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From: MSN NicknameHerb-M  (Original Message)Sent: 2/9/2003 12:55 AM
Which high school at one time was the largest in the country.  For extra credit, how many students  (to the nearest thousand).


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From: MSN NicknameMarty-GSent: 2/9/2003 1:41 AM
DeWitt C??

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From: MSN NicknameHerb-MSent: 2/9/2003 3:26 PM
Yes, it was Clinton.  6,000 students.

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From: MSN NicknameMarty-GSent: 2/9/2003 3:51 PM
The student population at DeWitt C was about 6,000 when I graduated in 1963.

Herb, I wonder if some of the same students were there during your tenure and mine!

De-Witt-C-L-I-N-T-O-N boom.

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From: MSN NicknameHerb-MSent: 2/9/2003 4:53 PM
Marty, you were still in diapers when I graduated Clinton.
 
The 6,000 may be wrong; I may have recalled incorrectly.  In 1934 there were 12,000 students and it was the largest then.  In the 1963 Guiness Book of records it is listed as the largest high school in the world.
 
I still have my Clinton Redbook and football pin.
 
I remember the ditty:
Dewitt C, your b-lls are up a tree. It was stupid, but that is what we sang.

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From: MSN NicknameMarty-GSent: 2/9/2003 4:59 PM
De-Witt-C-L-I-N-T-O-N

BOOM!!!

Clinton, oh Clinton
Ever to thee
Fairest of high schools
Give her three times three, oh fellows
Long may we cherish thee
Faithful we'll be
Clinton, oh Clinton
For you and me!

I don't know if an English translation is available.

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From: NanaM5Sent: 2/9/2003 5:31 PM
Marty,You have my husband walking around here singing the De Witt C-l-i-n-t-o-n , rallying song. he graduated in 1958.

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From: MSN NicknameMarty-GSent: 2/9/2003 5:59 PM
Then maybe he can. . . .

1. Do the "BOOM" part with feeling.

2. Explain just what the hell "three times three" means.

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From: NanaM5Sent: 2/9/2003 6:13 PM
To answer Question 2 , he has no idea what 3 times 3 means.

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From: MSN NicknameMarty-GSent: 2/9/2003 6:25 PM
Someone told me it means "nine," but I can't verify that.

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From: NanaM5Sent: 2/9/2003 6:28 PM
Funny Funny, My husband cant be sure either he went to De Witt Clinton !!!

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From: MSN NicknameMarty-GSent: 2/9/2003 11:59 PM
If your husband had gone to Clinton, I'm sure he'd remember being there. . .but little else.

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