Central High School - Pemican Yearbook (High Point, NC)

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PERSPECTIVE: RELATING the Bicentennial through our pride and our pocketbooks. Facet 1: Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of a dollar. This commercialization stood out as a characteristic of our Bicentennial year according to 9496 of our surveyed students. Since an event like this comes only once every two hundred years, businesses hit the buy- ing public with everything from starred and striped comode seats to flag adorned coffins. The Bicentennial provided a sales gimmick that appealed to our patriotism and loyalty. We began buying jewelry, T-shirts, jeans, etc. adorned with stars and stripes, '76's, American flags, and every American symbol, all in red, white, and blue. Everywhere we turned, we were surrounded by the Spirit of '76. The city buses were repainted into the fashionable red, white, and blue. North State Telephone Company pictured the Liberty Bell on the phone books. The High Point fire hydrants were also paint- ed red, white, and blue. And as July 4th approached, we grew more and more aware of what happened ZOO years ago today . . Central added its own to America's birthday with a beard growing contest and a Bisontennial Homecom- ing theme. Looking at the Bicentennial in different perspective, how- ever, aroused our enthusiasm once again. Nineteen hun- dred seventy-six was a year that brought Americans to- gether with a sense of unity and pride. It was a year for people to pause and think about the ideals and beliefs our country was founded on. We were celebrating the birth of America, our home, a free and independent nation no long- er ruled by foreigners. We became one of the most powerful democratic countries in the world. We had done with our resources and imaginations what others had failed to do. We ventured out into a wilderness, developed it, and used it to make a great nation. We fought for this America, and we won it. No matter how commercialized or overdone the Bicentennial seemed, we knew that the true meaning could not be lost or forgotten. Americans had something to be proud of . . . two hundred years of the pursuit and fulfill- ment of a dream . . . One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. America's Birthday Presents 20 OLUTIO ed Neo 5 'Q E F-T11 X9 5 P76 -1976 tit-ki-A, 'fiktit

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Crowd Pleasers BISON CHEERLEADERS thrill the crowd during the Student-Faculty basketball game. ATTENTIVE AUDIENCES are welcomed by assembly performers. of DISPLAYING HIS talent in dramatic ART TEACHER Michael Robbins shoots for the faculty team as Charles Hartsoe leaps to foil his attempt interpretation, Tom Latimer portrays The Emperor Jones. 19

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