Bolingbrook High School - Treasures Yearbook (Bolingbrook, IL)

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ANDREW CARNEGIE was a grant rn the rarlroad and steel rndustrres. He belreved that rt was the duty ot a rrch man to drslrrbute hrs wealth durrng hrs lrletrme. To that end. he established 2800 lrhrarres and many cultural halls throughout Amerrca A lrtetrrne passron tor machrnery led HENRY FORD to Detrort where, rn 1896, he corrrpleted hrs trrst motor ve' hrcle. The Ford Motor Company manufactured the lrrsl Model T rn 1909 Servrng an unprecedented four terms as Presrdent of the Urrrted States. FRANKLIN DELINO ROOSEVELT was 3 popular leader who made exterrsrve use ol lrresrde radro chats to explarn hrs plans and generate errthusrasm to push them through Congress The crrppler polromyelrlrs was conquered by DR. IONAS SALK rn 1953 alter morethan 25 years ot research Polro was reduced by 9692, rn less than ten years SALK's re- search contrnues rrr Calrlornra at the Salk lrrstrtule ROBERT FROST's poetry was clear, understated. well' metered and told the storres ol rural Amerrca. He was a lour-trme wrnner ot the Pulitzer Prrze and has been called Amerrca's poet laureate MARTIN LUTHER KING was a leader rn the cause ot crvrl rrghts He had been a pastor before turnrng to the cause ol segregalrorr Hrs Ieadershro earned hrm the Nobel Peace Prrze rn 1964 He was assassrnated by James Earl Ray rn 1968 t I One ol the most elementary symbols ol the Amerrcan way ot lute was establrshed when 1. EDGAR HOOVER and hrs Federal Bureau ol lnvestrgatron G-men set out lo clean up the country Hrs career spanned over 40 years. A plarn. homely woman wrth tremendous appeal to the masses. who was always rn the tlrrcIr ol lhrngsw def scrrbes ELEANOR ROOSEVELT and her lrtetrme ol polr- trckrng besrde her husband durrrrg hrs tour terms. I t Lreulenarrt Colonel 10HN GLENN started Amerrcas trav- els to outer space when he became the lrrst Amerrcan to orhrt the earth. He had been an avralor rn World War ll and a lest prlot rn peacetrme The motronfprcture rnduslry was revolutronrzed rn Anrerrf ca and DAVID WARK GRIFFITH became known as the Father ol the frlm art and lung ol drrectors' lor hrs part rn thrs revolutron Hrs camera technrques were the proneerrng steps ot the rnduslry THURGOOD MARSHALL rs the trrst Negro to serve as a rustrce ol the Supreme Court Hrs law career was armed prrmarrly at crvrl rrghls cases GERALD R. FORD, the lrrst Presrdent to achreve the ot- lrce wrlhout an electron. In 1970, through a serres ol scandalous events. the Nrxorr adrnrnrstratron toppled and FORD reached the posrtron through approval by Congress

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THEY MADE THEIR MARK Men and women who helped shape America's history THOMAS PAINE, a bankrupt Quaker corsetmaker. sorne- lrme teacher, preacher and grocer wrote the most brxl Iranl pamphlet ol the Arnerrcan Revolulron, Hrs words rn Common Sense rerrlecled lungrngs and asprratrons that have rerrrarned part ol Amerrcan culture to thus day. DANIEL WEBSTER chose law as a career and went on to becornewell-known rn the courts and rn polrtrcs He was lwrce Secretary ol State wllh an eye always to the Presl- dency whrch eluded hrm. , Q l X , Chrel lustrce IUHN MARSHALL establrshed fundamental prrnclples ol Arnerrcan constrtutrunal law. Hers noted lor hrs precedental declaratron ol a Congresslonal acl as unconstrtutronal He served through lrve adrnrnrstra- trons,lrorn18U1f1835 ABRAHAM LINCOLN eprlprnrzed lhe Arnerrcarl dream ol a humble young rnan ascendrng to the hrghest ollrce ol the land He was superbly skrlled at analyzrng complex rs sues and translatrng them rnto meanrnglul words lor lhe publrc He was devoted to the preservalron ol lhe Unron. Born a slave rn Maryland. FREDERICK DOUGLASS laughl nrmsell to read and wrrte secretly and.al 21. escaped to freedom He was an ardent abolrtlonrst campargnrng successlully lor Negro sullrage and crvrl rrghts HARRIET BEECHER STOWE wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin rn an ellort to make the whole natron realrze the rnhurnanr- ly ol slavery, Her book resulted rn one ol the rnost popu- lar and controversral plays on the Arrrerlcan stage The Crvrl War was krndled by thrs work I l DOROTHEA DIX worked her entrre adult lrle lor relorm ol the exrstrng penal and mental lnstrlulruns rn the mud' 1800's The lrrsl slate hosprtal rn the natron at Trenton, New lersey was a drrect result ol her ellorts The New Colossus. a sonnet composed by EMMA LAZ- ARUS rn 1883 rs rnscrrbed on a bronze tablet at the base of the Statue ol Lrberty She organrzed relrel lor Jews and helped tugrtrves lrorn the Czar's ghettos to estalxlrsh hornes rn Arnerrca. 1 l The creator ol the Cherokee alphabet, SEQUOVAH, was an artrst, wrrler and srlversmrth. He used a srmple 1821 English prrmer to compose the characters. The famous redwood trees ol the Pacrlrc coast hear hrs name. AMELIA IENKS BLOOMER, best known lor a mode ol dress she adopted durrng her campalgn lor equal rrghls lor women Though rrdrculed untrl she gave up lhe cos, lume, the term bloorner carne to symbolrze woman's brd lor rndrvrdual lreedom l HDRACE GREELEYS admonrtron to Go West young man was a rallyrng cry ol the proneers al Amerrca. He was lounder and edrtor ol the New York Trrbune He was best known lor has phrlosophy ol socral relorrn and hrs unsuccesslul brd lor the Presrdency rn 1872 IOSEPH FULITZER was the lust rournalrst to reach a tru- ly rrrassrve audrence Hrs New York World newspaper was the symbol ol yellow rournalrsmu wrth rls sensatronal- rsm armed at the common man

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