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A large community of Fort Hunt High School alumni remains active online, organizing regular all-school and all-year reunion gatherings, and granting annual scholarships to graduating seniors of
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Award-winning broadcast journalist returns to her roots (she's an '82 grad of Fort Hunt High School) to wow crowd Friday night at Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce dinner.
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In 1985, due to declining enrollment, and after contentious political and legal battles to keep the school open, Fort Hunt was combined with Groveton High School to form
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Constructed at a cost of $ 2.5 million, Fort Hunt High opened its doors at 8428 Fort Hunt Road in 1963, toward the end of the
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into the building. The fire resulted in the forced relocation of 1,700 students who were sent on a split shift to nearby
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Robert Novogratz '81 — real estate investor, designer, and television host on HGTV and Bravo
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on December 30, 1978, when two seniors at the school and a 1978 graduate threw
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Cohn, D'Vera; Carton, Barbara; Writers, Washington Post Staff (1985-06-07).
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Munsey, Everard (24 January 1963). "Fairfax Gets Title to Site Of School".
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The school suffered $ 4.5 million in fire damage as the result of
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for the diffusion of scientific culture, and the first €25,000
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from 1963 until 1985, when it was converted to a middle school.
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Fort Hunt High School 1969 Yearbook - "The Fortress" vol. VI
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School buildings in the United States destroyed by arson
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