Hermon DeKalb Central School - Demon Yearbook (De Kalb Junction, NY)

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WASHINGTON • r Class of 1958 left DeKalb Junction at 7:00 Thursday, A ril 3, 1958. Many of us didn’t get p.M. on 1 because of the excitement. For many of us It -uch sl®fp . train ride. We arrived at Grand Central was our y;0o A.M. Friday. After taking a bus to Station aoo we ate a quick breakfast and boarded a train Pfr «Wngton at 8:30 A.M. u arrived in Washington at 12:20 P.M. A bus took the Commodore Hotel. We ate lunch at a nearby res- US t0 t and then started on tour. Our guide was Ed Curtin t-r- afternoon we went to the Capitol building. We saw fh statues of two of the most outstanding citizens from th6h state. We saw a chandelier in the President's room 8hich was iij. karat gold-plated. Also in the President's •oom were the sculptures of George Washington's cabinet. We visited the House of Representatives and the Senate chambers and saw where our Representatives and Senators sit while Congress is in session. A guide took us all through the Capitol and explained everything. In one room there was a bronze plaque laid in the center of the floor, and when our guide stood on one side of the room and talked her voice reflected up to the ceiling and down to the plaque. We all stood around it, and were amazed when her voice came up from the plaque. The building had to be made very uniquely in order for this to be accomplished. We then visited the Supreme Court building. The out- side is all marble from Vermont. There are many marble pillars on the Inside. A guide explained all the details to us. We also visited the Federal Bureau of Investigation, ur guide, who will someday be a G-man, explained how many riminals have been caught. We saw every kind of gun there blo H f a s? saw crime laboratory where they test hou°-hho? human or animal. Our guide explained 0U„ rnHH d°ue. We saw pictures of the ten top criminals dal 4tro!ft°u u? to range and we watched a Spe- in this building n tarSet Everyone was interested tour at R-'on m°-TninS we arose at 6:1+5. We started on Monument t+- • we visited the Washington walked down 555 feet tal1 with 898 steps. Many of us if you hurried11 ounc that it took about fifteen minutes