Dupont and band director Dave Kies will share the emcee duties for the evening. The opening ceremony will include introduction of this years honorary chair, Jeanne Arnold, a WSHS graduate and cancer survivor who will tell her story and welcome all those community members who are cancer survivors.
Jeanne Arnold, Grand Valley State University's vice president for inclusion and equity, said the school in the western part of the state is "encouraged by the ruling," though she said no immediate policy changes were expected.
Delmar Kearsley, Barbara Brooks, Joyce Ottaviano, Natalina Lena, Robert Nelson, Ronald Maylath, Theodore Schulze, Mary Bacon, Joan Russell, Barbara Smith, Rose Scozzafava, Marion Kearsley