Fontana High School - Fohi Yearbook (Fontana, CA)

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Qtedfaudfgtugw 1 ID As 1650 Fontana High School students were the pressures of gaining another year of education of the world focused on shattering events In 1959 60 P, back seat to nothing else in importance was the , strike felt so strongly Ih the Fontana area where over are employed in the wests largest steel producing The complete shut down ndled not only the Kaiser Steel but also smaller foundarles dependent upon it and the ex was felt in countless Industries during its four month layoff The limelight shone again on Fontana when the high choir so ably directed by Virgil Camp performed In Las Vegas at mingo Hotel for the Kiwanis regional convention in October. so overwhelming, few were surprised when Camp's contingent were fore the Kiwanians again-only this time in Miami, Florida, in .lune doing much to ehhance the reputation of Fohi. And while the attention of many Fontanans was drawn to these oc foremost in the world . . . I fx THIS PLANT IS UN STRIKE

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'w-l20Wf, 3089110201 .,0Md, News of 1959-60 was filled with stories of the discharge of Elvis Presley, self-styled hipster of rock-'n-roll rhythms, from the United States Army in mid-March. His first official proclama- tion delighted his teen-age audience when he said that he'd devote the rest of his life to the rock- 'n-roll melodies . . . And with baseball the national sport, the southern California area was aflame with Dodger and World Series talk. The Los Angeles entry in the maior ranks copped the world's championship in their second sea- son in the City of the Angels . . . Statehood came at last to Hawaii after countless attempts to pass Congressional vote tests. Together with Alaska, Hawaii brought the count now to 50 of the United States of America . . .Highlighting international relations, cultural exchanges were opened in New York and Moscow for Americans and Russians to see exhibits of art, industry, and scientific advancement . . .