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Remember When........we had all that energy?

                Class Officers:
President:                      Lewis Moyse
Vice-President:              Evalyn Bedell
Sec.-Treasurer             Sandra Miller
Student Council Rep.     Joe Ed Ketner

School Publications:
The Cub (Yearbook)
The Campus Cub (Newspaper)
The Business Staff

  Service Organizations
Student Council
National Honor Society
Quill and Scroll
F. B. L. A.
Y-Teens
FHA
Key Club
HI-Y

    Activities
Athletic Sponsors
Athletic Managers
Majorettes
Cheerleaders
Band
Chorus
Cubettes
Pep Squad
Le Cercle Francais     

Other Activities - '64-'65
Sadie Hawkins - Nov. 7
Career Day
Senior Scholastics
Homecoming
Junior-Senior Prom - Feb. 6
Football Banquet - Feb. 8
Senior Trip to Washington, DC - March 7-11
State Rally - April 9-10
Senior Play - "The Mouse That Roared" - May 4-5
May Dance - May 8
Commencement - May 28, 1965

Sports
Football
Basketball
Baseball
Track
Golf
Tennis
G. A. L.
U-Club

Remember 1965?

President:  Lyndon B. Johnson
Vice President: Hubert Humphrey          
 
**This information is from the Class Reunion Website.
      
Click on the picture above to see more!

        Music - Top 10
1.  The Name Game - Shirley Ellis
2.  A Lover's Concerto - The Toys
3.  This Diamond Ring - Gary Lewis
     &  The Playboys
4.  Help Me, Rhonda - the Beach Boys
5.  You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin - The
     Righteous Brothers
6.  Wooly Bully - Sam The Sham &
     The Pharaohs
7.  1-2-3 - Len Barry
8.  Treat Her Right - Roy Head & The
      Traits
9.  I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher
10. Eve Of Destruction - Barry McGuire

San Francisco Group, "The Grateful Dead" make their first appearance.

        Grammy Awards
Album of the Year - September of
   My Years, Frank Sinatra
Best New Artist - Tom Jones
Best Pop Duo or Group - "Flowers
  on the Wall," Statler Brothers
Best Pop Female Vocal - "My Name
   is Barbra", Barbra Streisand
Best Pop Male Vocal - "It Was a
   Very Good Year," Frank Sinatra
Record of the Year - "A Taste of
   Honey," Herb Alpert and the Tijuana
   Brass
Song of the Year - "The Shadow of Your
   Smile," (Theme from The Sandpiper)
            Top Albums
Beatles '65 - Beatles
Goldfinger - Soundtrack
Mary Poppins - Soundtrack
Out of our Heads - Rolling Stones
Roustabout - Elvis Presley
          

            Top Movies
 (Click on website for more of the list)
The Sound of Music
Doctor Zhivago
Thunderball
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Sons of Katie Elder
A Thousand Clowns
Cat Ballou
Darling
The Beatles - Help!

         Academy Awards
(Click on website for more of the list)
Best Actor - Lee Marvin: Cat Ballou
Best Actress - Julie Christie: Darling
Best Picture: The Sound of Music

       Top 10 TV Favorites
      (Click on website for top 20)
1.  Bonanza
2.  Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
3.  The Lucy Show
4.  The Red Skelton Hour
5.  Batman (II)
6.  The Andy Griffith Show
7.  Bewitched
8.  The Beverly Hillbillies
9.  Hogan's Heroes
10. Batman (I)

The Wild, Wild West and Get Smart are
  hit new TV shows

            Emmy Awards
Best Drama - The Fugitive
Best Actress - Barbara Stanwyck, The
   Big Valley
Best Comedy - The Dick Van Dyke Show
Best Actor - Dick Van Dyke, The Dick
   Van Dyke Show
Best Actress - Mary Tyler Moore, The
   Dick Van Dyke Show
Best Variety - The Andy Williams Show

                Sports
(Click on website for more of the list)

NFL:  Green Bay 23 -
       Cleveland 12
Pro MVP: Jim Brown/
   Cleveland, Pete Retzlaff/
   Philadelphia
College Football - Alabama
Cotton Bowl:  LSU 14 -
               Arkansas 7

            Miscellaneous
  (Click on website for more of the list)
* Silicon chips are introduced
* New words: "Flower Power," "kook,"  
    "discotheque," "dude," "groupie,"
    "no way" 
* Astrodome is the first domed
    stadium  
* Diet Pepsi, Cranapple Juice, Apple
   Jacks make their first appearance 
* 90% of silver is removed from coins,
   only a "clad" cover is silver
* 105 Cadets at the Air Force Academy
   resign for cheating.
   

          In The News
  (Click on website for more of the list)
* Malcolm X Assassinated in Harlem
* Watts Ghetto Riots - 14,000
   National Guardsmen called in
* King leads Alabama freedom walk
* 25,000 March on Washington to protest
  war
* Draft cards are burned, offenders
   arrested by the FBI
* Sir Winston Churchill dies
* Nat "King" Cole dies
* Stolen Gems Found; "Murph the Surf"
  held
* UFO's make headlines
* LBJ sends 50,000 more troops to
  Vietnam
* "The Vietcong are going to collapse
   within weeks," National Security
   Advisor
* France leaves NATO
* Frank Borman & James Lovell make 206
  orbits in Gemini VII
                  Books
(In case anyone read a book not on the required reading list!)  (Click on website for more of the list)
          Fiction Best Sellers
The Source - James A. Michener
Up the down Staircase - Bel Kaufman
The Green Berets - Robin Moore
The Man with the Golden Gun - Ian Fleming
Hotel - Arthur Hailey
          Nonfiction Best Sellers
A Gift of Prophecy - Ruth Montgomery
Games People Play - Eric Berne, M.D.
Word Aflame - Billy Graham
Happiness Is A Dry Martini - Johnny Carson
The Making of the President, 1964 - Theodore White
        Other links from search engines:
* Ever wonder which celebrities/stars are
    dead or alive? Click here!
* The Groovy 1960's
* Fashion History Between 1960 - 1980

* History of the Twentieth Century (has
   several broken links, but interesting)
* A Twentieth Century Review

* This Day in History
* Library of Congress -American Memory
                      Hmmm...As things change, the more they become the same!!

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