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This 2014 photo shows Emerson High School in Gary, closed and abandoned.
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This 2014 photo shows Emerson High School in Gary, closed and abandoned.
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In 2014, Gary native Kendall Svengalis visited his hometown and came upon an old diploma for Edith Victoria Carlson, a 1931 Emerson High School graduate who never received her diploma. After 85 years of sitting in the school’s attic, the diploma finally got to its rightful owner.