Carroll High School - Anchor Yearbook (Corpus Christi, TX)

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Colonial ha+s 'lop off fhe celebrafion of Beniamin Franlrlin's birfhday, January I7, for Kosforyz Elemen+ary firsl graders. lFar righfl The sfudenfs are Richard Garcia, Tonya Young, Eileen Longoria, Sherry Giddens, Eddie Fernandez and MaH Trevino. Surrounded by Secref Service men, Presiden+ Ford ducks behind his limousine afler a second a'Hemp+ was made on his life, al' fhe S+. Francis Hofel in San Francisco Sepfember 22. W A U.S. marshal offers 'lo lend Pa+'l'y Hears+ a hand as she ge+s ou+ ofa car a+ fhe Federal Courl House in San Francisco. The young newspaper heiress was on irial for banlc robbery affer being kidnapped by fhe Symbionese Liberafion Army. Newly appoin'I'ed ambassador fo Greal' Brifain, Anne Arms'I'rong bids Sou'I'h Texas goodbye al' a luncheon held in her honor al 'lhe Counfry Club. 56 - Aclivilies I ei Yu! -il'-a 333'- T. .. .Drag . if W, ,lla age- - 1-- www .,,,1g, '- Www sl ff! 'Q N sl

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x xx xx X . is .3 13 'iii ra Deciding when To Take whaT class comes Being measured 'For his morTarboard by easier To Susan Goeke wiTh The help of Mr. James Sorsby makes Johnny Solis The Third quarTer schedule primed in realize ThaT he is nearing The end of The Carroller. his high school years. Black Hisfory Week honored In cooperaTion wiTh The BicenTennial CommiTTee oT Corpus ChrisTi, The Thespians presenTed a special program celebraTing The BicenTennial of The Negro in America during Black l'lisTory Week, February 9- I4. They combined poeTry oT black poeTs, music, songs and dance To reTlecT The ThoughTs of MargariT Wallcer's poem For My People and performed Their show enTiTled SomeThing All Our Own aT WesT Oso, Ray, Carroll and Moody. ln school acTiviTies seniors goT a sTep closer To graduaTion, when They regisTered Tor The lasT Time before The sTarT oT The spring quarTer. AnoTher annual acTiviTy was spiced up and noT iusT wiTh chili powder. Live enTerTainmenT provided by The Carroll choir and sTage band, pianisT John PrenTiss, The Schanen Ukeleles and The King sTage band added a liTTle someThing exTra To The band's Mexican supper. Early Spring - 55

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craTic presidenTial candidaTe nT Shriver, accompanied by SecreT e agenTs, campaigns in Corpus ifor a place on The May I iry baIIoT. ying salvaged belongings 'From The e of Their village, woman residenTs n Pedro SacaTepequez begin To sTarT ives a'FTer a massive earThq uake cGuaTemaIa on February 4. Brifain gains Texan envoy IT was a year oT headline-makers. There were reappearances, Trials and an earThquake ThaT Tound iTs way inTo The record books. On February 4 an earThquake oT record proporTions hiT near GuaTemaIa CiTy, The capiTaI oT 6uaTemala. By March I casuaITies were esTimaTed aT I8,000, mainly buried in mass graves. PaTricia I'IearsT, daughTer oT millionaire newspaperman Randolph I-IearsT, puT in a dramaTic reappearance approximaTely I9If2 monThs aTTer her kidnapping in February, I974. ATTer her capTure SepTember 25, she was puT on Trial Tor a bank robbery commiTTed while allegedly a member oT The SLA, a revoluTionary group. EIlioT Richardson was replaced as ambassador To GreaT BriTain by Anne ArmsTrong, wiTe oT SouTh Texas rancher Tobin ArmsTrong. Mrs. ArmsTrong became The TirsT woman To hold The posT. AT The WinTer Olympics in Innsbruck, AusTria, America Tinished Third, wiTh a ToTal oT IO medals. DoroThy Hamill, Three Time U.S. Tigure- skaTing champion, Took a gold medal in The women's Tigure-skaTing evenT. America's oTher Two golds were won by Sheila Young and PeTer Mueller, Tor speed-skaTing. Texas' newly esTablished DemocraTic primary broughT one oT The I I DemocraTic presidenTial hopeTuIs To Corpus ChrisTi January 25. SargenT Shriver made a speaking engagemenT wiTh a local group parT oT a campaign Trip. Two aTTempTs were made on PresidenT Ford's IiTe in I975. On SepTember I I, in SacramenTo, LyneTTe Squeaky Fromme, a member oT The Charles Manson Family responsible Tor The Sharon TaTe murders oT I969, was arresTed aTTer The gun she poinTed aT The PresidenT misfired. Eleven days laTer, a Tormer FBI imformer, Sara Jane Moore, Tired a shoT aT The PresidenT. Tragedy was averTed by a bysTander who dragged her arm down in Time. BoTh women were senTenced To IiTe imprisonmenT. CurrenT EvenTs 57