Garrett High School - Aeolian Yearbook (Garrett, IN)

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1 111 lop left; 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, former Governor of Georgia, Carter won the November election by defeating Gerald R. Ford. top right: Gary Gilmore, convicted murderer from Utah, bottom left: Tom Wagner and Doug Overy compare coffee prices at a local grocery store. What events that occurred this year have changed not only the nation, but also our lives at Garrett High School? The presidential election of 1976 proved to be a very close race between President Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter, Governor of Georgia. Carter, who won the Democratic nomination in July, later defeated Ford in the November election. In April, Carter ' s Energy Proposal expressed his plans to raise fuel prices and develop a Department of Energy. He also said that a sales tax on gasoline would be enforced if the U. S. exceeded the quota he had previously stated. There was a swine flu scare which resulted in a national program of immunization. Despite the vaccinations, there was no outbreak of swine flu. Legionnaires’ disease, an odd, pneumonia-like illness caused by a bacterium, killed 29 people at a convention in Philadelphia. Consumers continued to buy coffee, even when the prices rose to over $5.00 a pound. A plane crash in the Canary Islands claimed more lives than any other accident in history. Gary Gilmore, a 36-year old murderer, was executed by a firing squad at the Utah State Prison on January 17. Gilmore was the first person to suffer the death penalty in the U. S. since 1967. National Events 9

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“Rocky” Best Picture; Carter 39th President Motion pictures and television specials offered the American public excellent presentations on numerous topics: All the President’s Men, the story of Woodward and Bernstein ' s exposure of the Watergate scandals; King Kong, the $25 million remake of the 1933 classic; A Star is Born, the remake of a remake starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson in the rock-musical tear-jerker; Network the story of the television industry ' s struggle for top ratings; Rocky, the story of an unknown boxer who gets a once-in-a-million chance to fight the champ. On television, millions of homes tuned in for the T. V. premiere of Gone With the Wind. Television viewers were offered a rare piece of entertainment with the eight consecutive night showing of Roots. Roots, by Alex Haley, traced his family tree to Africa where his ancestor, Kunta Kinte, was captured and put into slavery. The shows made television history when they received the highest ratings for any show ever on T. V. In May, former President Richard Nixon made his first public appearance since his resignation in a series of interviews conducted by David Frost. top left: The World Premiere of A Star is Born. top right; A scene from Roots, the story of Negroes being put into slavery, bottom left: King Kong battles helicopters atop the World Trade Center, bottom right; Sylvester Stallone in Rocky. 8 National Events

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Worst winter ever recorded in this century j Ik The students of Garrett High School got a little relief from the tensions of school due to the severe winter weather in January and February. In all, the students received a total of ten days off. The winter of ’77 had a total snowfall of over 26 inches. The record lows were 20-60 degrees below zero. During the storm, students assisted the police in getting food to those people who could not get to the store. Due to popular parent concern about their children missing so many school days, the school decided to make up for lost time by eliminating activity period, field trips, and convocations. While we were busy shoveling walks, the other side of the United States was trying to get enough water and selling it from vending machines. The West was having their problems too. top left--THROWING SNOWBALLS became a contest as Kevin Thomas and Randy Frost see who can throw the farthest, top right--DRIVlNG OUT OF THIS DRIFT would be quite a problem for Raymond Perry and his car. above--A STUDENT WILL STOP at nothing to get to school. 10 Weather