Cathedral High School - Pantherpix Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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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.

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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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Democrats strengthen their con- gressional majority after the November elections, gaining more than 2 3 of the House vote. 1 Ella Grasso becomes the first woman governor whose husband did not precede her in office. Racial trou- ble breaks out in Boston as a result of court-ordered bussing. For the first time at CHS: seniors are allowed to leave study halls; tuition is projected for ’75-’76 school year; a CHS team reap- pears on the ‘‘As Schools Match Wits’ TV quiz program. The troubled and happy events of our high school years are in the past. It remains for us to answer the question, ‘‘Where do we go from here?” 13 Glass and steel: symbols of fu- ture construction 14 Gas masks: will pollution get this bad? 15 Wich- ita skyline: shapes of the future 16 Absurd gravity: vision of a topsy- turvy world 17 Arafat: Palestinian representative? 18 Hungry Ethiopi- an child: symbol of the world food crisis 19 Comedian Jack Benny: dies at 80 20 Pope Paul: opening the Holy Year 21 Howard Cosell and Billie Jean King: sports world personalities 22 Episcopalian priests: forcing tradition’s hand 23 Nelson Rockefeller: sworn in as Vice-President. 19