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OPELIKA — The J.W. Darden High School Class of 1968 announced its 2025 academic scholarship recipients. These scholarships are awarded to outstanding graduating seniors in honor of their grandparents, who are DHS Class of 1968 alumni. Scholarship committee members include Lonnie Cockrell, Eddie B. Lockhart, Gwendolyn Pearson Mitchell, Phyllis Mills Peters, Betty Crittenden Reese and Delores Kirk Turner. Karynten Cochran is an honors graduate of Cumberland International Early College High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She is the daughter of Fonda Jones and Bishop Cochran. Her grandmother, Cheryl Meredith Clark, is a 1968 Darden High School alumna. Karynten is enrolled at East Carolina University as a biology major. Tyler J. Moore is a recent graduate o

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