Mentor High School - Cardinal Notes Yearbook (Mentor, OH)

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The following six pages comprise an “overview” of our school year. Through these pages, we can remember the events of the year, both inside and outside of the school. This year, like all years, was a period of changes and continuances, conflicts and harmonies. Hopefully, in looking over the year as a whole, we can gain a perspective on its events. 15

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September . . . Mentor schools open on the 5th .. . “Freedom with Responsibility” is this year’s theme at the high school. Study halls are abolished for upperclassmen — instead they may choose where they want to go in the “Student Center”. Upperclassmen also have the option of early dismissal, if their classes are scheduled in the first 12 or 14 modules of the day. Last spring, students were able to write their own schedules, as the school used a college-type” registration system for the first time . . . Campaigning for the November election is getting under way. For the Presidency, Democratic Senator George McGovern is running against the Republican incumbent, Richard Nixon . . . The 4.13 mill Bond Issue, which would have provided for an expanded high school of the “school within a school on a single site” concept, fails ... In the World Series, the Oakland Athletics beat the Cincinnati Reds in seven games . . . The MHS Fighting Cardinal Marching Band participates in the 5th Annual Stars and Stripes Marching Band Festival at Memorial Field . . . The first “open” Student Council at MHS is organized. All students are invited to participate. October . . . Sophomores elect their class officers . . . Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a parable about a seagull who learns the meaning and value of freedom, and I’m O.K. — You're O.K., an introduction to transactional analysis, top the book bestseller lists. A March of Dimes walker crosses the finish line. 16