[Magdalen] Speaking of unfortunate names

Cantor03 at aol.com Cantor03 at aol.com
Wed Jun 1 17:42:41 UTC 2016



In a message dated 6/1/2016 11:51:32 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:

And  speaking of high schools with weird names, there is, or was, a rural
high  school "up nort" somewhere in Wisconsin called Ondossagon. There isn't
a  town by that name, so I'm not quite sure where it is. One year back
before  they divided the state high school basketball tournament into
classes by  size, the "cinderella" team happened to be the one from
Ondossagon, leading  one of the sportswriters in Madison to quip, "Just what
kind of geometric  figure is  
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There is Ontonagon, Michigan, on Lake Superior not far from the
Wisconsin line.
 
I understand the school song for Ontonagon High School is "Ontonagon"
inserted in "On Wisconsin" for those words, and using the On  Wisconsin
tune and the rest of the Wisconsin text.
 
 
 
David Strang..
 
 




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