Frankton High School - Eaglite Yearbook (Frankton, IN)

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Playback PLAYBACK '76—Nineteen hun- dred and seventy-six: a once-in-a lifetime for America and for Frankton High School. A 200th birthday and a special year, full of fun, work, spirit—and memories. Join the celebration and Play- back '76. Colonization of the United States began in the 1600’s. Times were hard for the new Americans and they wanted more freedom from Britain, which had colonized the “new land”. In 1775 the American “minutemen fired the first shot of the Revolutionary War. This began the Early Na- tional Period which stressed the freedom of the country. Following Lincoln's election in 1860, southern states seceded from the Union to form the Confederate States of Amer- ica. The Civil War began. In 1917, America entered WWI on the Allied side. This was the U.S.’ first large-scale use of military planes. In 1927, Charles A. Linbergh achieved the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight. The next year, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Later in our aviation history,

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in 1961, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first American to walk on the moon. Conflict, as always, played a continuous part in the nation's history. A sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941, brought the U.S. into WWII. Yet another war—in 1965 the U.S. involvement in Vietnam began. It was one of the most controversial issues in U.S. history. Recently, in 1972, Richard M. Nixon was re-elected by a landslide over George McGovern, only to resign two years later in the face of politi- cal scandal and extreme unpopularity. For the first time the Ameri- can people were led by two men not of their choosing Ger- ald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller. And that's the way it was . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS Student Life...............8 Faculty, Staff............22 Students..................31 Sports....................66 Clubs.....................86 Advertisements...........106 Index....................132 Acknowledgements.........136 r JI