Clay Lomneth (’06) captured a rare moment in history. It was the funeral of Fae Moore, who died in 1943 at the Battle of Tarawa in the Pacific, and whose remains were identified recently by DNA.  Moore was a Nebraska native and the story was shared in a recent Omaha World Herald article.

This photo was featured on the cover of the American Legion national magazine and May.  The circulation for this publication is more than 2-million. One reader commented “it was an image for eternity”.

Lomneth shared that  he  actually got his start in photography at Central, working for the Register. By the time I graduated I knew I wanted to do two things: travel and use a camera.  “Chances are, I had to experiment with a camera at CHS and the love I found for journalism there have absolutely shaped my life.”