Room filling up with notables for Lowery ceremony

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Crowds are starting to gather in the Hall of Mayors in anticipation of Memphis Mayor Pro Tem Myron Lowery's swearing in.

Willie Herenton, now a private citizen, has already made a low-key entrance at the side of the room. He's surrounded by a few well-wishers but not the throngs of people and TV cameras that tailed him at Thursday's retirement banquet.

Other notables in the room include former Memphis mayor Dick Hackett, former interim mayor J.O. Patterson, MLGW President Jerry Collins, City Councilman Shea Flinn and former councilman Scott McCormick.

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