on June 6 and
11 a.m. to 3
p.m. on June
7 for $15 at
the door.
T h e
Friday Night
Social will
be held from
9 p.m. to 1
a.m., at the
Student Centre at Durham
College/UOIT. Tickets for
the event are $10 per person
with registration and $15 at the door.
The event is limited to 820 registrants including
guests and must be 19
years of age or older.
A Saturday Night Social
and Dance will be held at
Durham College/UOIT from
7 p.m. to 1 a.m. and is limited
to 2,710 registrants
including guests.
Tickets for
this event are $25 per person
or $30 at the door.
Finally, on June 8, the
South Village Residence
Dining Hall at Durham
College/UOIT will be hosting
a Pancake Breakfast for
$10 per person from 8:30 to
9:30 a.m.
There were only two high
schools in Oshawa in the
1950’s—O’Neill Collegiate, which was built in 1910 and Central Collegiate, which
was built in 1949, before
Donevan Collegiate was built.
When the school was first
built in 1958 on Harmony
Road, it had a gymnasium,
two home economics rooms,
two industrial arts rooms, four laboratories,
a business
machines room,
typing and bookkeeping
rooms, a
cafeteria and 20
other classrooms.
As the school
underwent improvements
and additions,
the school
was built around the gymnasium
in order to make the
centre of student life easily
accessible from any classroom.
The school was named
after Dr. Frederick James
Donevan, who was born in
1880 in Gananoque.
D o n e v a n
graduated in
m e d i c i n e
from Queen’s
University in
1907 and had
an active
medical practice
from 1908 to 1948. In 1919, he
set up a practice
in Oshawa and was elected to the Oshawa Board of Education in 1926.
He
was chair for 1931 and 32
and chaired the property
committee for many years
following. Donevan died in
1948 at the age of 68.
The school officially
opened on Nov. 5, 1958.
Norman A. Sisco was
Donevan’s first principle
and the first vice-principle
was Arthur B. Woods.
For more information on
the school or events for
Donevan Collegiate’s 50th
anniversary, visit the website at www.donevan.ca.
With files from Amber Nowak, Archivist, Oshawa Historical Museum
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