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This web site is dedicated to the Class of 1972. We hope you enjoy your visit and come back often.  If you would like to donate information or old photos please email webmaster.  Also, please sign our guestbook below.  Thanks!

"1971-72 is a year we will never forget.  It was our year, while we were but tiny fish in a bowl, witnessing the fast-paced world swirling about us.

It was a time of happening in our country also.  Change was the theme word.  We realized our childhood days were waning.......

Mostly, though we sat and watched.....and enjoyed our lives as teenagers.  Worshipping our idols, following our teams, or just doing our thing........

But our bubble was soon to be burst.  We were faced with shock, loss and death..........

.........Though the bubble be broken, only momentarily, we must always progress, remember, but continue for all of life is great and glorious!"
                                   1972 Yearbook

 

 1972 MUSIC

          Top 10 Billboard:

           1.  The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Roberta Flack
           2.  Alone Again (Naturally), Gilbert O'Sullivan
           3.  American Pie, Don McLean
           4.  Without You, Nilsson
           5.  Candy Man, Sammy Davis Jr.
           6.   I Gotcha, Joe Tex
           7.   Lean On Me, Bill Withers
           8.   Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me, Mac Davis
           9.   Brand New Key, Melanie
          10. Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast, Wayne Newton

1972 News Events

  • Israeli athletes taken hostage/killed at Olympics
    The PLO group Black September in revenge for the 1970 defeat of Palestinian guerrillas, broke into the Olympic Village and killed two coaches and took nine hostages. It later ended in the death of the hostages and the commandos as they tried to leave the country.

  • HBO (Home Box Office) subscription cable TV launch

  • First commercially successful game (Pong) released
  • Nike running shoes hit the market

  • Last Apollo mission to the moon  

  • Bobby Fischer beats Soviet Spassky
    The 15 year old Chicago born chess prodigy openly took on the Soviets in an attempt to reverse the Soviet dominated chess masters.

  • The book, Joy of Sex, is released
    The title is a take on the popular, Joy of Cooking, cookbook

  • E-Mail invented
    In 1972 the first E-Mail program was invented by Ray Tomlinson of the BBN.

  • ERA passed in the Senate
    The ERA Amendment passed in the Senate.

  • The Wars Act
    This was passed because Nixon authorized the invasion of Cambodia, Loas and later Hanoi and Haiphong. It requires that the president account for action within 30 days and taking troops into foreign wars.

 

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