Sandia High School - Crest Yearbook (Albuquerque, NM)

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rif- A C May 1 Voting, cheerleader and SBC Speech Club Carnival The Curious Sovcge'f , Orchestra concert Drill team fryouts Spring choral concert Music Theory recital Bond concert Awards assambly Yearbook disrribufion Signing puriy Memoriallboyz School closes Junior-Senior Prom ,',. L-

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...u-v M--Q., holiday, sports, cards emphasize April Spring sports events, report cards and a four day Easter break touched off the activities that crowded April. Baseball games, tennis matches and track meets provided entertainment for sports fans throughout the month. A special all-school assembly in- troduced cheerleader finalists and student body council candidates to the students. The assembly was the culmina- tion of weeks of sign-ups, try-outs and campaigning in the form of poster-lined hallways. Journalists attended the state High School Press Assn. activities during Highlands Day on the Highlands campus in Las Vegas April ll-12. Sandians led for the eleventh consecutive year with TO awards in five writing fields for newspaper stories. Council representatives treated faculty members to a Brownie Breakfast April 'l5 in observance of Teacher Apprecia- tion Day. That same evening new members were installed in the Virgil l. Grissom Chapter of the National Honor Society. Sandia's and Highland High's new members of Quill 8. Scroll were installed as the two schools participated in a dual candlelighting ceremony. On Conglomeration, a musical production presented by the Honor Choir, included excerpts from seven popular musicals. The program was staged in the Theater. Five Sandians participated in the Northwestern Regional Science Fair at the University of New Mexico Basketball Arena. From the five, Bruce Ackerman was selected to go to the State Science Fair at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. A wide variety of motion pictures was represented at the 4lst annual Academy Awards presentation. Breaking tradition, two shared the award for Best Actress: Barbra Streisand for her part in Funny Girl and Katherine Hepburn for Lion in Winter. Cliff Robertson was named best actor for the leading role in Charly, and Oliver won several Oscars includ- ing Best Picture of the Year. While Easter vacation cooled student dissatisfaction, letters continued to pour in concerning the controversial Love Lust poem. University officials were apalled as funds were cut from UNM's budget for an investigating committee. Albuquerque's ninth public high school, scheduled to open in the fall of l97O, was officially named Eldorado. Unrest was evident around the nation with the Vietnam war and economic infla- tion ca using the most dissatisfaction. ln a referendum in France, Charles de Gaulle was rejected by the people and, consequently, resigned from office. Sandians saw award winning Char- ly, while songs like Dizzy and Gal- veston were among the top 10 tunes. Activities 27

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Varied activities crowd hectic month Seniors were counting final days of school, and underclassmen prepared for the next school year as the May cal- endar was crowded with end-of-the-year activities. Ballots were cast to elect the coming year's Student Body Council and class officers along with cheerleaders. Sandia's Albuquerque Youth Council members participated in AYC Day May 2. The traditional day enabled students to assume responsibilities of various city, county and school officials. Booths, people, music and gaiety filled the Girls Gym during the annual Speech Club Carnival May 3. Mentally disturbed characters were portrayed in the drama students' final production, The Curious Savage, which was presented May 8-'IO in the Theater. Spring concerts were presented by the music organizations and classes, in- cluding a music theory recital, band, orchestra and choral programs. Sandians enjoyed a special attraction when the United States Navy Band from Wash- ington, D.C., performed at an all-school assembly. Outstanding Sandians who received national, state or city recognition were honored during the annual Awards Assembly. Semester testing was scheduled May 26-28, and seniors began the harried, crowded race of Senior Week. Although the Senior Assembly pre- sented a note of nostalgia, the campus was the scene of excitement as the year- books were distributed May 29. The tra- ditional signing party was held that night in the Gym. Four Hills Country Club provided a relaxed atmosphere for the senior swim party, while soft formality floated through the air at the Junior-Senior Prom. The Prom, with the theme ln-A- Gadda-Da-Vida, or Garden of Love, was held May 30. City commissioners passed an ordi- nance prohibiting mobile food vendors from patronizing public school areas between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. The or- dinance was to be put into effect in the fall. Ten metropolitan mayors met with President Nixon to discuss the growing problems of urban conditions. Sirhan Sirhan, convicted assassin of Senator Robert Kennedy, was sentenced to death in the gas chamber at San Quentin. Riot-racked campuses continued to be in style as Cornell and Harvard Univer- sities were victim to student unrest, along with Queens College and Radcliffe. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas was pressured into resigning as the result of allegedly unethical dealings. Three astronauts shot skyward and orbited within nine miles of the moon's surface in preparation for the first moon landing scheduled for July. Conflicts in northern Ireland between Catholics and Protestants and the Arab- Isreali situation in the Middle East con- tinued to be serious problems. Sandians viewed movies such as The Shoes of the Fisherman and Star and danced to songs like ln the Ghetto in May. far, upper, left: Neal Kelley, Crest editor, '69, lugs a box of yearbooks into the publications office before distribution. upper, left: lrene Thompson delighted- ly hugs Jan Sowell upon hearing of their election as varsity cheerleaders. Michelle Barnesuand Melissa Miller wait to offer their congratulations. far, center, left: A member of the Navy Show Band, Washington, D.C., does his thing at a special school assembly. center, left: Doctors Dawn Addington and Chuck Crespy offer professional advice to Pam Roth and Bill Peavy, '69, at the Speech Club Carnival. lower, left: Members of the class of 1969 give the Pledge of Allegiance during the Senior As- sembly. left: Debbie King and Don Elder, '69, exchange adoring glances at the Junior-Senior Prom. Activities 29