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All her children: LPS's Marilyn Moore has kept tabs on the Class of 2011 to get to know the faces behind the numbers

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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.

All her children: LPS's Marilyn Moore has kept tabs on the Class of 2011 to get to know the faces behind the numbers

• By MARGARET REIST / Lincoln Journal Star
• May 28, 2011
• May 28, 2011 Updated May 31, 2011
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Lincoln East senior Cody Potter (left) and Lincoln Southeast senior Hannah Hoppmann (right) with Marilyn Moore (center) at Lincoln East High School on Thursday, May 26, 12 years, 2 months and 4 days to the day they were photographed for a Lincoln Journal Star article about them as kindergartners. (FRANCIS GARDLER / Lincoln Journal Star)

• FRANCIS GARDLER/Lincoln Journal Star

LPS Associate Superintendent Marilyn Moore with then-kindergartners, Cody Potter, 6, and Hannah Hoppmann, 5. The two are part of "Class of 2011" project. (Journal Star file photo)

• Journal Star file photo

Lincoln Southeast High School graduate Tram-Ahn Tran is illuminated by a spotlight after she leaves the stage at the Pershing Center on Saturday, May 28, 2011. The school celebrated its 56th annual commencement in front of family and friends. (FRANCIS GARDLER / Lincoln Journal Star)

• FRANCIS GARDLER/Lincoln Journal

Lila Byron wait for the start of Lincoln Northeast High School's commencement exercises at Pershing Center on Saturday. (FRANCIS GARDLER / Lincoln Journal Star)

• FRANCIS GARDLER/Lincoln Journal

Lincoln Northeast High School graduate Lila Byron (left) poses for a snapshot with classmate Lindsey Dill prior to the start of the school's commencement at the Pershing Center on Saturday. Lila was one of more than 200 students whose school years were tracked by Lincoln Public Schools Assistant Superintendent Marilyn Moore. (FRANCIS GARDLER / Lincoln Journal Star)

• FRANCIS GARDLER/Lincoln Journal

Tram-Anh Tran is all smiles as she and her classmates wait in the basement for the start of Southeast High School's 56th annual commencement at the Pershing Center on Saturday. (FRANCIS GARDLER / Lincoln Journal Star)

• FRANCIS GARDLER/Lincoln Journal

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By MARGARET REIST / Lincoln Journal Star

One day 11 years ago, Austin Blankenau arrived home from his second-grade classroom at Humann Elementary School with a story he'd written tucked into his backpack.

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