February 13, 2025
Seventeen city police officers graduated from police and first aid school on March 4, 1954, at City Hall. At far right is Maj. Wallace McMurray. Front row from left: Howard S. Lowery, Eugene Haynes, Charles E. Noel and Lewis H. Fowler. Second row from left: Charles P. Cruse, J. Harrison Sallee, William B. Davis and Orville L. Wilson. Third row from left: Prather Walker, Robert M. Yates, William H. Lewis and Robert Compton. Fourth row from left: Richard Withrow, Wilbur Thompson, Price Duffy, John D. Campbell and Charles E. Ransdell. The officers in the three back rows were veteran police officers who took the course as a refresher. On Thursday, 48 police recruits will graduate from the Lexington Police Training Academy in a ceremony at Tates Creek Christian Church. Herald-Leader Archive Photo