Trinity High School - Trojan Yearbook (Euless, TX)

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. .Vietnamese War. . .riots. . . the ygunggf genefgtign . . . . . . . . rebelling for what was going on I . I Demonstrations . . I and the older people blaming what . was happening on the younger people. . . Ag2111'1St the SyStC1T1 . . the world was in utter confusion. Thereu ' ' . Smoke Dope I I was a war in process somewhere across g . . the ocean. awar miles away. . .yet it was , , Hlpples , , , P1gS , , a war which killed our men . . . The chil- dren of society were turning to a rowdy sort ' ' Ower I ren ' og music cplled rock 'n roll and indlulging in I . Pgace on Earth . t e evi s o rugs. Trying to escape t e traumas . of withdrawal and quitting everything, including ' - - Ant1'War - life itself. The Presidential Election was taking place this year with student demonstrators disrupt- ing the Democratic National Convention which was taking place in Chicago that year. They kept repeating the famous words of the generation. h'The whole world is watching. Yes, the whole world watched, yet it survived. It was but a matter of time. Doesn't time do wonders? ...Speed.. ..Pot. The reports of invasions here and there were a common topic in that era. War was an obsession . . . and a rejection. .W The World C ouldn 'I Survive A nother Decade of That! I f W ' .Jim Mr. Jack Ingle, Junior Counselor the first year that THS opened. discusses with another faculty member the problems of a student growing up in the restless decade of the 60's. Students protested the war. the system and anything else they objected to. lt was a craze . . . it seems that every- body protested about everything. ard Milhous Nixon was elected as the country's 37th President. Generation - Gap

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Patsy Daunis Pam Martin, Glenda Johnson and Keller John- son were part of the original faculty at THS. Here they discuss BELOW Cheerleaders one of Trinity s first years display ribbons that they had won at competi Ah the Restless Days it May They Forever Be. . . lit I Ah yes we go back to the days when the only people who stayed still were the people who had passed away. You B rd had to wear eyeliner and long, straight hair if you were a y girl and have uncombed, shoulder-length hair if you Anlmals were a dude. This era of time evolved around the B 1 Vietnamese War and outright rebellious people, eat es mostly of the younger generation. People were sick Donovan of turning the news on to hear how many casual- ties were counted in Vietnam, how many people Monkees died of an overdose the past week and how lit- St tle the American society approved of the younger generation. lt was a battle against each other . . . We had to face reality and it was so difficult to do so too many hid behind the false illusions of the drug scene. The time has passed but its mark will forever linger.

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TOP LEFT: Martha O'Brien. Homecom- ing Queen. 1977. TOP RIGHT: Trinity's beautiful library, ABOVE LEFT: Dee Dee Darrow C721 and Mike Arth 1715. ABOVE RIGHT: Spirit Club at Home- coming parade. LOWER RIGHT: School life in l97l. I2 X TRIUNE 2' at ,is A' , R IS :gg SWR' Bill Q M2l' :rife -at The Dream The dreams of youth so precious they be Hold tightly so not to let them slip away fade away Bring them back Sell them child to me l - S Barnes