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Johnny Vardeman: FDRs lectern to join Gainesville Highs birthday bash
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Prominently on display today at Gainesville High School’s 125th anniversary celebration will be the lectern especially built for President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he visited Gainesville after the 1936 tornado. It will be on display at the school’s Pam Ware Performing Arts Center. The lectern was equipped with brass rails to allow the president, who suffered from the effects of polio, to stand while speaking.