Stoneham High School - Wildlife Yearbook (Stoneham, MA)

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HOCK... DISBELIEF.. .5RIEF cfhc Boston (globe fiUamU K m 4y. Born liper’s Bullet Cuts Down President icqueline Cradles Dving Husband hnson Swc m In; McCormack No. 2 A Wife ' s Anguish ' V ■ ,r S In 1962, we were born, as John Glenn orbited the moon. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, we were taking our first steps and speaking our first words, blissfully ignorant of our parents’ shock and grief. We grew up as the Beatles hit their peak, too young to understand, but still loving “The Yellow Submarine. ” In 1968, we entered our first year of school, oblivious to the tragedies of the spring. As we were first intro- duced to the wider world of knowl- edge through Tom, Jane and Spot, Richard Nixon was elected to his first term of Presidency. In 1969, we all watched breathlessly as the first spacecraft landed on the moon. We heard vaguely about Woodstock, where hippies did what our parents said we had better not do or else, and about some- thing called Vietnam, where soldiers became POW’s and missing in action, or just plain dead. In the fourth grade, we begged our mothers to let us wear the mini-skirts that we scorned a year later. We were more interested in 1972 Olympics with Olga Korbut and Mark Spitz than in the reelection of President Nixon. In 1974, the impact of Watergate and the unprecedented resignation of the President of the U.S. paled against the prospect of entering the Junior High as seventh graders. The Energy Crisis and President Ford’s guidelines meant that we froze in school, beginning in the eighth grade. May I have your I can pi E.i