Seven years later, Black students were finally able to enter John McDonogh Senior High School. Pam Campbell Matthews, Class of 1972, John McDonogh Senior High School (Image courtesy of the Trojan yearbook of Carolyn Johnson Blaise)Choosing between John Mac and ClarkIn 1968, half a mile away, a year after Matthews walked into John McDonogh, Deborah Richardson enrolled in Joseph S. Clark High School. There was John McDonogh Senior High School, a grand brick building on Esplanade Avenue, which was designed for white students by E.A. Pam Campbell Mathews, who was among the first students to integrate John McDonogh Senior High School in 1967. When he went to the school district to enroll in high school, he was given one choice — John McDonogh.