John Long graduated from Charles Wright in 1964 and returned to teach English from 1971 to 2005. John was a little older than his classmates in that first graduating class of students, so he is officially Charles Wright’s oldest living alum. John has many memories of the language and performing arts programs and he’s keeping a close eye on the new building project.

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If you read The Olympian this morning you may already know that Ian Stoner, a 2007 Charles Wright graduate from Olympia, has won a writing contest and $1,000 college scholarship from ScholarshipExperts.com. More than 10,000 students answered the contest question: “If you could get one ‘do-over’ in life, what would it be and why?” Stoner’s short essay was one of the five winners.

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