Thirty-Three Years, Bulldogs

Some Memories from the High School Years, boys:

12 BILLBOARD SONGS

Dream Weaver, Gary Wright

Play That Funky Music, Wild Cherry

Undercover Angel, Alan O’Day

Saturday Night, Bay City Rollers

Rich Girl, Hall & Oates

You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, Leo Sayer

We Are the Champions, Queen

Lay Down Sally, Eric Clapton

My Sharona, The Knack

YMCA, Village People

Devil Went Down to Georgia, Charlie Daniels

Funkytown, Lipps, Inc.

12 TOP TV SHOWS

Happy Days

Laverne & Shirley

M*A*S*H

Charlie’s Angels

One Day at a Time

Three’s Company

All in the Family

Welcome Back Kotter

Barney Miller

Love Boat

Fantasy Island

Soap

12 TOP GROSSING MOVIES

Rocky

King Kong

Jaws

Star Wars

Saturday Night Fever

Close Encounters

Grease

Animal House

Superman

Halloween

Apocalypse Now

Airplane

ECONOMY

(averages in today’s money, over our four years in high school)

Cost of a new home: $62,000

Cost of a new car: $6,500

Median Household Income: $15,200

Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.14

Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.92

PRESIDENT(S)

Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

12 MISCELLANEA

·    Legionnaire's disease fatally strikes 34 in Philadelphia;

·    OJ Simpson signs a record $ 2.9 million contract to play for Buffalo;

·    Four year colleges costs under $2,000;

·    Fads: bottled water, roller disco, mopeds, health foods, Farah Fawcett posters;

·    Spanking children by teachers is ruled constitutional by Supreme Court;

·    First test tube baby Louise Brown is born in England;

·    Gambling is legalized in New Jersey;

·    What's new: pocket calculators and disposable toothbrushes;

·    Worst accident in U.S. nuclear power history: partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania;

·    New "It" toy: Rubik’s Cube;

·    Hostage crisis in Iran;

·    Cordless phones and front-wheel-drive compact cars are new.

...yikes.