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Guam Historian Inducted Into Prep School Hall Of Fame

GUAM - Island historian, former senator and longtime journalist Tony Palomo has been honored by his alma mater prep school.

Belmont Abbey College, a Catholic college and preparatory school in Charlotte, North Carolina, inducted Antonio M. Palomo and four others into its Distinguished Alumni Wall of Fame during the alumni association's fifth annual induction ceremony recently.

The Gaston Gazette published the college's official description of Palomo, who graduated with the Abbey prep school's senior class of 1950 before entering Marquette University:

Antonio Palomo
Palomo worked as a journalist and assistant managing editor of the Guam Daily News from 1943 to 1963 after graduating from the Abbey. He served as a senator in the Guam legislature and worked for the U.S. Department of the Interior for 12 years. He was the presiding officer of the First Constitutional Convention of Guam in 1969 and 1970. Palomo's historical publications tell of the courage of the people of Guam during their World War II occupation...
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