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

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20 March . . . Some community members protest the use of filmstrips on abortion in marriage and family living classes, declaring the presen-tation pro-abortion. Classroom materials are presented to the public at a special PTA meeting. The school board defends the use of the filmstrips, citing board policy that both sides of a controversial issue should be presented to students . . . With “The Godfather” as “best picture”, Liza Minelli and Marlon Brando win Academy Awards as best actress and actor. Brando refuses his award, protesting the treatment of American Indians . . . School superintendent Dr. Hemberger resigns to become Rye, N.Y., superintendent. . . Top 25 goes on Washington, D.C., goodwill tour. April . . . Protesting the skyrocketing price of food, a week-long, nation-wide consumers’ meat boycott is held. Many buyers boycott, but prices generally remain stable ... Pablo Picasso, the renowned artist, dies in France at age 91 . . . In a day-long series of assemblies, Dr. Hemberger and Dr. Bodsen compare American and European modes of education. May . . . As a result of the Watergate incident, Presidential aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and Attorney General Kleindienst resign. The President’s chief counsel, John Dean, is fired . . . The Watergate affair dominates the news. Hearings of the Senate select committee investigating the incident are televised. Top Administration officials are implicated as knowing about the bugging plans and or the cover-up. Vo-hort winners at State Horticulture Contest: Mike Sopko, Bob Tripepi, Mike Mathias, Karen Homitz. Not pictured are Rick Schick and Gary Woidtke. Songwriter and singer Michael Stanley.

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Lyndon B. Johnson, former U.S. President, dies at his Texas ranch of a heart attack . . . President Nixon announces the Vietnam ceasefire agreement. National and world reaction is positive, but not jubilant. Some are dubious that the peace will last. The agreement includes provisions that within sixty days all U.S. troops shall be withdrawn from South Vietnam and all American P.O.W.’s shall be returned . . . The Miami Dolphins beat the Washington Redskins in the Super Bowl . . . The Supreme Court rules on abortions, stating that any performed within the first three months of pregnancy are legal . . . Ms. Ruth Gooding, an administrative assistant, is named as acting principal of Mentor High. February . . . The Student Coalition jam session is held with little organization and few musicians . . . American prisoners of war who had been imprisoned in North Vietnam are released in groups . . . The SNACC telephone and mail survey of local residents concerning views on the unsuccessful September school bond levy is taken . . . HEMLOCK, an alternative school newspaper written and published by a group of students, is distributed at the high school ... In an unseasonable warm spell, temperatures reach the 60’s and 70’s . . . Mentor High’s wrestlers finish first in the sectional and district meets . . . James Thurber’s play THE MALE ANIMAL is presented three nights in A-lecture. Mr. Robert Jay is the director, and Chuck Jones and Cindy Birchfield play the starring roles. 19 Wrestling is the most-followed winter sport.

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A 7.0-mill school renewal levy passes easily . . . The American Indian Movement’s eight-week takeover of Wounded Knee ends in a negotiated settlement with the government . . . Warnings of an “energy crisis” are voiced, and oil companies claim they are running out of gas. In some areas, gas rationing occurs . . . Plans for “Superbird”, an experimental section of the high school next year, are announced and participants are chosen by random selection ... A student radio station, WZRO, begins broadcasting music and announcements each morning . . . The junior class holds a rock concert in the gym featuring Michael Stanley . . . Former Attorney General Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Stans are indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to obstruct justice, conspiring to defraud the U.S., and perjury . . . The Pentagon Papers case is declared a mistrial, due to the Government’s “improper conduct . . . The Art Club sponsors a three-day exhibit and sale . . . The Junior-Senior Prom is held. June . . . Britain’s Princess Anne is engaged ... Dr. Charles Grottenthaler, school superintendent in Uniontown, Pa., is named as the New Mentor chief. . . The three Skylab astronauts, on a 28-day space voyage, are plagued by their craft’s mechanical difficulties . . . Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes, thus becoming horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner in 25 years . . . The Awards Assembly is held on a Sunday night . . . MHS graduates 743 in gym . . . It is predicted that millions will starve due to drought in several Southeast Asian and African nations. 21