Hawthorn All-Girls High School Graduates Its First Class, A ‘Sisterhood’

by Ryan Delaney, St. Louis Public Radio
May 25, 2021

The eight seniors who received diplomas from Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls became a tight-knit group over the past six years.

“We like sisters,” as Hannah Green explained it. “We real close, like family. We get into fights like sisters, we make up like sisters. It’s just a real sisterhood here.”

Green was valedictorian for the first graduating class Tuesday from Missouri’s first all-girls public high school.

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