Jacksonville High School - Crimson J Yearbook (Jacksonville, IL)

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Each year is always a little different from any other year, and this year at JHS has been no exception. The Crimsons have experienced many changes, “firsts , and special events which have made 1975-76 unique. We have acquired a new principal, several new teachers, different foreign exchange students, and a whole new class of sophomores. The 1976 class of seniors has made it to the top at last. We have reinstated the school play as an anual event at JHS and have experienced our first bomb scare. As we look back on this year, we will remember all of the new events and also the old traditions. Homecoming is always a little bit different because of the people who participate, but many events have been the same throughout the years. This year again we enjoyed the senior girls' slumber party,, bonfire, parade, and the formal dance. There are two other dances that Crimsons have looked forward to over the years. They are Christmas Dance and Prom. Seniors alone look forward to the love feast, baccalaureate, and graduation. These time-hallowed events, too, make up an important part of JHS life. For some students this was the best year ever, and for others it was a “bummer. When you look back on this year, you may remember the good times: when you made the Honor Roll, when you went to your first formal dance, or when you “messed around with your friends at the football and basketball games. Perhaps when you look on this year, you will think of the bad times: when you forgot to study for a test and got an “F”, when the person you liked just wouldn’t like you back, or when you fell down in the middle of the track during a race and finished last place. Whatever the case, the 1975-76 school year will never be forgotten. This yearbook will help you remember the joy and the heartbreak that the year brought to you. For what is a yearbook anyway but photographs and memories? 10

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“Yesterday is already a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.” From the Sanskrit

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you knew you were in the best class ever because you were from the class of 76 alot of the 76 Seniors fell off of the field house front hall was YOUR territory and nobody else’s class ranks came out and you decided to start studying harder to pull up your average you couldn’t decide where to go to college you passed around all your Senior pictures to your friends Mr. Bradshaw was your class of 76 advisor the 76 Senior girls had their overnight at the YMCA you didn’t care what was going on because you were a SENIOR!!! you looked forward to graduation yet you didn’t want it to come you got tired of all the cliques that the class of 76 had you ordered your graduation announcements and forgot to go back to class you thought it was going to be “super-cool” to be a Senior and you later found that it wasn’t all it was cracked up to be every time a special school event came and went it made you feel sad because you knew it would be your last you knew that your class was special, especially after the class of 76 had its very own bomb scare!!! they read your will at the Love Feast you realized with sadness on Graduation Day that never again would you tread the halls of JHS and see all of those familiar faces each day