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Moments in Memory: GPS continues May Day tradition

Contributed photo/Girls Preparatory School
Contributed photo/Girls Preparatory School Contributed photo/Girls Preparatory School

Editor’s note: This is part of an ongoing series commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Chattanooga Times Free Press. To read more, visit timesfreepress.com/150years.

Only a fraction of the thousands of Chattanoogans heading into downtown Wednesday morning might consider the day’s events at Girls Preparatory School as they pass the school.

Most likely, they know GPS is a private all-girls prep school and that the school has been around Chattanooga for a bit.

Few will have ever attended May Day.

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