In 1972 the Mandeville High School Skippers needed a new bus to bring athletic teams back and forth to games. The old bus had mechanical issues that sometimes stranded football teams halfway home, one time on the Causeway at 2 a.m.
The chosen remedy was a new Blue Goose. A community-wide effort to raise funds for the purchase of the new bus was instituted, and newspapers gave a week-by-week progress report on the fund-raising.
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Letter to the Editor about the project
