Northfield High School - Shield Yearbook (Wabash, IN)

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President Nixon Goes To Washington President-elect and Mrs. Richard M. Nixon are greeted at the White House by President Johnson on December 12, 1968. While Nixon and Johnson were conferring on matters of state, Mrs. Johnson gave Mrs. Ni.xon a tour of the Executive Mansion. UPl TELEPHOTO Vice Resident Hubert Humphrey, Democratic Presidential candidate, and Mrs. Humphrey spent many months on campaign trail. UP! TELEPHOTO Mr. Richard Nixon and Mr. Spire Agnew greet supporters and well-wishers at Republican Convention after winning nominations for Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates. SUBMITTED BY: THOM WERTENBERGER Governor and Mrs. Edgar Whitcomb take time to pose during vigorous gubernatorial campaign. SUBMITTED BY THOM WERTENBERGER

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Table of Contents Student Life 10 Academics 26 Sports 44 Organizations 70 Personalities 98 Directory 140

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Brig. Gen. Frederick E. Davison, third Negro in the history of the U.S. to become General, bends over to hsten to one of his wounded men during a tour of the field somewhere northwest of Saigon. UPI TELEPHOTO Commander Lloyd Bucher and his crew on the Pueblo were released after eleven months in North Korean captivity. UPI TELEPHOTO Those Who Defend Our Country And Those Who Protest SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) Looking wan and tired, but radiating happiness through their tears, the men of the Pueblo re- turned to American soil Christmas Eve after eleven months in North Korean captivity. All but one of the 83 crew members of the U.S. InteDigence ship captured January 23, 1968, stepped from the two big jets that brought them from Seoul. The body of Fireman Duane D. Hodges was carried off a plane by an honor guard. He was fatally injured when the ship was seized. Bucher said that several men were wounded, some at point-blank range, but that Hodges knew he was dead when he was hit. The commander said Hodges told him it was a privilege to serve in the United States Navy. SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI)-Apollo 8 moonflight commander Frank Borman reported from lunar orbit that the moon surface 69 miles below him was a vast, lonely, forbidding . . . expanse of nothing. Most of the world ' s major astro- nomical observatories were on a list to receive liigh resolution prints from the Apollo 8 lunar photos, the best man has ever obtained from his nearest neighbor in space. The movies shot on the way to the moon, in lunar orbit and coming home-were the most dramatic space films since those shot of America ' s first spacewalker outside the Gemini 4 capsule in June of 1965. Vietnam war protestors burn draft files, which they seized from the U.S. selective service offices in small park in Milwaukee. UPI TELEPHOTO Yippie protestor being searched bv po- lice. UPI TELE- PHOTO ' f l ia SmS i