Iver C Ranum High School - Raider Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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In 1973 we awaited the recess bell to ring. Tetherball and Four Square Tournaments were being held and seemed more important than spelling tests and vocabulary. The '73 world, national wise, was tippsy turvey. Secretariat won the triple crown. He was the first horse to accomplish this in a quarter of a century. Chile's President, Salvador Allende, was assassinated. Former President Lyndon B. johnson I64I died. US involvement in the Vietnamese war was ended by a treaty signed in Paris, war broke out in the middle east and brought concern to the American people. Arabs began oil embargos which started the gas shortage. Vice President, Spiro Agnew, resigned after pleading not guilty to a charge of income tax evasion. Gerald Ford took over his position. The Supreme Court legalized abortion. The White House Tapes were brought out. The Broncos recorded their first winning season and went onto the playoffs as Division Winners. '73 took its toll on many famous people. Lon Chaney Ir. f67J, jim Croce 1301, Betty Grable 1571, 1.R.R. Talkien f81J, and Walt Kelly 4603. All in the Family still remained a favorite of t.v. watchers. The Oscars were awarded to: jack Lemmon for Best Actor in his performance in I t. Save the.Tiger. , Glenda jackson for Best Actressin A Touch of Class , and Best Picture went to The Sting . The Exorcist premiered stunning many audiences. Another big movie was American Graffitti . The first Beatles' best-of-albums released two double LP sets en best albums for the year were: jackson Browne's For Everyman , Paul SimNon's There Goes Rhymin' Simon , Art Garfunkel's Angle Clare , Elton Iohn's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road , and Neil Diamonds jonathan Livingston Seagull . Ranum led an exciting year in '73, Homecoming Royalty was Patty Roth and Fred Roberts. Miss Raider was Patty Craft and Mr. Raider was Gordon Nishimoto. Miss Middleton became Mrs. Ray. Football had an undefeated season which ended Northglenns regime by winning a State playoff game. The team was coached by Loren Blaser. Steve Blair earned the title of All Skyline League and All Metro player award. The Baseball team was Skyline League champs again. The Thousand Mile club consisted of Chuck McMillan, jim Beaver and Steve Nelson. These three earned this award by being in track and CC for three years and by running 1000 miles during that time. The ROTC held their second annual Military Ball at the Westminster Elks. Gymnastics went to State along with the Wrestling team. Home Economics was opened to the guys. P.E. wasn't a required class. A kiln was built for Ceramics. Mr. Bassett came back to RHS. The Yearbook was dedicated to the Alumni of Ranum 110 years of servicel. Alumni: Dick Roush, Ellamae Rutherford, Mary Sexton, Frances Morris, Lee Lindecrantz, Fred larigese, Wayne Humphrey, Loren Blaser, Margaret wfbllilw,-LW1 YQ CK I 7' YXOLUN. Idwre oe Q, cet Q mul nig t as it outside Brewer and Mary jo Brooks. thinking to mysef what iI,.w0uld be like to be a frog ' ZJLD ' I looked up into the sky 'R U-A A - 0 and I noticed that someone had been up there clipping fingernails 0 yyggqg wg UU they had left one up there by mistake QT, M or maybe not by mistake., L . . ' 7 1 I It looked strange to me, that single fingernail in the sky. But then I thought it seemed even stranger that men would want to spend billions of dollars building rocket machines with which to fly to that single fingernail in the sky ' They could have saved their billions of dollars and come and seen me I have ten I would have given them readily. By: Dave Griffin --440' X ,aa X

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,...,..., S., ..., . .. s , , .. W, :V ..w.,,Lf W 5 VV f .1 7 I, ' sf fa In 1972, young and restless, we scarcely knew about the outside world. The little information that we knew came from overhearing discussions between our parents. Unconcerned, we troubled ourselves with meaningless projects which seemed most pressing. We had a very active year in the Olympics. West Germany released 5000 doves of peace opening day at the Munich Olympics. The games ended in a tragedy when Palestinian terrorists broke into the Israeli teams quarters. At dawn they killed two athletes and threatened to take the lives of nine more if 200 Arabs weren't released from Israeli prisons. lThe lives of the nine and of the terrorists were taken.l This began a decade of murders, kidnappings, hijackings and bombings. The President of the US Olympic -Meommittee, Avery Brundage, said We cannot allow a handful of terrorists to destroy the nucleus of international cooperation and good will . . . The games must go on. They did continue, bringing out some very outstanding athletes. Olga Korburt, age 17, enchanted t.v. viewers after she performed magnificently to earn two gold medals in gymnastics. Mark Spitz launched seven world swimming records which granted him seven gold medals - adding a spree of points for the US. Denver