Longview Hills @ Newport Oregon

Newport News-Times: Diploma delivered half-century later:

By Steve Card Of the News-Times
He would have been a member of Newport High School's Class of 1954, but William LaForce instead chose to leave school and join the Navy. And so in 1952, at the age of 17, LaForce found himself aboard a troop transport ship, shuttling military personnel back and forth to Korea during the war. When the rest of his classmates were graduating from Newport High School in the spring of 1954, LaForce was stationed at a Naval air station in Japan.

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