Life Remembered: Vickers-Shelley's students recall credo

"Life is short ... therefore I shall be a crusader in the fight against ignorance and fear, beginning with myself."

Dorothy Vickers-Shelley had 74 years to crusade against ignorance and for civil rights, earning the respect and love of hundreds of schoolchildren at Yankee Ridge School.

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