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Final Parsons College Wall of Honor class
PHOTO COURTESY OF WERNER ELMKER
This year was the 10th and final class of alumni to be inducted onto the Parsons College Wall of Honor in Parsons College Alumni Hall inside the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center. The ceremony was held Saturday morning. The 11 inductees to earn plaques on the wall included, from left, Ron Hunerdosse, Don Samuelson, Thomas Grooms, George Estle, Cindy Thompson Albers, William Atkins, John Blackstock, Joyce Berlin Witzenburg and John Braidwood. Not pictured are Robert Fox and Larry Marino.
John Blackstock is inducted onto the Parsons College Wall of Honor. Blackstock and Dave Neff were the main instigators of the wall of honor when it began in 2009.
PHOTO COURTESY OF WERNER ELMKER Parsons College Foundation Fund president Dave Neff addresses the crowd in the Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts Saturday morning. A portrait of General Lewis B. Parsons, who founded the college in 1875, can be seen resting on a chair on the left side of the image.
