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Auditorium Shines Anew

Tribune photo by JAMIE PILARCZYK

Dedicating the Katherine Moore Morse Auditorium at the D.W. Waters Career Center are from left school board member Jack Lamb, Morse, superintendent MaryEllen Elia and Principal Veronica Knight.

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By JOSÉ PATIÑO GIRONA

The Tampa Tribune

Published: May 29, 2008

TAMPA HEIGHTS - The last time the auditorium at D.W. Waters Career Center was used for a graduation was in 1967, when the school was named Jefferson High.

The renovated auditorium was brought back to life Wednesday night as the school celebrated its graduation and the auditorium was dedicated for Kay Moore Morse, who graduated from Jefferson in 1943 and pushed to save the 1910 building.

The Hillsborough County School District spent $9 million in 2002 to restore the building and convert it to the career center, but the auditorium wasn't part of the initial project.

The district since has spent $950,000 in the first phase of restoring the auditorium.

Reporter José Patiño Girona can be reached at (813) 835-2110 or jpatino@tampatrib.com.

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