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CLEMSON, S.C. Clemson legend and Ring of Honor member Fred Cone passed away early Friday morning (Dec. 31) at the age of 95. Cone had suffered a broken hip on Dec. 16 and had survived surgery to correct the injury, but complications from the surgery kept him in the Prisma Oconee Memorial Hospital in Seneca until his passing. Cone watched with great joy Clemson’s win over Iowa State in the Cheez-It Bowl from his hospital room on Wednesday evening. Cone was an avid supporter of the Clemson football program and attended games and practices in recent years. “I am sad to hear of the passing of Fred Cone,” said Clemson Head Coach Dabo Swinney when he learned of the news on Friday morning. “He is a true football legend and one of the kindest men I have met. “He lived an amazing life and I know will be missed by many. I am thankful that I was blessed to know him and hear him tell stories of his past Clemson and NFL days. He was truly a special man. May he rest in peace.” Cone’s
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The writer, co-founder of a Jewish news site called Nu? Detroit, revisits a change, begun in the early 1960s, when black students from Royal Oak Township attended junior high and high school in Oak Park, then predominantly Jewish. His column is republished with permission.
By Mark Jacobs
(Photos: Revoir yearbook) Robert Brown recently shared memories of Oak Park High School. Robert and I graduated in 1973. Aside from the sentimental stories about high school life, Robert touched on a topic which, even to this day, has not been fully examined: the racial integration of Oak Park Schools. A half-century on, it’s time for former Oak Park students and staff Black and white to reflect on their experiences to try to make some sense of what those well-intentioned policies accomplished, if anything.