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Headlines Nineteen hundred and sixty-three was the year of the Faith 7, of Gordon Cooper’s twenty-two orbital space flight, of the Alliance for Progress, and of the Peace Corps. It was also the year of our entry into Bristol Senior High School. We will remember with amusement our early weeks of confusion and bewilderment; but certainly we will remember with sorrow that November day when we left classes and learned of the assassination of our president, John F. Kennedy. Through our first year, our progress was marked with many headlines, some tragic, some hopeful. In September, 1964, when as juniors we re-entered Bristol High, we studied or relaxed with the news of the America’s Cup Races, the Goldwater-Johnson election, and the triumphs of the Beatles and the Beachboys. We spent this year of Civil Rights marches, Medicare legislation, and Urban Renewal enjoying our ever increasing roles in school activities. It was our year to be club officers, cheerleaders, lettermen, or newspaper reporters. June and our first summer of employment and of weekend surfing came quickly. Headlines of riots, of unrest in Southeast Asia, of a new peak of national prosperity greeted us as we returned to our classes. With incredible speed, our third Halloween Dance, our third class elections, and our third Christmas Dance passed by. We composed some headlines of our own through winning the Eastern Division football championship. As seniors, we gained new importance, new self-reliance. Our outstanding class effort was our musical, “Oklahoma.” January, 1966, marked our last clash with high school mid-year exams. As headlines of the Great Society, of the Viet Nam conflict, and of a record high national budget ushered us into spring, we began to make our own plans for the future—finding careers and entering colleges. Finally, June arrived; and we passed our last exams, waltzed and frugged away our last class dance, and attended our last assemblies. Each basketball game, each sock hop, each edition of the Pegasus took on the new importance of being the last for us. Then came that very special final week, with our class banquet, class day, and graduation ceremony. We were the last class to graduate from the marble and brick buildings on Hope Street. As we left Bristol High School for the final time, we were ready to become the writers of the headlines of the future. 12
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