Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 28, 1964
Caption:
FUTURE'S BRIGHT: Though he's flat on his back and will require extensive surgery for numerous broken bones and other accident injuries, Sam McDonald, Dundee's first Negro schoolteacher, has found thousands of friends he didn't know he had. The nurse is Miss JoAnn Nelson of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 10, 1964
Caption:
CATCHING UP ON HIS MAIL: Samuel A. McDonald, the only Negro school teacher in the 2,377-resident village of Dundee, gets into the day's batch of mail while recuperating in Veterans Hospital from serious injuries suffered in a Jan. 31 auto accident. Students and Dundee friends have collected more than $1,700 to help defray the 37-year-old McDonald's hospital and medical bills.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, May 7, 1965
Caption:
Samuel A. McDonald, 37, of 908 Gott, led the elementary chorus of the Dundee Community Schools yesterday in a special concert for patients of the Veterans Hospital in Ann Arbor. Nearly crushed to death in an automobile accident on Jan. 31, 1964, McDonald was given more than $1,700 by Dundee school children and citizens who established a Sam McDonald Fund to help pay his medical bills. He was a patient at the Veterans Hospital for nearly eight months before returning last September to his job as music teacher in the Dundee school system.