Clarke Central High School English department co-chair Meghan McNeeley stands next to a Dolly Parton collage in Room 321 on Aug. 26. McNeeley felt that Dolly Parton deserved to be recognized after singer-songwriter’s death on Aug. 25, so she and many other teachers at CCHS decorated their classrooms and dressed up in her honor. “I can’t think of something that woman has done that’s bad or shameful. She’s a good person who doesn’t judge people. She loves everybody. She helps,” McNeeley said. “(What we did today) was an honoring. We’re paying tribute to her. Nobody had anything (bad) to say about her and she had nothing bad to say about any of us. She needed to be celebrated. It was a collective loss.” Photos by Grady Dunston, story by Olive Forrester
CCHS faculty and students honored Dolly Parton’s legacy by dressing up and decorating their doors following the singer-songwriter’s death on Aug. 25.
