Cathedral High School - Pantherpix Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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14 1 Mexican drug raid 2 Mark Spitz: record-hold- ing medalist 3 1972 Summer Games in Munich 4 Apollo 17: the last planned moon launch 5 Nixon and Tanaka 6 Captain Spotless and Kid Cleanup: environmental awareness 7 POW's: a long awaited return 8 George Wallace: a campaign ended 9 MASH: TV’s adaptation of a hit movie 10 Charlie Chaplin: return from exile 11 Ryan O’- Neal and Tatum in Paper Moon 12 Sensational- ist Alice Cooper. The Vietnam conflict draws to a close after a period of stepped-up military activity. Although Henry Kissinger proclaims ‘‘peace at hand’’ in October, full-scale bombing of North Vietnam resumed in December. Howev- er, secret peace talks in Paris are resumed by Kissinger and N. Vietnam’s LeDuc Tho, anda cease-fire agreement is signed in January. The US and Russia conclude important agreements. A three-year trade pact is signed in October, and Brezhnev and Nixon design agreement to avert nuclear war after talks in June. Arab terrorists break into Israeli quarters at the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany, eleven are killed. North Ireland Protestants

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Death toll reaches 43. Holy Coss be- comes the last Jesu- it school to admit women. A women’s rights amendment to the Constitution is passed by the Senate. J. Edgar CHS in October. Sr. Loretto Thomas starts Cathedral’s Career Center. The Frosh football team is the smallest ever. The Hockey and Gym- nastic teams capture West- ern Mass. crowns. Cathedral conducts its first annual observance of Earth Day in May. 13 Pieta: a work of art desecrated 14 Robert Redford: ‘‘A star is born” 15 The Lennons in concert 16 Superstar: a rock opera 17 McGovern supporters 18 McGovern and child: the Democrat- ic hopeful 19 Cathy Rigby: America’s new star gymnast 20 Feminist Bella Abzug 21 Consumers: meat boycott 22 Vietnam: a painful reality 23 Fritz the Cat: newest craze in cartoons. Hoover, director of the FBI, dies in May. The name ‘‘Water- gate’’ comes to public atten- tion as police arrest five men for burglary at Democratic National Headquarters in Washington. Major league (baseball) players strike in April. The Apollo 16 moon shot lifts off in April. A rotating schedule is used at Cathedral for the first time in September. Senator Edward Kennedy visits Us!

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13 Watergate Committee: ‘‘Uncov- ering the Cover-up” 14 Peter Falk: TV’s unsophisticated sleuth 15 Secretariat; “Super Horse” 16 Hen- ry Kissinger: foreign affairs advisor 17 Wheat shortage 18 Agnew’s res- ignation: first in a long line 19 Mar- tha Mitchell: the mouth that roared 20 Nixon: landslide victory 21 Jack Anderson: scathing reporter 22 Highest average 23 Pippen: A razz- matazz musical hit. choose to remain part of the United Kingdom, while Catholics boycott this vote. The US supplies air support Ay. wholesale price per bushel ‘xports in millions of bushels as heavy fighting erupts in Cambodia. President Nixon wins re-election in a landslide victory; he carries 49 of the 50 states. Wage and price controls are removed in January. For- mer presidents Truman and Johnson die. The Senate Wat- ergate Committee is estab- lished in February. Administra- tion members Haldeman, Er- lichman, Kleindeinst, and Dean resign, and the Senate Select Committee on Presiden- tial Campaign Activities con- venes under Senator Sam Er- vin. Members of the American Indian Movement seize the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. The soccer squad wins State and Western Mass titles. Sr. Rose Carmel wins the Na- tional Teachers’ Award. Coach Al Cece leaves CHS; John Mich- alak becomes head football coach in May. 15