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What a great weekend we had!  Over 110 students, teachers and guests enjoyed a lovely pool-side event Friday night.  There were lots of hugs, squeals, and laughter.  Several had never been to a reunion, some had only come once.  Everyone had so much fun! We were to have ended this event at 10:30, but people were having so much fun, and we were a very well behaved group, we kept the staff busy until 1:30 am! 

On Saturday over 50 of us had a great tour of the school, learned about how Sheldon operates now, and saw the changes.  Scott Smithrud got to live out his fantasy of going into the Girl’s Locker Room!  Due to South Eugene burying the Blarney Stone one time, the stone has been moved closer to the cafeteria.  The school looks great, and we all had fun.
 
Next nearly 70 of us went to The Nine’s on Riverridge Golf Course for a Barbeque ~ with salads, steak, chicken, burgers, hot dogs and of cold beverages.  What a great time that was! 
 
We had people come from Costa Rica, Maine, New Hampshire, North and South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and many points along the west coast.  It was a great weekend, and photos will be posted soon.  Some photos are already showing up on our Facebook Page, SheldonSeventy.  We hope you will “Save the Date” for the 1st weekend of August, 2015. 

Our Class Motto: “Don’t live for tomorrow, live for today”

Our Class Flower: Carnation

Our class colors: Lime Green, Yellow and white

Our class song: “Never Walk Alone”

The Year Was 1970...

Do you remember these things?

The voting age was reduced from 21 to 18, making it the same as the draft age.

Apollo 13 was launched from Cape Kennedy ~ and was a near disaster.

Nixon banned cigarette advertising on television and radio 

The Kent State riots and shootings happened May 4, a month before we graduated.

The price of gold fell below $35 per ounce.

Top musical hits:

            Make It With You  (Bread)

            Fire and Rain (James Taylor)

            Bridge over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkle)

            I’ll Be There (Jackson 5)

            Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on my Head (BJ Thomas)

            Ain’t no Mountain High Enough (Diana Ross)

            I think I Love You (Partidge Family)

The first New York City Marathon was held.

Auto manufacturers suffered a set back, and only the lowest priced compacts sold well.  Some hot cars were:

            Datsun 1200  $1736

            VW Beetle  $1780

            Gremlin    $1899

            Ford Pinto  $1919 

Fashion saw animal and bold prints, chokers, ruffles shirts for me, and pants became the norm for women.  Almost everything was Tie-dyed (and it is again!)

World Population June 1970  ~3,937,063,198

World Population April 2010 ~ 6,813,600,000

(we had an estimate in 2000 of 8,299,037,813)

Top Films of 1970:

Airport;  M*A*S*H; Patton; Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice; Love Story; Five Easy Pieces.  The average cost of a movie ticket was $1.55.

Famous people who died that year:

Janis Joplin; Jimi Hendrix; Gypsy Rose Lee; Sonny Liston; Charles deGaulle, Bertrand Russell.

Famous people who were born in 1970:

Alonzo Morning (Basketball); River Phoenix; Andre’ Agassi; Kirk Cameron; Chris O’Donnell; Claudia Schiffler; David Gregory; Gabriella Sabertini; Kelli Ripa and her hubby Mark Consuelos; Lara Flynn Boyle; Matt Damon; Martha Plimpton; Mike Weir (golfer); Naomi Campbell; Niecy Nash (Dancing with the Stars); Master’s Champion Phil Mickelson; Ricky Schroeder; Tina Fey; Tonya Harding; Uma Therman.

Almost 40% of American households now had color TV;  Popular shows were: Marcus Welby MD; The Flip Wilson Show; Here’s Lucy; Hawaii 5-0; Mod Squad and Laugh In.