Camden High School - Gold and Black Yearbook (Camden, SC)

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Enjoying her work at the Kershaw County Library, junior loanie Lawson shelves returned books. Wlhmrmmi qs mi iq. ..., Working as a bag boy at Winn-Dixie, Senior Kevin Branham pushes a customer's grocery cart. As a saleslady, Senior Hanna Delleney straightens the yarn rack at Edward's Department Store. Students' jobs 15

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This year we really became involvedin our local, state, and national govern- ments, especially in elections. Politics was a common topic' for conversations, class discussion, andarguments. Everybody had opinions. s . a g Locally, we looked forward to Tuesday, November 5, because it was Election Day AND because we had a whole day out of School just for it. , That night, after many weeks of cam- paigns, the votes were counted. L. L. Hector DeBruhl took a third term as Kershaw County Sheriff, after an exten- sive campaign against,Mr. Melvin Reeves. Retired DuPont May Plant manager Wil- liam F. Tripp, lr. and insurance agent Cha rl ie B. Peebles won seats on the County Council. Radio announcer.Cecil A. Bowers was elected coroner. Mr. Ernest Coker, Mrs..Barbara Truesdale, Mr. Charles McGuirt, and Mrs. Betty Burns took new seats on our school board. Cam- den attorney Ken Holland was elected as United States Representative from the Fifth District, defeating Len Phillips of Lancaster. That election was over and these would be the local names we would hear for the next few years. 1974 was also an election year for South Carolina's governor. Therun-off primary on lvuly 30 chose State Senator lames B. Edwards as Republican nominee for gov- ernor and banker Charles D. Pug Ravenel as Democratic nominee, both of 'Charleston County. Cars were plastered with stickers for both Ravenel and Edwards, and many of us pitched in to help by passing out stickers 'and pamphlets. But we could hardly be- lieve that Ravenel and his dream for South Carolina had been disqualified be- cause of a failure to meet the five-year residency requirement for governor. United States Representative W. l. Bryan Dorn then took Ravenel's place in .the race, bringing with him twenty-six years of experience. Evidently this experi- ence did not influence South Carolina voters, because Edwards defeated Dorn for the governorship, making more his- tory. For the first time in 100 years, our state had a Republican governor. Looking ahead, we thought, we'll be able to vote in the next governor's elec- tion. Only time can tell what will happen in four years. . On Thursday, August 8, 1 974, we were shocked by the news that our 37th presi- dent, Richard M. Nixon, resigned. This was the first time ever in American history fthat a president had resigned, and it had happened during OUR lifetime. Little did we know this time last year that Gerald R. iFord would be president of the United States now. That iust shows us that history is being made all around us, and it's not just something we read about in Mr. ,Culp's history class.