[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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