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In Memoriam: LFHS alumni remember "Renaissance man" Jim Benton

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Alan P. Henry, Freelance Reporter
3:00 am CDT July 21, 2019
As a forward-thinking educator at Lake Forest High School for 37 years, a computer expert, singer, poet, intricate model maker and photographer, Jim Benton was the quintessential “man of parts.”

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