Coolidge High School - President Yearbook (Coolidge, AZ)

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Two hundred years ago our country was formed by a few men wanting justice and freedom for all. Now the year 1776 is the most important year in United States history. It is also one of the most important years in world history, for that one country changed the course of events more than anything else in history. Naturally the years 1975-76 are equally special to us being our nation's two hundreth birthday. The bicentennial is a very great accomplishment for the United States, for no other government on this earth has been able to function under a single constitution for more than two hundred years. Our constitution is now one hundred eighty-nine years old. So far it has proved itself over and over again as supreme in withstanding all of the trials put before it. Now, the next few years will prove if it is better than any other government ever conceived on this earth. 1975 is also another special year. It marks the fiftieth anniversary of our town Coolidge. Coolidge started out as a lonely stop along the Southern Pacific Railroad mainline to Phoenix. That, however, and the existence of Coolidge Dam combined to produce a town now of seventy-two hundred people. Coolidge's history doesn't just begin fifty years ago, however. It started hundreds of years ago with the building of the Casa Grande ruins by the Ho Ho Kam Indians. And even while patriots in the thirteen colonies were fighting the British, the future site of Coolidge was being visited by the Anza expedition from Mexico. Arizona eventually became a territory of the United States, and later a state. Coolidge's growth followed right along, growing as Arizona did. Now, in this bicentennial year, we hope that both can continue to grow. We also hope that the beliefs of two hundred years ago haven't been forgotten, but instead still exist. Only time, however, can give us the answers to these questions, and so we must wait and watch the course of events.

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' he, to everything there isa season I -.' ,eie , ,f.r L .f ,Vt Wai? - Ma., . - 1 To everything there is a season, and'a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be bom, and a time to dieg a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted, A time to kill, and a time to heal: a time to break down, and a time to build upg A time to weep, and a time to laugh, a time to mourn, and a time to danceg A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones togetherg a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracingg A time to get, and a time to lose: a time to keep, and a time to cast away, A time to rend, and a time to sewg a time to keep silence, and a time to speak, A time to love, and a time to hate: a time of war, and a time of peace. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8