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

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Mr. Wolfgram serves at Principal's Tea. Homecoming Queen Marty at the dance. the books in September. Homecoming Court and Escorts: Donna Williams, Greg Anthony, Bobbie Pohto, John Colak, Jody Hummer, Keith Danko, Laurie Daniels, Bob Kern, Marty Bruggeman, Paul Lovejoy. Mentor holds its Homecoming. The football team loses the game . . . The Russian Gymnastics Team visits Mentor as part of an exhibition tour of the U.S. ... In the midst of the Nixon-McGovern campaign, the “Watergate Incident”, or the bugging of the Democratic National Headquarters by a group of Republicans, is revealed. Along with the Vietnam War and the economy, Watergate becomes a major campaign issue . . . Mentor High's “Academic Challenge” team comes in second on that scholarly television quiz show . . . On the 25th, Henry Kissinger, the U.S. negotiator at the Paris peace talks, announces that Peace is at hand” in Vietnam. November . . . Nixon beats McGovern soundly, in Mentor as in most of the country . . . Inter-Club Council, consisting of a representative from each MHS organization, is organized under the direction of Mr. Trusso. . . The Dow Jones Industrial Average passes 1000 . . . The Vietnam peace negotiations fall through . . . Thirteen students attend a School Board meeting, and question the validity of the dress code. Discussions are held, and the administration does not change the code. . . For all students with a first nine weeks average of 3.8+, the Principal’s Tea is held . . . The Choirs and Orchestra par-ticipate in the annual Thanksgiving Concert ... A twenty-mile March of Dimes Pledgewalk is held . . . The Women’s Lib magazine, MS., grows in popularity . . . The Fall Sports Banquet is given, and team members receive their scrapbooks ... A recycling center is opened at the Great Lakes Mall. 17

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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

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December . . . Great Britain enters the Common Market . . . The Junior Class, aided by Mr. Ron Rose, sponsors a “Brownsville Station” rock concert . . . Sophomores order their class rings . . . Seniors order their caps and gowns . . . Choirs hold their annual Christmas Concert . . . National Honor Society inducts 36 juniors and seniors . . . Sixteen survivors of a plane crash in the Andes are rescued after a 73-day ordeal during which they survived by the cannibalism of those who died in the crash . . . Apollo 17, the last Apollo, spends three days on the moon . . . The Senior Court’s Christmas tree is literally “ripped off” during the night . . . Harry S Truman, Former U.S. President, dies of heart complications . . . Huge snowstorm immobilizes area and causes a three-day postponement of the GAA Formal . . . Howard Wolfgram, MHS principal, dies of a sudden heart attack. The A Cappella choir sings at his funeral . . . Over 6,000 die in an earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua . . . President Nixon orders a two-week saturation bombing of North Vietnam. January . . . Ms. Helen (Sue) Osborn is elected School Board president . . . School Neighborhood Action Committee (SNACC) is reorganized to provide two-way communication between the schools and the community . . . Some seniors order graduation announcements . . . The annual PTA Circus is held in the high school gym. Proceeds from the event go to the Marching Band uniform fund . . . Instrumental music groups participate in the Wolfgram Memorial Concert, held to raise money for a memorial scholarship fund. School, community mourns Mr. Wolfgram's death. Brownsville Station singer Wolfgram Memorial performers. 18