Hayfield Secondary School - Harvester Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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The World We Lived in While at Hay field. . .

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Everyone strums to his or her own music; his or her own life. You can see it in daily life patterns. All students are but notes on the record, look¬ ing for a higher place in life; a higher rank on the chart rating. 16 introduction

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This special section is a salute to the class of ’74. These seniors are the first to go all the way through six years edu¬ cation at Hayfield. Here is a look at those “Golden Years.” “OUR WAR” was Vietnam, however, few of us are aware that the people of Vietnam had been at war for over 25 years. Vietnam became the subject of much painful soul searching throughout this nation. While the controversy boiled all over the world, men fought and died in the rice paddies, jungle thickets, and steep mountains. In Paris, far from the battlefield, representatives of the combatants sat through endless sessions seeking a peace agreement. Bombing was halted and then expanded; it even included Cambodia. Cease fires agreements were signed and broken. Attempts of peace seemed futile but at last Dr. Henry Kissinger, our representative to Paris Peace Talks, announced at the beginning of 1973 that peace was attained and our troops were withdrawn. Dr. Kissinger became Secretary of State and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. THE VOTING AGE was lowered to 18 when President Nixon signed a bill on June 22, 1970. On December 21, 1970, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that 18 year old Amer¬ icans have the right to vote in federal elections. AMTRACK a quasigovernmental corporation, inau¬ gurates a new passenger rail service linking about 300 cities. U.S. TROOPS were replaced by South Korean troops along the 151-mile armistice border with North Korea for the first time since the Korean War. The U.S. troops enter¬ ed the war in Korea during June of 1950. THE WORD “ECOLOGY” came into everyday usage as naturalists, and many other men of the various sciences, became successful in making humanity aware of the dread¬ ful course it was following towards its own extinction by pollution of the air and water about us: by promiscuous use of insecticides and other poisonous chemicals; and by the extravagant and destructive use of our natural resources. The year 1970 was tagged “Year of the Environment” and April 22 was designated as “Earth Day.” Laws began to be passed to protect our environment, not only from industrial abuse, but private abuse as well. Even the U.S. Wildlife reporters gave the nation shocking reports on the extinction of many species. An “animal graveyard” was featured during Earth Week at the Bronx Zoo. Each of the tombstones were marked to represent an animal that had become extinct. In 1974, 140 nations of the world, for the first time acted together and formed a United Nations Environment Pro¬ gram (UNEP) with a determined effort to stave off ecologi¬ cal disaster. It opened its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya with a staff of 300. FOUR STUDENTS WERE KILLED at Kent State University in Ohio on May 4, 1970, as National Guard men fired their rifles into a group of anti-war demonstrators. Violence flared at several other universities as students protested the U.S. military move into Cambodia. 18 the world we lived in while at hayfield.