[Magdalen] Speaking of unfortunate names

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 17:55:50 UTC 2016


I'm guessing a Native American tribe?

> On Jun 1, 2016, at 1:42 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 6/1/2016 11:51:32 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
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> 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  
> There is Ontonagon, Michigan, on Lake Superior not far from the
> Wisconsin line.
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> 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.
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> David Strang..
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