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

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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

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