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Grady High auditorium to be dedicated to outgoing principal

By Mark Niesse
May 15, 2014

An auditorium at Grady High School in Midtown Atlanta will be dedicated Monday to outgoing Principal Vincent Murray.

The dedication of the Vincent D. Murray Auditorium will celebrate Murray’s 23 years as the school’s leader. The event will be at 5 p.m. in the school’s courtyard.

Atlanta Public Schools began accepting applications for principals at about 20 schools this spring, including Grady High.

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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.

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