"I Remember!"
Dates in the 70s
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- 1970: My brother in law (Steve Espe) reports for the draft, only to find that they took everyone up until his number, but not his number. Barbara Sawhill
- 1970: Bombing of Cambodia, 1970. Demonstrations in Washington D.C. and colleges like mine on general student strike.... Mrs. Coon
- 1970: I was a junior in college. Protests against the war in Southeast Asia led to the shootings at Kent State and Jackson State colleges. Gregory Chetel-par
- 1971?: Getting called up for physicals (number 11 in the draft) in December, the month before the Vietnam war ended. Vin Broderick
- 1974: The first girls enter Noble and Greenough School. Joe Swayze
- 1976: The Volkswagen Rabbit replaces with VW Beatle as Volkswagen's export model to the U.S. Beatle nostalgia begins in earnest Joe Swayze
- 1979...the year of the Iranian Hostage Crisis. I was in the 6th grade and there was a Persian girl in the class who got kidnapped and held hostage by the bullies in my school each day until she "let our people go." LE Hartmann-fac
- 1979: I remember living in Paris in the fall of 1979 during the Iran Hostage Crisis. The French did not all share an American's outrage about that event. Ann Fowler Wallace, Nobles Trustee