Jefferson alumni reflect on their teenage years amid integration in anticipation of the school’s 100th anniversary

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A castle with two towers in front. Filled with “hidden and special, unique places” for students to find — that’s how Judy Harrison recalls her old high school, Jefferson Senior High in Roanoke.

Harrison, a class of 1966 alumna, takes pride in her alma mater, not just for the education she received but for the building that housed that education.

“The building was just special and still is today. There’s something that was different about being there,” she said.

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Judy Harrison’s photo in the Class of 1966 yearbook. Photo by Samantha Verrelli.

Something different may be coming back to the building, now the Jefferson Center, 100 years after its opening, and five decades since high school students last walked its halls between opening and closing bells…

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