The Dunbar Determination; Excellence was the expectation at D.C.'s premier black school.

From: The Washington Post | Date: June 14, 1992 | Copyright information

Several hundred Washington-area residents from the Dunbar High School classes of 1948 to 1964 will gather this evening at the officers' club at Andrews Air Force Base to greet old faces, to remember "when Dunbar was Dunbar" and to honor the man most responsible for making it so: retired principal and native Washingtonian Charles S. Lofton.

Had the organizers a choice, Lofton's testimonial dinner would have been held in the armory of the old turreted castle at First and N streets NW, where much of the school's reputation for excellence was earned. But that historic national landmark was ...

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