Sandia High School - Crest Yearbook (Albuquerque, NM)

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Skiers welcome snow, flock to slopes Intensified snow and winds hit the na- tion during the later part of December, isolating a few, causing misery to many and ioy and satisfaction to skiers. Senior girls took the Betty Crocker Search for the American Homemaker of Tomorrow Exam Dec. 2. Combined student bodies of Sandia, Boys Academy and St. Pius had the traditional College Night in the Sandia Gym, giving parents and students a chance to talk to representatives of dif- ferent colleges. Class pictures were returned Dec. 3-5, including some orders of colored pic- tures, a new option for seniors. Two sports opened their seasons, , losfoflftf il' Man moon, the sss - Apono nt. srts I ' 2. John F. Kennedy assasinated. 3. The Vietnam war. 4. The black revolution at home. 5. Khrushchev removes Soviet missiles from Cuba after nuclear showdown A with JohnkF,5Kennedy. ,x,V,.- f Q ,--,,, I I Student and activism 4, , and abroadlfliff-. 5' T ' 7. Richard M.7Nixon, defeated by'Ken- nedy in 1960, elected president in 1968 in an unprecedented comeback. 8. Bay of Pigs: U.S.-backed attempt to invade Cuba fails. 9. Lyndon B. .Johnson forced by Vgetnarn if .sss s S ww forego fekwnese. ,t.' I i - ,electiorivftafftljiijtytiite House. t Arab-israeiifianflict tworsems. 5 S Y ' Ctaken front 5 'V 2 College, Night 9 Orchestra Concert - 18 Choral Concert s A I2-19 Christmas Drive . Christmas: hoiidays: Schoot closes, right: Chip Collins watches while Randall Pompeo, Debbie Sackett and Charlie Hart load Christmas Drive donations into a car trunk for delivery to families. far, upper, right: During the Christmas season, Old Town's Plaza features a traditional display of luminarias. far, lower, right: Albu- querqueans welcome winter by taking to the slopes to ski. Cphotos page 43 by Dick Kentb 42 wrestling Dec. 3 against Highland and basketball against Rio Grande Dec. 5. Money was collected Dec. 9 for Gary Sevier, a Lovington football player who was paralyzed from the neck down as the result of a game iniury. The Student-Faculty Committee began a series of meetings about student de- mands on dress code changes, and by Dec. 'IO the revised code left the field open to girls wearing pants to school. Homerooms participated in the annual Christmas drive for the poor. This year students donated clothes, toys and food which were then taken to needy families. Eleven Texans on a return trip from Las Vegas, Nev., were killed when their plane crashed into an open field north of the city, in view of many residents. Record number of voters reiected the proposed new constitution 61,092 to 58,986 Dec. 10. Henry Bohnhoff, local Boy Scout, was rescued from the snow-swept Sandias after breaking his leg on a hike. December ushered in the first draft lottery since since World War II. The Defense Department announced that 50,000 more Gl's were expected to leave Vietnam by April 'l5. Vice-President Spiro Agnew and his wife boarded a plane at Andrew Air Force Base for a 37,000 mile tour of Asian and Pacific nations. Japanese voters sent a Pro-American liberal democratic party back to power for four more years. A Supreme Court ruling to desegre- gate schools without delay forced many Jackson, Miss., parents to decide whether to send their children to integrated schools, keep them at home or send them to private schools. Five gunboats, escorted by a small flotilla of Isreali vessels, slipped out of a French harbor despite an embargo on war goods to lsreal, leaving behind an embarrassed French government. Inflation continued, interest rates rose to unprecedented levels and the stock market receded as the month closed. The biggest highlight of the month was the Christmas vacation, enabling students to enioy movies like Cactus Flower and to listen to songs like Rain- drops Keep Falling. sam,

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New year brings advent of new decadep With the advent of the new decade, students returned to school to complete the first semester of studies and activi- ties. Amy Shaffer, American Field Service Americans Abroad student from Sandia, left for a South African home and a year of study in Paarl, South Africa, Jan. 12. Seventeen students, including four Sandians, from four Heights high schools were arrested in narcotics raids on charges of selling marijuana and LSD. Information leading to the arrests was supplied by Narks, undercover police in the schools. John Fannin was named Mr. Teenage America in an AFS assembly Jan. 16, winning the honor with his guitar playing and singing in competition with 12 other finalists. Five local bands, Gertrude's Blues, Bounty Hunters, Heart, Family and Rush were featured in a Rock Festival put on by the junior class Jan. 17. Seniors had their first real visions of graduation when they ordered announce- ments at the end of the month. Three days of semester tests and a one day vacation marked the end of the first semester, which closed Jan. 23. Introducing a new era in aviation, the Boeing 747 superjet made its first pas- senger flights from New York to London. The new craft, reportedly quieter, cleaner and safer than earlier jets, im- mediately presented the problem of mass luggage and local transit burdens to conventional airports. Despite objec- tions concerning the slow takeoff and faulty escape methods, the first flights occurred safely. Convening for the regular 30-day ses- sion, the State Legislature met in Santa Fe. Even before Governor David Cargo's opening address, the Senate introduced a state income tax cut bill. Major issues of the session were pollution control and Sunday liquor sales. Three Alamogordo children were hos- pitalized with severe mercury poisoning after eating pork from locally raised hogs. An intensive search was made for the carcasses of other infected hogs, and 150 hogs being fed the mercury-treated grain were quarantined. Joseph Yablonski, defeated candidate for United Mine Workers Union presi- dency, and his wife and daughter were 44 found murdered in their home Jan. 6. Three suspects were arrested later in the month. Yablonski's defeat in the UMW election was a subject of much union controversy. After 32 months of existence, the revo- lutionary government of Biafra crumbled Jan. 12 and surrendered to Nigeria. At the end of the conflict over two million had died and another million were ex- pected to die of starvation before ade- quate relief was available. H. Ross Perot, Texas millionaire, failed in his attempt to deliver Christmas pres- ents to American servicemen in North Vietnamese prisoner of war camps. A number of the prisoners' wives traveled to the Paris peace talks to get informa- tion about their husbands. Birth control pills were the subject of Senate debate during the month, with factions differing over whether the pilI's side effects outweigh its useful- ness. Also in Washington, President Nixon vetoed a Health, Education and Welfare appropriation bill in yet another effort to curb spiraling inflation. Four days of closed door inquests were held to clarify the details of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne in which Senator Ted ,Kennedy was involved. Triumphing over the Minnesota Vikings Purple Horde 23-7, the Kansas City Chiefs brought the Super Bowl Trophy l to the American Football League for the second straight year and last time, as the two professional leagues will merge next year. Movie-goers listened to Venus and Arizona on the car radio while driving to see Paint Your Wagon or The Reivers. .vkij , Q ,A l is s. l