Dondero High School - Oak Yearbook (Royal Oak, MI)

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Senior Trip ls Fun Even in Basement Senior Trip is one of The focal poinTs of The Senior year. In pasT years many Seniors belonged To The WashingTon Club, earning our way To WashingTon and having fun doing iT, which worked as a group To raise The money for The Trip. CounTless boxes of soap, jello, ChrisTmas cards, bread, canned fruiT and vegeTables, Tons of magazines and newspapers were sold To or collecTed from unsuspecTing residenTs of Royal Oak. In 1921, all cooking was done on oil sToves. One day a driver, slighTly inebriaTed, filled his Truck wiTh a mixTure of kerosene and gasoline, which, if lighTed in The burners of The sToves, would explode. Senior class To The rescue! Wakened early on a biTTer morning, They were given leafieTs To disTribuTe To all homes, warning Them noT To lighT Their sToves unTil The siTuaTion was correcTed. The oil company paid The Seniors, adding more money for The Trip. Finally The big day arrived. An early class had Mr. Dondero for a guide Through The capiTal. A highlighT of one Tour was in a dim sub-basemenT of The War DeparTmenT. AfTer passing around a brown fragmenf and a small piece of rope, The Seniors were Told ThaT These arTicles were a piece of Abraham Lincoln's skull and a few inches of The rope which hung one of The conspiraTors againsf Lincoln. On anoTher evenTful Trip, a Train wiTh Two cars of lively Seniors pulled inTo The Harrisburg STaTion abouT 5:45 in The morning. Tom STarr and DuTch Hollinger wenT exploring during The Two-hour layover. ln The capiTol, They found The governor's office open and, inviTing Themselves in, They wroTe Their girls leTTers using The governor's sTaTion- ary. Racing back To The sTaTion Too laTe, They could see The Train pulling ouT, Their classmaTes beckoning fran- Tically. Arriving in WashingTon a few hours laTe They Took on The WashingTon MonumenT. Climbing The 898 sTairs, They paused To gaze ouT one of The unbarred windows near The Top when DuTch dropped his haT. Inquiring of a guard where iT was, he said iT had landed on governmenT properTy surrounding The monumenT and They would have To geT a' pass before They could refrieve iT. ObTaining The pass was easy enough buT The climbing To The Top of The monumenT again To geT iT counTersigned by anoTher official was rough!

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:J QTWT Gvwwwff- 'SP GT' ,4 T9 Tx'T-WP .M George A. Dondero, for whom Dondero High was named, was fhe firsf presrdenf of a Semor class eiaeb ei-a ds

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A N X , ir r ' L ,L,, 1 2:22, V - as X gs is , J xr U. 6 S' F ,Q Above, flue gracluaiing class of 1910 poses wifh rose corsages and diplomas for bofh ille boys and girls. Al Phe righf, fhe class of 1922 visifs Mounf Vernon, one of fhe hislorical markers of America. This was just one of fhe many places visifed on ihe oufskirfs of Washingfon, D. C. K- Ss fh,f