Clay High School - Minuteman Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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:ll an an all l'll.:l.l SENIOR TRIP 1949 The seniors of 1949 are joining with Somerset High School seniors to make their senior trip The group will leave Clay Tbwnship early on the morning of Satur day, May 7 They will go to Detroit, Michigan, by way of Fort Wayne and Toledo and will cross to Windsor, Ontario there by the Ambassador Bridge The first night out will be spent at the Grand Central Hotel in St Thomas, Ontario the first time out of our country for nearly all of us After an early start on Sunday morning we will reach Niagara Falls We will see the falls from the Canadian side and have a chance to ride the Spanish Aero Car above Whirlpool Rapids and will then cross the Rainbow Bridge back to the U 8 A In Niagara Falls, New York,we will o to the foot of the falls for a bet 4ter view and see The laid of the Mist ' After leaving 'N1agara, we'll see the broad Niagara River above the falls and go to Buffalo, New York Our second night out will be spent at Danville, New York Our third day's travel will take us south across Pennsylvania for our first view of the mountains and to Gettysburg Battlefield We'll have a conducted tour of our first of three nights at Hotel Annapolisl Our next two days will acquaint us with some of the beauties of our nat1on's capital Being young and energetic, no doubt we'll climb Washington Monument al though we hear it is quite a feat of endurance We'll see Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, the Capitol, Supreme Court Building, the Pentagon Smithsonian In stitute, Bureau of Engraving, the National Airport an many more of the things of which we've heard we'll also go to Mt Vernon to see the home of our first president On the morning of our sixth day we will turn home ward back across Pennsylvan1a's mountains to Wheeling, West Virginia, where we'll spend our last night out Early on the morning of our seventh day we'll cross the Ohio River into Ohio That day's travel will bring us back across the state just east of us to the end of our trip which will take us into seven states other than our own, the Province of Ontarlo,Canada, and the District of Columbia gil the battlefield and hurry ongtggmlashlngton, D. C. for , GEEJAHIIIII