Upper Perkiomen High School - Walum Olum Yearbook (Pennsburg, PA)

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WALUIVI OLUIVI HISTORY About 1000 A.D. a famous tribe of Indians known as the Leni Lenape invaded eastern Pennsylvania. These original people settled in our area and inscribed their history in a book made of birch bark plate. This book, called the Walum Olum, was the first primitive eastern Indian record which can properly be called a book. Since the Leni Lenape were prominent in our area and called their history the Walum Olum, we, the class of 1966, should like to record the history of our class in our Walum Olum. 1 l xx' it TABLE OF CONTENTS Theme - - - Dedication --------' Administration and Faculty - - - - - Senigrg ........... Underclassmen . - Sports ---.-. Activities - - . 8 l Page Page Page Page Page Page Page

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meeting on October 6 during his first public appearance after the coup, which seriously shook his one-man rule. 8 Soviet Winner-Russian author Mikhail Sholokhov was vacationing in the Ural region on October 18 when he heard he had been awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature. The December award ceremony was held in Stockholm. 9 Return to Desolation-Hundreds of families returned to the wreckage of their homes, destroyed by eruption of Taal volcano, south of Ma- nila, on September 28. Volcanic ash covered a six-mile-square area. The death toll was estimated at 500. 'l0P1ice cy' War-The number of casualties increased as the U.S. stepped up its military action in Vietnam. American advisors took part in many helicopter missions, carrying wounded soldiers, both Vietnamese and American, to copters on makeshift litters for evac- uation to Saigon. ll il Reason to Celebrate-Chancellor Ludwig Erhard of West Germany waved to a cheering crowd in Bonn after his Christian Democrats surged to victory in the September 19 parliamentary elections. Mayor Willy Brandtis Social Democrats suffered defeat in the voting. ' 12 Colonia! Rule Shaken-Rhodesian Premier Ian Smith broadcast a proclamation of sovereign independence for Rhodesia on November 11. The split from Britain was made in an attempt to insure a white minority rule of the African colony. It was the First such move against Britain since the American colonies broke away in 1776. Britain re- taliated swiftly and took the problem to the U.N. Security Council, which asked all nations to enforce an oil embargo against the Afri- can colony. ' 'I 2

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A 15 1 4 DEDICATION Defending freedom is never an easy task. But to do it in a far off land, against a sly and dangerous enemy is extremely difficult. The United States soldiers are fighting in Viet Nam so that the fighting will not be fought in the United States. His courage and devotion, even in the face of criticism at home and abroad, best exemplifies the American ideal. Victory will not come easily for them, but they will always have a special place in the hearts of every true American. lt is for this reason that we the class of '66 in recognition of their heroic struggle against tyranny dedicate our yearbook to the United States fighting men in Viet Nam.