Just for Fun

Can anyone guess who these "hippies" are?

Things that happened in our OPHS days:

The World Population was 3.783 Billion Noble Prize for Literature: Pablo Neruda Lynda Ritchie was crowned Homecoming Queen Nov. 6, 1970 Miss America is Phyllis Ann George The words "Peace, man" was commonly used, as were the words "Far out", "Cool", "Hip", "Groovy". "Bad", and "Decent" Admit it....you used used at least one of them. "Greenpeace" was born Karen Frady was crowned Miss OPHS February 12, 1971 Apollo 15 crew explores the moons surface in the Land Rover Matt Holland is Axel Magee in the OP production of "Don't Drink the Water" Grammy Record of the year: Carole King "It's too late" Album of the year: Carole King "Tapestry" Neva Furseth is the Student Director for "Don't Drink the Water" Hulk Hogan graduates in 1971 from a Tampa high school Melanie Miles earns Valedictorian Honors and gives a brilliant speech on how our lives are like the gears in a car Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Sonny Liston die in 1970 Nelson Hellmuth struggles not to drown in one inch of water the night we graduate, now why was that Nelson? Jim Morrison, Duane Allman, Igor Stravinsky and JC Penny die in 1971 Richard Adams has the quickest motorcycle at OPHS, a Kawasaki Mach III Oscars: Best Picture "The French Connection", Best Actor: Gene Hackman Best Actress goes to Jane Fonda in "Klute" NCAA Football Champs: Nebraska (13-0-0) Sandy Minerva drives the awesome Honda 750 Wimbledon: Evonnne Goolagong d. M. Court, John Newcombe d. S. Smith Glen Pinkston gets a classic motorcycle, a Norton.  He also sets a school record by quitting 3 varsity sports in 1 year Tim Mardos gets his knee fixed the old way, with a big scar Dennis Gilbert gets his shoulder fixed, ain't football great Kentucky Derby Champion: Canonero II NCAA Basketball Champs: UCLA d. Villanova (68-62) Jeff Weisenford breaks his collarbone motorcross racing NBA Championship: Milwaukee d. Baltimore (4-0) John Lanham breaks about every bone in his body waterskiing Stanley Cup: Montreal d. Chicago (4-3) Buzzy Bannister Did not win a Dodge Superbee, the fastest car at OPHS, who did?? Protests are the "In thing" Our Great Football Season of 1 and 9 Our really great Cross Country Team won 13 straight meets! We had the first Soccer team at OP, OP won the State Championship for 2001 First year for Wrestling at OPHS 1971 #1 song hits: "Without you" Nillson, "Let's Stay together" Al Green, "Family Affair" Sly and the Family Stone, "Brand New Key" Melanie, "American Pie" Don McLean, "Theme from Shaft" Issac Hayes, "Maggie May/Reason to Believe" Rod Stewart, "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" Cher, "Uncle Albert" Paul and Linda McCartney, "You've Got a Friend" James Taylor, "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" Bee Gees, "It's Too Late" Carole King, "Brown Sugar" Rolling Stones, "Want Ads" Honey Cone,  "Joy to the World" Three Dog Night, "Just My Imagination" The Temptations, "One Bad Apple" The Osmonds,  "Me and Bobby Magee" Janis Joplin, "Indian Reservation" Paul Revere and the Raiders Honorable mentions: "Moon Shadows" Cat Stevens, "Don't Pull Your Love" Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds, "Take Me Home Country Roads" John Denver, "Love Her Madly" The Doors, "Riders on the Storm" The Doors, "Anticipation" Carley Simon, "Levon" Elton John, "Day After Day" Badfinger,  "Sooner or Later" The Grass Roots, "If" Bread, "Never Can Say Goodbye" The Jackson Five, "Proud Mary" Ike and Tina, "Eighteen" Alice Cooper, "Have you Ever Seen the Rain" Creedence Clearwater Revival, "What's Going On?" Marvin Gaye, "Oye Como Va" Santana, "Theme From Love Story" Henry Mancini, "For All We Know" The Carpenters, "What is Life?" and "My Sweet Lord" George Harrison, "When You're Hot, You're Hot" Jerry Reed, "I Just want to Celebrate" Rare Earth, "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" Lobo The Allman Brothers record "Live at the Fillmore East" The Beatles are officially "divorced" in 1971 Simon and Garfunkel break up Brett Shannon - Elected Class President Walt Disney World opened in Florida Paul Schlichtman "The worm" excels and wins at the State Cross Country Meet All in the Family debuts on TV, also "McMillan and Wife", "McCloud", and "Columbo" Wells Road could be used for parking, try the big curve Intel introduces it's first microprocessor, this is the first step to the computer you are now using now. Movies: "Dirty Harry" Clint Eastwood, "Summer of 42", "Harold and Maude", "Little Big Man", "Ryan's Daughter", "The Last Picture Show", "A Clockwork Orange", "Fiddler on the Roof", "Get Carter", "MacBeth" Noble Peace Prize: Willy Brandt (West Germany) Abbie Hoffman's "Steal this Book" was released The voting age was lowered to 18 Nixon ends the US trade embargo to China US Supreme Court ruled that busing may be ordered The graduating classes of 1989/1990 are born in 1971, some from members of the class of '71 Cost of a first class stamp was $0.06 Mono afflicted several in the Class of 71 Gas could be bought for as little as 28.9 cents a gallon, average price was about 32 cents Superbowl - Baltimore d. Dallas (16-13) World Series - Pittsburg d. Baltimore (4-3) The term "The Web" was first used Steve Murphy is known as "Murf" but others know him simply as "Bonehead" River Drive is the place to watch the submarine races, they are quite an event Char-Burger serves up the best cheeseburgers anywhere thanks to Nancy Nichols, Richard Adams, Gary Kingery, and Jeannie Turk Matthew Mayes drives the fearsome motor scooter the Honda 90 Daytona Beach is the place for the Senior trip and I realized the OPHS girls were the most beautiful girls anywhere. The first 455ci Trans Am Firebird The introduction of the 426 Hemi Cuda as seen on Nash Bridges Mercedes stops production of the 280sl Gerry Frank was the State Champion Latin Translator Lynyrd Skynyrd performs for us at OPHS, many were friends and we knew they were great before the rest of the world, and "Free Bird" would be released in 1973. I hear "Free Bird" requested at concerts to this day, and even heard the request in the animated film "Cars", totally cracked me up.

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