Mesquite High School - Mesquite O Yearbook (Mesquite, TX)

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- SIGNING THE DECLAKATIUN OF lNDEl'ENDENCl'Z. A Bicentennial Minute 200 years ago life wasn't so easy in America. There were no push-button telephones, pick-up trucks, color televisions, or elevators. The work was done by hand, not by machine, and calculating was left to the brain, not the computer. Even without these technological triumphs, the colonists of 1776 have not been forgotten. They had the courage to break their bonds and declare their independence, and we respect that courage today. In this Bicentennial issue, the Mesquite-O looks back 200 years to the first colonies of the United States. Colonial life of 1776 is compared to Mesquite High School student life of l976. As you will see, we've come a long way, America! My wcmewr ob -Hu W-uifww-U Nw ,psmupxcv ' .gms gvvhoeu win-44, i, .,,6,QC,t,t,:,e...+sQ.a. be -Ffh uw ww' event ' S9-100-Q-OL . mxfwir V' A 020199 'bm QAM, t' CMJ- V QJLSL x,2ff,qjt.3lJn.QJuc M D eq-weve, 5 5, FN' tyccud.

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We must change our habits, our prejudices. our palates, our taste in dress, furniture, equipage, architecture, etc., but we can live and be happyf' John Adams

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