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Gainesville High alumni replace missing elephant art

Gainesville High students enter the school cafeteria Wednesday afternoon past a new class of 1963 elephant art piece on the building’s side

1218gainesville1 — Gainesville High students enter the school cafeteria Wednesday afternoon past a new class of 1963 elephant art piece on the building’s side

Counte Cooley was tired of driving by Gainesville High School and not seeing his elephant. Cooley is part of the 1963 class from the high school, which donated a metal elephant to the school after graduation. In the 1970s, the elephant was stolen, and it’s been missing since.