Lafayette High School - Marquis Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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LAME DUCK JIMMY X Q lxsjgs ,gym . 332 ,i8f'l if J. ,t .f qw V J 'wx' 'i .v53,.. - 4 fkwfgf . 5 fi? Yi 7,58 X -sq Maybe Americans were too burned out on the Iranian Crisis, the Cuban refugee trouble or just the entire situation of the Carter Administrationg but whatever it was President Carter would not have a chance to try again to prove himself in 1980. Although Jimmy Carter was defeated by Ronald Reagan in a landslide, the Lafay- ette students and faculty chose him as a winning candidate. On Monday, November 3rd, the first hour government class held a mock presi- dential election in which all three major contenders for president, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and John Anderson were on theballot. Out of 1,236 votes cast, Jimmy Carter won by 109 votes over Ronald Reagan, John Anderson came in 3rd and the WKQQ Bird beat Ed Clark. Students here at Lafayette were involved in the 1980 election through government classes. Many of them campaigned for the different candidates. Laura Mayes was an ABC correspond- ent and phoned in 3 different precincts to the ABC newscenter. Kim Couch went to the Civic Center and protested against 16 f Election X av swf, SCHOOL BO!-5 Reagan along with other Anderson sup- porters. All of the government students decorated Mr. Kayes' class for the various candidates and really became excited about the 1980 election. Mr. Kayes, who is the government teacher at Lafayette, enjoys seeing the stu- dents get involved with government. He teaches this class because he likes to see students get involved and maybe one day have a career in the field of government. Mr. Kayes feels that government should be required for credits instead of history because government is happening now and history is all in the past. Many people, when asked about the 1980 election, felt like the race would be very close. Who would have thought the electoral count would have been Ronald Reagan's 489 electoral votes to Jimmy Carter's 49 electoral votes? It is a great privilege that Americans have the right to choose the Presidential caidate they like. This year in the 1980 election the Ameri- cans felt that the time was now and cast their vote for Ronald Reagan, the winning candidate of the 1980 Presidential election. ' J 359 While helping his mother Sean Tipton places a campaign poster in his front yard. The government class symbolizes how Jimmy Carter felt the day after the election. 4 1 5 1 5 4 'J Y 0

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,,-nf T Knowing she's helping out the L.H.S. puts ti big smile on this rockcr's lace. Mark Bolin visits some rockers to see hon everything is coming along. The masked Zorro goes to eltiss in his costume on Halloween dress-up day. Student Couneilf l

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