Cathedral High School - Pantherpix Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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respectively. Rings are distrib- £ uted to 678 members of the class of ’75. The Student Rep- a ww resentative Board is organized OY a Sones . 5) gal, | in October. Mr. Edward Smith, i (7 io } -. om Business Manager, dies in ip ‘. | : ii aol ‘i December. Mr. Hen- ry Parent, Dean of students, is hospital- ized after suffering a stroke. Michael Shameklis, a gradu- ate of Cathedral, returns to CHS as a Buddhist monk. The Readak reading 13 Cesar Chavez: farmworkers’ ral- ly at CHS 14 Bishop Weldon: shar- ing experiences 15 The Great Gats- by: Mia Farrow and Robert Redford 16 President Ford: taking the oath of office 17 John Denver: ‘‘Thank God I’m a Country Boy”’ 18 Patty Hearst: kidnapping or conspiracy? 19 Alexander Solzhenitsyn: an au- thor exiled 20 Nixon: resigning the Presidency 21 John Dean: taking the oath 22 The Kennedys: a united family 23 Hank Aaron: new home- run king. improvement course is intro- duced. The Drill Team comes to a halt after twenty-four years of service. President Ford visits Asia in November: talks with Brezhnev lead to a breakthrough in the arms race; Japan and Korea also host the President.

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16 President Nixon orders mandatory fuel allo- cations to avert energy crisis, but oil-pro- ducing Arab countries join in an embargo on petroleum exports. Russian author Alek- sandr Solzhenitzyn publishes The Gulag Archipelago concerning prison camps in Russia during the time of Stalin: he is ex- iled. French president George Pompidou dies in April. Spiro Agnew is first to resign; Gerald Ford is sworn in to replace him two months later. Skylab II astro- nauts return from a record 59- day stay in space. Interest in ex- orcism greatly increases as a result of The Exorcist, a novel by William Blatty. Patricia Hearst, 1 Billy Jean and Bobby: a battle of the sexes 2 Attack on presidential palace: Al- lende killed 3Terrorists in the forefront 4 Gas: expensive and scarce 5 Skylab 6 Fashions: sparkle shirts 7 Two extremes of the sporting world 8 Kissinger and Brezhnev 9 Israel and Syria: a fight for land 10 Hunger: an all too real threat 11 Nixon with Wright, Ervin and Baker 12 Mother seeking food in the Sub-Sahara region. daughter of the wealthy Ran- dolph Hearst, is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Streaking becomes popular on college campuses in March. Former Administra- tion members Haldeman, Ehr- lichman, and Mitchell are in- dicted in the Watergate trials. Hank Aaron hits his 714th home run, tying Babe Ruth’s record. Sr. Alice Kenney and Sr. Patricia Feeley become Principal and Vice-Principal

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18 1 Ford and Brezhnev: detente 2 Minorities: victims of recession 3 Ali: back at the top 4 Kissinger: Middle East reconciler 5 Valerie Harper: TV’s Rhoda 6 Sugar: infla- tion’s latest symbol 7 Nixon: defeated 8 Ella Grasso: first woman governor whose husband did not precede her in office 9 Bussing violence: South Boston 10 Con- troversy: rights or racism 11 Evel Knievel: hero or hoax? 12 The telephone: a future of confused communications? The world food crisis worsens; the World Food Conference meets in Rome. The Middle East situation remains tense; ‘‘war jit- ters’’ provoke brief skirmishes. Cyclone Tracy causes great de- struction in Darwin, Australia, on Christmas Day, 1974. Pope Paul proclaims 1975 the Holy Year. Its theme; renewal and reconcilia- tion. Nelson Rockefeller becomes Vice-President. Unemployment rises, especially in the auto indus- try, as the economy slumps. In- flation worsens; sugar prices soar 400%. The CIA is accused of domestic spying; investiga- tion results. Haldeman, Ehr- lichman, Mitchell, and Mardian are convicted in the Watergate trial. Jack Benny dies of can- cer at age 80. Breast cancer comes to public attention as a result of the successful opera- tions on Betty Ford and Happy Rockefeller. Lt. Calley, the only man convicted for the May Lai massacre, is paroled.