Welcome to our Mackenzie 50s-60s Website

We hope you will join your former classmates at our upcoming annual picnic on Wednesday, July 24, 2024, which will be held at Nankin Mills Shelter in Hines Park from noon - 5 pm.  It will be our 13th annual picnic!

As usual entrance to our picnic is FREE for everyone who went to Mackenzie during the 50s and 60s. You can bring your own food or purchase  something from our food truck(s). This year we are hoping to have a larger variety of foods available for purchase.

Once again we'll have merchandise to purchase with our Mackenzie logo and some raffles. 

For  your listening and/or dancing pleasure, we'll have our DJ Paul back.

If you would like to help us during the day, please go to "Contact Us" in the upper left-hand corner of our Home Page.  We can always use more volunteers to help out!

If you have any questions or concerns, please go to "Contact Us" and let us know.  

If you have been gone from Mackenzie for 50 or more years, then the "After 50 Luncheon" is for you.  Sometimes called "Golden Affair" Luncheon, it is always held the last Friday in September.  This year's date is September 27, 2024 and there is a new chairperson this year.  For more information, please contact:

Deborah Cheatham Lincoln at debck84@gmail.com

OR

Debra Simpson Robison at drobinson3@comcast.net

SEE MORE INFORMATION BELOW....

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Inside an 1895 Queen Anne-style home on Cass, Wayne State University founder David Mackenzie (our school's namesake) was known for entertaining guests and dignitaries in his oak-paneled library, wowing them with his fluency in several languages and his ability to read and write Sanskrit.

The Mackenzie house is one of the oldest and most iconic buildings on Wayne State's campus. It's part of a National Historic District, established in the 1970s, that also includes Wayne State's first building, the first Detroit Central High School.

Designed by Malcomson & Higginbotham, it was built in 1895 by W.H. Hollands and Sons. Originally the home of Frank Blackman, a banker, Mackenzie purchased it in 1906.

The former principal of Detroit Central High School is credited with founding Wayne State after he noticed dozens of his graduates couldn't afford to attend college. So he, along with school faculty, proposed creating a junior college as part of the high school, according to a report from the Detroit City Council historic designation advisory board.

In 1923, state lawmakers voted to give the college full “collegiate rank,” and it became the College of the City of Detroit. It was the start of what's now Wayne State

The red brick house where Mackenzie lived for about 20 years until his death in 1926 spans two and a half stories. It features a large porch, overhanging gables and a threequarter round turret on the southeast corner.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackenzie_High_School_(Michigan)

See link below for a History of Mackenzie:
https://www.classcreator.com/Detroit-Michigan-Mackenzie-1972/class_custom3.cfm