Class of 1968

The World in 1968

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"Golden Sands of Time . . . " Another graduating class of JHS

 

What was happening when these classmates graduated:

What happened in 1968 Major News Stories include Dr. Christian Barnard performs the first successful heart transplant, Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. , The first Big Mac goes on sale in McDonalds costing 49 cents, Boeing 747 made its maiden flight, Emergency 911 Telephone service is started in the USA, Hong Kong Flu pandemic, The Poor Peoples March on Washington, D.C, Vietnam US soldiers massacre men, women and children in My lai, Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia

 

JHS Teachers during 1968 school year:

JHS Administration:

  • Joseph Blackstead
  • Donald Ellis
  • Donald Kalina
  • Eleanor Patterson

 

Language, Library, Social Studies:

  • Linda Reaves
  • Phillip Dattola
  • Elizabeth Campbell
  • Carol Carlson
  • Barbara Edwards
  • Viola Hilton
  • Wayne Olson
  • John Fortune
  • Victory White
  • Emily Jerman
  • Betsy Heemstra
  • Daniel Burroughs
  • Gerald Hill
  • Eugene Roberts

 

Math & Science:

  • Henry Matsomoto
  • Gilbert Leslie
  • Robert Larson
  • Albert Reid
  • Eugene Hubert

 

The Arts: Music, Commercial Home:

  • Arthur Hamaoka
  • Edmund Asmir
  • Richard Moser
  • Sandra Bernstein
  • Genevieve Andrews

 

Physical Education:

  • Bruce Blevins
  • Sharon Mathis

 

 

1968 Class Officers

  • President:  William Yeago
  • Vice President:  Carol Hilton
  • Secretary-Treasurer:  Shirley Tomita

 

 

Varsity Basketball


Coach:  Bruce Blevins

 

Varsity Football

 

Captains: Jim Schmidt, Bob McKizzie, Danny Yokely, Mike Faulkner, George Arnold

Football Game Stats

JHS 12   YoHi 12

JHS 76   ASIJ 0

JHS 24   Chofu 0

JHS 46   ASIJ 12

JHS 36 Narimasu 0

JHS 6    Zama 18

JHS 12 Yamato 22

JHS 6  YoHi 24

 

 

JHS Cheerleaders

l to r:  Rita Maningo, Shirley Tomita, Liz Johnson, Dawn Carroll, Tami Edwards, Debby Smith, Nan Schell

 

JHS Activities

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