Saint Louis High School - Spectre Yearbook (Lake Charles, LA)

Page 113 text:

ANDREW CARNEGIE was a grant rn the rarlroad and steel mdustrles He helreved that rt was the duty ot a rrch man to drslrrhute hrs wealth durrng hrs lrletrme To that end, he eslablrshed 2800 lrhrarres and many cultural halls throughout Arnerrca A lrtetlrne passlon lor nlachrnery led HENRY FORD to Detrort where. rn 1896. he completed hrs llrst motor ve hrcle The Ford Motor Company manufactured the lrrst Model T ur 1909 l'irs.. 7 , Servrng an unprecedented tour terms as Presrdent ol the Unrted States, FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT was a popular leader who made ertensrve use ol lrresrde radro chats to explarrr hrs plans and generate enthusrasrrr to push them through Congress The crrppler polromyelrtrs was conquered by DR. IONAS SILK ln 1953 atter more than Z5 years ot research Polro was reduced hy 962 rn less than len years SALK's re- search cuntrnues rn Calrlornra at the Salk lnslrtute ROBERT FROST's poetry was clear. understated, well metered and told the stones ol rural Amerrca He was a lour trme wrnner ol the Pulrtzer Prrze and has heen called Amerrcas poet laureate MARTIN LUTHER KING was a leader rn the cause ol crvll nghts He had been a pastor helore turmng to the cause ut segregatron. Hrs leadershrp earned hrm the Nobel Peace Prrze rn 1964 He was assassinated by lames Earl Ray rrr 1968 r l One ol the most elementary symbols ol the Amerrcan way ol hte was estahllshed when I. EDGAR HOOVER and hrs Federal Bureau ol lnvestrgatron G-men set out to clean up the country Hrs career spanned over 40 years A plarn, homely woman wrth tremendous appeal to the masses. who was always ln the lhrclr ot thrngs de- scrrbes ELEANUR ROOSEVELT and her Irletrme ot poll' lrclrrng hesrde her hushand durrng has lour terms r l Lreutenant Colonel IOHN GLENN started Amerrcas trav- els to outer space when he became the lrrst Amerlcan to orhlt the earth He had been an avlator ln World War ll and a test prlot rn peacetrme The motron-prcture lndustry was revolutronrzed rn Amen ca and DAVID WARR GRIFFITH hecame known as the Father ol the lrlm art and lung ol dlrectors' tor hrs part rn thrs revolutlon Hrs camera teohnrques were the proneerrng steps ol the rndustry IHURGUOD MARSHALL rs the trrst Negro to serve as a lustrce ol the Supreme Court Hrs law career was armed pnrnarrly at crvrl rrghls cases GERALD R. FORD, the lrrst Presrdenl to achreve the ot- frce wrthout an electron, In 1974, through a serres ol scandalous events, the Nrxon admmrstratron toppled and FORD reached the posrtron through approval hy Congress

Page 112 text:

THEY ADE THEIR M RK Men and women who helped shape America's history THOMAS PAINE, a bankrupt Quaker corsetrnalrer, some- trme teacher, preacher and grocer wrote the most onl- lrant pamphlet ot the Amencan Revolutronl Hrs words rn Common Sense rerllectedlongrngs and asprratronslthat have remarned part ol Amerrcan culture to thrs day Chrel lustrce IOHN MARSHALL estahlrstred lundamental prrncrples ol Amerrcan constrtutronal law He rs noted lor hrs precedental declaralron ot a Congressronal act as unconstrtutronal He served through trve admrnrslra' trons, from 18011835 ABRAHAM LINCOLN eprtomrzed the Amerrcan dream ol a humble young man ascendrng to the hrghesl otlrce ol the land He was superbly skrlled at analyzrng complex rs- sues and translatrng them unto meanrnglul words lor the oublrc He was devoted to the preservatron ol the Unron DANIEL WEBSTER chose law as a career and went on to become well-known rn the courts and In polltlcs He was twrce Secretary ot State wrth an eye always lo the Presl- dency whrch eluded hrrn Born a slave rn Maryland, FREDERICK DOUGLASS taught hrmsell to read and wrrte secretly and.at 211 escaped to lreedom, He was an ardent abolrtronrst eampargnrng successtully lor Negro surlrage and crvrl nglrts HARRIET BEECHER STOWE wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin rn an etlort to make the whole natron realrze the rnhumanr- ty ol slavery. Her book resulted rn one ol the most popu- lar and controversral plays on the Amerrcan stage, The Crvrl War was krndled by' lhls work r I J DOROTHEA DIX worked her entrre adult lrle lor relorm ol the exrstrng penal and mental rnstrtutrons rn the mud' 1800's The lrrst stale hosortal rn the natron al Trenton, New lersey was a drrecl result ol her ellorts The New Colossus, a sonnet composed by EMIAA LAZ' ARUS rn 1883 rs rrrsnrrbed on a bronze tablel at the base ol the Statue ol Lrberty She organrzed relrel lor lews and helped tugrtrves lrom the Czar's ghettos to establrsh homes rn Amenca l I The creator ol the Cherokee alphabet, SEQUOVAH, was an artrst, wrrter and srlversmrttr He used asrmple IBZI Englrslr prrmer to compose the characters The lamous redwood trees ol the Pacrlrc coast bear hrs name AMELIA IENKS BLOOMER. best known lor a mode ol dress she adopted durrng her camoargn lor equal rrghts lor women. Though rrorculed untrl she gave up the cos- tume, the term bloomer came to symbolrze womans bro lor rndrvrdual lreedom. - - HORACE GREELEVS adrrronrtron to Go West young man was a rallyrng cry ol the proneers ol Arnerrca He was founder and edrtor ol the New Vorlr Trrbune He was best known lor hrs phrlosophy ol socral relorrn and hrs unsuccesslul bud lorthe Presrdency rn 11172 IOSEPH PULITZER was the tnst rournalrst to reach a tru- ly massrve audlence Hrs New York World newspaper was the symbol ot yellow1ournalrsm wrth rts sensatronal- :sm armed at the common rrran.

Page 114 text:

1 1