1893 and taught one year. Miss Margaret Short assumed the duties of director in 1894 and taught until 1900 with the exception of one year. Miss Stella Fitzsimmons was director 1900. Miss Short again from 1901 to 1905. Since that time the school has been with- out a special teacher of music, the regular teachers giving instruction in that branch. Mr. Hawk retired from school work in 1900 and was succeeded by S. W. Myers. A long and severe illness incapacitated him from work and William McGuire finished the year for him. B. M. Taylor was at the head of the school two years, 1901-3. F. F Gordon served from 1903-7. He drafted an elaborate course of study and manual for the guidance of the teachers. It provided for the teaching of Latin and gave the high school four years, but the work of the fourth year so far has been omitted and the classes graduated at the end of the third year. It is proposed to add the fourth year when the school moves into the new house now being erected.
In 1906 an additional primary teacher was employed and a room rented for the school in the business section of the town.
Gordon was succeeded as principal by E. L. Ferrier, 1907-09, and he by J. M. Fouts, the present incumbent. In 1909 an assistant principal was employed and the principal given more opportunity for supervision.
The school having outgrown its present quarters the board early in 1910 de- cided to lay before the people the proposition to bond the district for the purpose of purchasing more extended grounds and building a larger and more modern house. At the first election the proposition was lost, but later in the summer at a second trial it was carried by a safe majority, its success being due mainly to the efforts of the women who made a vigorous campaign for larger play grounds and better school rooms. Beautiful grounds have been purchased in the north- western part of the village and the house will be ready for occupation by the first of September. G. M. Zitteral of Fort Dodge has contracted to build it for $15,500. G. M. Badley of Carroll has contracted to install a steam heating plant with 45 horse power boiler for $3,200. Change of plans necessitated by the in- troduction of steam heat will cost $500 more. The district is bonded for $9,000. The house is built of brick and is two stories in height with basement for heating plant. It contains seven class rooms, superintendent's office, waiting room, lab- oratory, library, teachers' room, and the usual cloak rooms. Messrs. Barber and Glenn of Denison are the architects.
The school is well supplied with apparatus and possesses a library that is the pride of the town. It consists of nearly 700 volumes that have been selected with great care by various principals, assisted by committees of the board. The first selection of books was made in 1882, by Ainsworth and Pres. Fitch.
In the list of grade teachers in the Vail school are to be found the names of many teachers who were exceptionally well qualified for the positions they held. Besides those already mentioned the following named teachers were at various
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times connected with the school: Miss Eva Gilman (Mrs. Geo. DeWolf), Miss Mollie Snodgrass, Miss Nellie Wightman, Miss Lizzie Platt, Miss L. M. Bur- linghame, Miss Abbie Bailey, Miss Edith Shirtcliffe, Miss Anna DeWolf, Miss Anna Beck, Miss Emma Loechner, Miss F. M. Snook.
The teachers of the next eight years have already been mentioned. In the new century were W. A. McGuire, now president of the board, Miss Claussn, Miss Clara Dobler, who has taught a number of years in the intermediate, Miss Evelyn Sherwood, several years in the primary, and Miss Esther Ringold, also primary. The teachers the present year are : Superintendent, J. M. Fouts, salary $100.00 per month ; Principal of high school, Miss Grace Wilcox, salary $50.00 per month ; grammar department, Miss Nan Mitchell, salary $50.00 per month; second intermediate, Miss Clara Dobler, salary $50.00 per month; first in- termediate, Miss Elsie Hunt, salary $50.00 per month; primary, Miss Esther Ringold, salary $50.00 per month.
The list of the names of the directors reads like a directory of the represen- tative and leading citizens of the town. As before noted J. P. Fitch served many years as president, Dr. James DeWolf always a leader in good works also served as president. Other directors in the '8os were O. S. Retan, Josiah Mc- Henry, E. B. Bannister, G. W. Nicholson, A. A. Leachey, T. J. Hoffman, and W. W. VanVleck. In the '90s were M. J. Casey, E. T. Ryan, C. H. Westbrook, John Hickey, John Cranny, Henry Gronemeyer, Adam Short, Clark E. White, Thomas Adams, James McAndrews, C. Paine, Chas. M. Dugan, Dr. Ed. Darling.
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