Fun Facts and Highlights
  • Maurice Martin was the student body president.
  • The home economics building was built.
  • Girls were allowed to letter in track, and the first two were Julee Simmons and Debra Peterson.  Girls track actually started in the 1973 - 1974 school year because of the law that was passed known as Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972.
  • Album of the Year: Paul Simon, Still Crazy After All These Years.
  • Song of the Year: Captain and Tennille, Love Will Keep Us Together.
  • Saturday Nigh Live premiered on NBC with George Carlin as host.
  • Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft.
  • The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975.
  • We were wearing hip-huggers, bellbottoms, polyester leisure suits.
  • Mood Rings, Pet Rocks, & Rubik’s Cubes were top sellers.
  • Music technology: 8-Tracks then cassette.
  • Home videotape systems (VCRs) are developed in Japan by Sony (Betamax).
  • The population of US was 215,973,199.
  • A quart of milk cost $.46; a loaf of bread cost $.33.
  • A gallon of gas cost $0.57.