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

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We then went to the Pan American building. The patio was filled with' tropical trees and birds. We saw a banana tree, coffee trees, and many others. We also saw a Macaw which was 92 years old. There were four marble columns,in this building which were worth $10,000 each, and a $ 5 000 chandelier. Twenty-one republics belong to the Pan Amer- ican Union. Simon Bolivar is the father of this organiza- tion. We visited the White House. The walls are covered with brocade. We saw the Blue Room, the Green Room and the Red Room. The floors are covered with thick carpets, and there are beautiful chandeliers all through the building. We saw paintings of all the Presidents. John Adams was the first President to live in the White House. There are 132 rooms, and it cost approximately five million seven hundred dollars. Saturday afternoon Ed Curtin drove us over the Memo- rial Highway to Mount Vernon. We walked through the old mansion and saw things as they were when Washington lived there. We also saw the tombs of Martha and George Washing- ton. Mount Vernon is owned and maintained by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, founded in 1853 for the preservation of the home and tomb of Washington. We toured Alexandria, Virginia, and saw the Washington Masonic Memorial which was dedicated by the Masons to George Washington. We then visited the Custis-Lee Mansion in Virginia, which was owned by Robert E. Lee before the Civil War. Everything is the same as it was when the Lee's lived there. Our guide then took us to the Arlington National Cemetery, where we watched the changing of the guards in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. We stopped at the Iwo Jima Marine Memorial. This is the largest sculpture ever cast in bronze. It shows the raising of our flag in World War II. Saturday night some of us went to the Glen Echo Amusement Park, and some went on the Wilson Line Cruise on the Potomac River. Many of us enjoyed the ride on the roller coaster and also the rock and roll dance at the amusement park. Sunday morning we didn't go to the Sunrise Services at the Arlington Cemetery because it was postponed on account of rain. Some of us went to local churches and others stayed at the Hotel and rested.

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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

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Sunday afternoon we visited the Franciscan Monastery, we saw the beautiful statue of St. Francis. We W Iked through the gardens at the monastery and also saw catacombs. The rest of the afternoon we spent in the 7o We saw every kind of animal imaginable there. Of course, we didn’t have time to see everything. Sunday night we went to the Jefferson Memorial, where we saw a large statue of Thomas Jefferson We then went to the Lincoln Memorial, where we 3aw a bfeautiful statue of Abraham Lincoln. We also went to the National Airport, where a plane takes off approximately every three minutes. Monday morning we left the Hotel about 8:00 A.M. for the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. We saw stacks of money three feet high. We watched them print the money, check it, count It, and mark the money that had flaws. We also saw a ten thousand dollar bill. We then went to the Smithsonian Institution where we saw the gowns of all the Presidents wives, the Wright Brothers’ plane The Kitty Hawk , Charles Lindbergh’s plane The Spirit of St. Louis and many other interesting things. We left Washington at 2:00 P.M. Monday, April 7, and arrived at New York City at S'-kS P.M. CLASS OFFICERS Fred Hitchman----------- President Gerald Rose---------Vice-President Gerry Merithew------------Secretary Dawn Newvine--------------Treasurer CLASS MOTO We have crossed the bay; the ocean lies ahead CLASS COLORS Royal Blue and Silver CLASS FLOWER Yellow Roses