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Marion High School has produced many talented students. According to available records, the first student to graduate from Marion High School was Alice Davis, in the year 1877. Later in life, she was employed as a principal in the Marion Community Schools (Cactus 55). After this first graduation, six years passed until another student received a diploma from the school. This second graduating class of Marion High School consisted of seven members, all females (Weaver 6). By the year 1906, a total of 439 students had received diplomas from MHS. Despite the fires, enrollment at the high school had increased rapidly. Between the years 1883 and 1906, it rose from seventy-seven students to nearly four hundred (Cactus 55). One of these four hundred was Asenath Peters-Artis. Graduating in 1888, she was the first African-American student to receive a diploma from Marion High School. After graduation, she attended a normal school, became a teacher, and worked as a reporter for a Marion newspaper (Cactus 89).
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