Students from Lebanon High School’s Class of 1970 held a party in the late ’60s and charged a quarter for admission.

That long-ago collection inadvertently kicked off a decades-old tradition that has funded improvements for today’s students.

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Ella Howell is a reporter at The Lebanon Reporter. Email her at ella.howell@reporter.net