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

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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

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MosT any sTudenT planning on going n To a higher school had a speciTic ollege in mind. Some sTudenTs planned n going To UT, oThers To UCLA, A8al or arvard. There was also a TighTly-kniT rlique ThaT was TaiThTul To Texas A8fIv1, The Aggies. A proud group, Those Aggies. veryThing They owned, in TacT. was mblazoned wiTh The Texas AEM logo, and -yas poTenTial maTerial Tor Aggie iolces. So widespread was Their inTluence ThaT The Carroll band even played The Aggie War Hymn. Gig 'emi a c -1 '73 E Q . is . i2-7-'37 STudying wasn'T sTudying wiThouT a 'adio. Relaxing wasn'T relaxing wiThouT bunch oT Triends. And comTorT wasn'T omTorT wiThouT a pair oT Blue Jeans. T Blue Jeans dominaTed a maior parT PT a sTudenT's wardrobe. One did everyThing in Blue Jeans. T They were worn Tor dancing, playing, Tlunking and doodling. , The more Taded The leans. The oeTTer. T Nobody Threw away Blue Jeans Trom The previous year. BuT if a person was liesperaTe Tor money. Blue Jeans could Tae Traded in or sold. BuT woe To The wearer wiTh The new pair oT leans. Breaking in was hard To do. V lac Jan One oT The besT places To go on a hoT Corpus ChrisTi summer day was The Beach, where Carroll sTudenTs pursued such TavoriTe acTiviTies as surTing, swimming, sTarTish-collecTing, sunbaThing girl-waTching and guy-waTching. AlThough The movie Jaws may have scared some people away Trom The waTer. iT didn'T seem To keep anyone OTT The Beach. MeeTing Triends aT Million Dollar was Tun, iT was easy, and besT oT all, iT was Tree. Alpha beT - 59