Sparta High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Sparta, IL)

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24 I Hear It's Your Birthday It's My Birthday, Too America is two hundred years old. It's her birthday. It’s our birthday, too. The ripple of patriotism has become a tidal wave and Sparta High is riding atop that wave as it joins the dozens of bicentennial celebrations throughout the area. Every parade features young Ameri- cans singing a song of them- selves. Students march, sing, paint, write, extol their homeland. Every phase of daily life is a celebration that says I am proud to be an American. TOP: The Juniors were as proud as the men of 1776 as they brought forth for their class a first place float in 1975. MIDDLE LEFT: Crazy hats and crazy people all go together to make school a little bit more bearable. MID- DLE RIGHT: Kathy Wilson and Charlotte White show that stuffing a float is not always as bad as it seems. BOTTOM LEFT: Lifting their voices in patriotism. Natural Joy enter- tained during the formal dance at Homecom- ing. BOTTOM RIGHT: Making a plug for the Bulldogs, this fellow created by Diana Doiron and Kathy Salto greets all visitors to SHS. OPPOSITE PAGE: Rudy Eggemeyer dons the SPARTA MARCHING BULLDOG’S new uni- forms.