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ALUMNI PROFILE

We want you! If you are an alum of Royal Oak Schools we want to hear from you.

Royal Oak Schools is searching for recommendations of alumni to feature on our alumni page on our website. If you're an alum or you know someone who is, with a unique success story to tell, or wants to brag about their accomplishments, nominate them to be profiled by our district.

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Use this link to fill out an alumni profile and share your tale with the Royal Oak Schools community.

Royal Oak Turned 100 In 2021!

In honor of the city of Royal Oak turning 100, we'd like to connect with our alumni and hear their stories about school in Royal Oak over the years, or from multi-generational Royal Oakers. Do you know anyone that graduated from Dondero or Kimball, went to Churchill or Lincoln or one of the other 20 schools? We'd love to talk to them. Or maybe it's a relative of yours and you have old pictures or yearbooks to share. Give us a call! You can reach out by calling 248-435-8400 x 2184 with any information you may have to help us create our own Royal Oak Schools 100 years timeline! #ROS100

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ROYAL OAK SCHOOLS VHS ARCHIVES

Click on this link to hear all about 2014 alum Austin Carter and his journey to Antarctica.

According to WXYZ, he joined researchers from 15 universities and the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration (COLDEX) to find the oldest ice on the planet and study the prehistoric dust particles trapped inside.

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NOTABLE ALUMNI

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha: Hanna-Attisha led nationally recognized research showing blood lead levels of Flint children doubled after the city began treating its own river water. Graduated in 1994.

Amy Lawson Smeed is the co-head of Animation for "Raya and the Last Dragon" at Walt Disney Animation Studios. She has worked there for 23 years animating on such films as "Frozen," "Moana," "Wreck-It Ralph," "Big Hero 6," and more. She graduated from Royal Oak Kimball in 1992.

Glenn Frey graduated in 1966: Frey was the co-lead singer and front man for the Eagles, roles he came to share with fellow member Don Henley, with whom he wrote most of the Eagles' material. Glenn Frey Day is celebrated on November 6 with radio station, WCSX.

Tom Hayden: Hayden is known for being an anti-war and civil rights activist. He authored the Port Huron Statement (a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society) and was on trial in the 'Chicago Seven' case, which in 2020 was created into an Oscar-Nominated movie (see The Trial of the Chicago Seven). He died in 2016. He graduated from Dondero High School in 1956.

Judith Guest graduated in 1954: She wrote Ordinary People, a novel exploring teen suicide that was published in 1976 and became an Oscar-winning movie directed by Robert Redford.

Oliver L. Fretter: Fretter founded Fretter Appliance in the 1950s, with locations spread out in the Detroit area. His commercials became legendary. He was a 1941 graduate of Royal Oak High School.