Class & Year Facts

Class Motto: 
Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and accomplishes the impossible.

Class Colors:  Lavender and White

Class Flower:  Orchid

School Fight Song:  Sung to the Washington and Lee Swing    (click on title to hear song)

OH WHEN THE MIGHTY BULLDOGS FALL IN LINE.

WE’RE GONNA WIN AGAIN ANOTHER TIME.

WE ARE FOR MOCO HIGH AND HER BULLDOGS TOO!

AND FOR HER COLORS OF PURE WHITE AND BRIGHTEST BLUE.

WE’RE FULL OF SPIRIT IF WE STAND OR FALL.

WE’RE GONNA FIGHT TO WIN AND CONQUER ALL.

WE’RE GONNA WIN THIS GAME AND MANY MORE.

WHAT’S THE SCORE?

THAT’S OUR TEAM!

B-U-L-L-D-O-G-S, BULLDOGS, GREAT!

Class officers:
President - Larry Henderson
Vice President - Kelvin Stehle
Secretary - Ann Hladky
Treasurer - Larry Rutherford

Homecoming:
Date:  October 2, 1964
Queen - Margaret Norman
King - David Dean
Senior Escorts:  Carol Crozier & Larry Henderson
Theme:  TV shows
DECA Club won 1st place for floats
Score of game:  Craig 6, Meeker 7

Junior / Senior Prom
Date:  May 1, 1965  (Senior year)
Theme:  Sayonara
Queen:  Carla Cook    King:  Gary Dunlap
Senior Attendants:  Alice Estey, Deems Utzinger, Margaret Norman, David Dean, Dan Carson, Linda Bilsing, Linda Rutherford & Larry Henderson

 

Date:  May 2, 1964  (Junior year)
Theme:  Misty Depths
Queen:  Linda Rutherford  King:  Steve Shepherd
Junior Attendants:  Larry Hayes, David Fisher, Danny Carson, Charles Lieber, Maria Herrera, Margaret Norman, Carolyn McEvoy & Linda Bilsing

Football Season:
Won 6, lost 2

Basketball Season:
Won 6, lost 13
Finished second in conference tournament

Cross-country:
Finished second at State

NFL Title:  Green Bay Packers 23, Cleveland Browns 12

NBA Title:  Boston Celetics over the Los Angeles Lakers (4-1)

Boxing:  Cassius Clay KO's Sonny Liston in first round

Best Movie:  The Sound of Music

Best Actor:  Lee Marvin - Cat Ballou

Best Actress:  Julie Christie - Darling

President:  Lyndon Johnson

Vice President:  Hubert Humphrey

Cost of Living:
    Gallon of milk   $1.05
    Loaf of bread     .21
    Gallon of gas       .24
    New auto        2,350
    New house      21,500
    Postage stamp      .05
    Avg. Income     5,942

Life expectancy:   70.2 years

Top 10 Hits
1.  Satisfaction
2.  I can't help myself
3.  Wooly Bully
4.  My Girl
5.  You've lost that lovin' feelin
6.  Downtown
7.  Help Me Rhonda
8.  Can't you hear my heartbeat
9.  Crying in the chapel
10. You were on my mind
Other hits:  Eight Days A Week, I Got You Babe, I Hear A Symphony, Stop In The Name Of Love, Ticket To Ride


 

Things that happened in 1965

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara calls for a nationwide network of bomb shelters

Former leader of the Black Muslims, Malcolm X, is shot and killed in New York City

To protest voting rights discrimination, civil rights demonstrators begin a march for Selma to Montgomery with federal troop protection

The first commercial satellite, Early Bird, is launched into space by NASA to transmit telephone and television signals

Voting Rights Act is signed into law

Riots by young blacks in the Watts area of Los Angeles begin, causing $200 million in damage

Hurricane Betsy claims 75 lives in southern Florida and Louisiana

United States President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address

Dr. Dre, Sarah Jessica Parker, Robert Downey Jr., Shania Twain, Moby, and Ben Stiller are born

Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series

Green Bay Packers win the NFL championship

Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup

The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews, is the top grossing film

Dune by Frank Herbert is published

The Beatles' Rubber Soul is released

"Satisfaction" by Rolling Stones is a top hit

The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing songs from their new album Help!

Sony introduces the Betamax, a home video tape recorder

Nearly all of NBC's programs are now broadcast in color

I Dream of Jeannie premieres

Pep Club megaphone

Our graduation commencement speech

The speech was given by Edwin C. Johnson on May 25, 1965 and was provided to each of us with our diploma.   Mr. Johnson was a County Commissioner; State Representative, State Senator and Governor of Colorado until his retirement in 1955. 

 

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"I found the class prophecy. I'm not sure it should be printed, at least not in its entirety. Some of them are kind of cruel and some don't make any sense at all. Use your own judgment." - Linda (Gooch) Kitzhaber  11/30/2010

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