voters became the first ever to reject hosting the 76' Winter Olympics in their city. At Democratic Headquarters, james W. McCord jr. and four others were caught ransacking the Watergate office building. This event uncovered one of the world's biggest scandals. The Washington National Zoo received two giant pandas lHsing-Hsing and Ling-Lingl as gifts from China after Nixon opened relations with them. These relations with China aided Nixon inrbeing re-elected for a second term. Harry S. Truman C881 diedgin Kansas City. f'All in the Family rated top on Nielson's charts. The Oscars were awarded to Liza Minnelli for Best Actress in her performance in Cabaret and Marlon Brando refusedyto accept his award for Best Actor over a dispute of rights for the Indians at Wounded Knee. He earned this award for his performance in The Godfather . This movie also captured Best Picture. Best Best albums for the year were: Paul Simon's Paul Simon , Dan FogeIberg's Home Free and The Moody Blues Seventh Sciournn. . .. .,...,,..., W., ,..,, . . .,,. ,. . ., .. ,A , . . . . . .. Back at RHS the year was a surprising one. Golf took the Skyline Championship with a record of 'I9-1 and placed third in State. Baseball also did well that year for they had players on the All Conference team consisting of: Rick Sabell, Bob Blaser, Steve Meyers, Pat Kennedy, Bob Russell and Gordon Nishimoto. They also participated in the All State Tournament. The boys were: Rick Sabell, john Monaco, Steve Meyer and Gordon Nishimoto. To finish off this record of events was the All State Game in which Pat Kennedy, Steve MeyerNandgRick Sabell participated. The team was coached by Coach jenkins. The Wrestling Team also went to State that year. The Yearbook was dedicated to Mr. Rhoda. Ranum sold for the first year, RHS tee-shirts. Faculty Follies was a smash that year along with the smash Mr. Rhoda made when he wrecked the Auto Mechanics car into the wall. After a numerous amount of false fire drills Ranum actually had a fire in the east wing. A new addition to the clubs and scholastics was the.ROTC. To top the year off, two of Ranum's students expressed themselves by streaking down the halls. lin case you're wondering who did it, it was Dave Bensen and Steve Iohnson.I Those childhood corners of fears and frustration, Could tell of fantasy tales and crayon drawings of purple blues, He peeled paint in stiff wittled strips picked at from boredom. Marking of shoes with heel poundings or scrapings. Those memories of childhood corners lie open to examination, or termination, A What ever the case may be. By: Lynn Betker nf 'f Sai- I .FII ' 'iit I

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Jima ' ee, 1.974 In 1974 we were near or ending our time in elemen,taLy. We vu-ie mam Q,f.r.h.e unconcerned. Our biggest worry seemed to be who was going steady with who or how experienced we could get in trying new things. We looked forward to growing up and junior high was the next step. Watergate. Richard Nixon was the first president to resign. Ford gave him a Presidential pardon. Hank Aaron ' ' ' ' . ried'to jump the Snake River with his motorcycle but failed. Gold sales became legal in U.S. for the first time since 1933. Streaking became a big fad and could be s ' . All in the Family began its season and was a,sm,ash. The ' . actress went to Ellen Burstyn in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and best actor to Art Carney in Harry and Tonto . The theatrical world lost many favorites such as Bud Abbot 1781, lack Benny l80D,-Duke Ellington C75'JT'loe Flynn l7l'9'fEEl'Sullivan C731 and'Agnes Moorehead i68J. ' ' ' as the lite lim Croce, who peaked with albums like 'His Greatest Hits and Croce Love Songs . jackson Brown was going strong with his album Late for the Sky and Fleetwood,,Ma,cQs ' . 74 was a year of changes at Ranum High. Homecomi ' ' ' Kueal. Mr. Haller gave up his position of Dean of boys to Mr. Schumaeher, a new and ambitious man. Former principal Mr. Fred jargigese became principal of Westy, placing Mr. Rhoda in command. He was assisted bv Mr. Logsdon and'K7lr. Bassett with Mr. Moderhak as Activities Director. Ranum held their first speech meet, coached by Bernie Ellsworth. Loren Blaser, Head Football Coach for thirteen years, resigned his position to M-r. ' . e student'from japan - Kenji Flirano. Ranum athletes were outstanding in 74. The top swimmers were: Dave Saunders, Frank Vigil, Doug Davis, and Neil Martinez. The Davis being the only Skyline League wrestler to win over a japanese All Star Wrestler that season in the 119 lb. division. Ciold placed seco ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' , ' , first in the Skyline League meet, first in the Skyline League relays, first in the Districts and second in State. Seventeen girls participated in State that year. Also, Baseball took State with a 17-3 season and was rated second out of't'he top thirteen teams in the Four - Corners States iColo., Ariz., Utah, and New Mexicoi. Coach jenkins received the award of Coach of the Year of Colo. To top things off, the Raider football team beat