Hamilton High School - Agi H Eco Yearbook (Hamilton, AL)

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Kent Palmer Jaunita Pope Chris Posey Tommy Posey Steve Raburn Randy Rawls Tammy Ray Beth Riggs Curtis Rivers Darryl Rye w ' Brent Sanderson Joey Sherrill Stanley Shotts Kevin Sims Kenny Smith tSolid South' Melts ln 4976 Carter won over Ford by 50.4 percent of the total vote. He carried twenty-three states plus the district of Columbia to end it with 297 electoral votes. The incumbent, President Ford, carried twenty-seven states and received 240 electoral votes, and in that election an elector from Washington State cast one vote for Ronald Reagan. ln 4980 the tables turned, he who had been least in votes suddenly became the greatest, and the greatest became the least. Reagan was named victor with A89 electoral votes out of a possible 538, thus defeating Carter's A9 electoral votes. The south, often thought of as democratic in nature, surprised many by voting in the majority for Reagan with only West Virginia and Georgia CCarter's home statej voting in favor of the incumbent President. Former President Jimmy Carter addresses the crowds at his campaign kick off in Tuscumbia. QPhoto provided by Florence Times-Trl-Cities Dailyj Sophomores Pa-Sm

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VVeaTher Year Proves Unusual Snow of a very minimal amounT, more rain Than usual, and heaT of unusually high degrees during The summer monThs marked The 4980 weaTher calender. To say The word heaT in reference To The summer of 4980 is noT To grasp The ToTal meaning of The experience of ThaT summer. To have been in HamiITon on July The l5Th and 'i7Th was To undersTand. On Those Two days, TemperaTures reached and exceeded The T00 degree mark conTinuing To rise unTil reaching 407 degrees, The high poinT of The year's TemperaTure climb. The majoriTy of July was spenT wiTh TemperaTures in excess of 400 degrees. Rain Too, was an unusual mark of 4980. The normal average rainfall was 55.5 inches. The year surpassed This wiTh a 6896 inches ToTal aT year's end. Two unidenfmed boys argue wiTh Their moTher abouT geTTing ouT of The rain during The Red Bay game. ii as .giggg Linda McKay Rodney MeTcalf Janice Miller Michele Miller Jackie Millican IQHMPNK 5 In X , . Jimmy Mills Alan Minga Wade Nichols Lisa Nix ..'wForNp 36' Dale NorTham Sophomores Mc-No 435

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Mallnew Sprague Lisa Sleerzer Lesa Slone Cindy Sluarl Teresa Suddiln Myra Swindle, Reporler Felicia Taylor Gail Taylor Kim Taylor Bruce Thompson Wendy Walker Rodney Walson Cindy Walls Sandy Walls Mary Weaver Linda Webb Carl Weeks Clark Weeks, Presidenl Neil Wesl Roberl Wiginlon Darlene Williams James Williams Rodney Williams Tammy Williams Dee Wilson Jay Wilson Doug Young Sopnomores Sp Yo 437