Reunion Memory Book and Video

If you would like to purchase a memory book and video of the reunion, send $10.00 with a request for the memory book and video to:


Betty Hasz Smith
3608 East Copper Kettle Way
Orange, California 92867

October Newsletter

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Reunion Reservation Form

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Questionnaire

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Montclair High School's Class of 1969 ~ 40th Reunion details

When:
October 24, 2009

6:00 PM to Midnight

Where:
The Broadway Room
@
Imagine That!

965 W. Foothill Blvd.

Upland, CA 91786

Click here for the Reservation Form

Organizer: Sandra Beeler

Please feel free to email any photos to Cavaliers1969@gmail.com to have them added to this blog!

Also: MHS Classes 1965 to 1973 are welcome to join in with the festivities!!

May Newsletter

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1969 Was The Year When.......

US GDP : $982.2 billion
Federal spending: $183.64 billion
Federal debt: $365.8 billion
Median Household Income
(current dollars): $8,389
Consumer Price Index: 36.7
Unemployment: 3.6%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.06

• Richard M. Nixon is inaugurated 37th president of the U.S. (Jan. 20).
• Stonewall riot in New York City marks beginning of gay rights movement (June 28).Apollo 11 astronauts—Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins—take man's first walk on moon (July 20).
• Sen. Edward M. Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of fatal accident at Chappaquiddick, Mass. (July 18), in which Mary Jo Kopechne was drowned—gets two-month suspended sentence (July 25).
• Woodstock Festival (Aug. 15–17).
• Sesame Street debuts.
• Internet (ARPA) goes online.
  

Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday
Music: String Quartet No. 3, Karel Husa
Drama: The Great White Hope, Howard Sackler

Oscars awarded in 1969
Academy Award, Best Picture: Oliver!, John Woolf, producer (Columbia)

Nobel Prize for Literature: Samuel Beckett (Ireland)

Grammys awarded in 1969

Record of the Year: "Mrs. Robinson," Simon and Garfunkel
Album of the Year: By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Glen Campbell (Capitol)
Song of the Year: "Little Green Apples," Bobby Russell, songwriter

Miss America: Judith Anne Ford (IL)

In Science

Nobel Prizes:
Chemistry: Derek H. R. Barton (UK) and Odd Hassel (Norway), for study of organic molecules

Physics: Murray Gell-Mann (US), for study of subatomic particles

Physiology or Medicine: Max Delbruck, Alfred D. Hershey, and Salvador E. Luria (all US), for study of mechanism of virus infection in living cells

• Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the moon.
• The first in vitro fertilization of a human egg is performed in Cambridge, England.
• ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) goes online in December, connecting four major US universities. Designed for research, education, and government organizations, it is the foundation upon which the Internet will eventually be built.
• The scanning electron microscope is developed.
• The use of DDT is banned in residential areas.

Events

• In August, more than half a million people gather in the small, upstate New York town of Bethel (near Woodstock, N.Y.) for four days of rain, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Performers include Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Jefferson Airplane and Sly and the Family Stone.
• A Rolling Stones fan is killed at the group's Altamont, California, concert by members of Hell's Angels.
• The FCC bans all cigarette advertising on television and radio.
• Children's Television Workshop introduces Sesame Street.

Movies

• Midnight Cowboy, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Wild Bunch, Easy Rider, Anne of the Thousand Days

Books

• Robert Coover, Pricksongs and Descants
• John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
• Mario Puzo, The Godfather
• Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint
• Jean Stafford, Collected Stories
• Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

From: http://www.infoplease.com/year/1969.html

It Was 1969.......

....And you were rockin' your life away to some of these songs!

1969's Greatest Hits
1.	Build Me Up Buttercup - Foundations (Billboard High Chart: #3)
2.	Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond (Billboard High Chart: #4)
3.	Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Steam (Billboard High Chart: #1)
4.	More Today Than Yesterday - Spiral Staircase (Billboard High Chart: #12)
5.	Mah-Na-Mah-Na (Mahna Mahna) - Piero Umiliani (Billboard High Chart: #55)
6.	Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield (Billboard High Chart: #10)
7.	My Way - Frank Sinatra (Billboard High Chart: #27)
8.	Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Billboard High Chart: #2)
9.	Something - the Beatles (Billboard High Chart: #3)
10.	Sugar Sugar - Archies (Billboard High Chart: #1)
11.	Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette (Billboard High Chart: #19)
12.	Touch Me - Doors (Billboard High Chart: #3)
13.	Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones (Billboard High Chart: #1)
14.	Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Billboard High Chart: #2)
15.	Hooked On A Feeling - B.J. Thomas (Billboard High Chart: #5)
16.	I Can't Get Next To You - Temptations (Billboard High Chart: #1)
17.	Come Together - the Beatles (Billboard High Chart: #1)
18.	Grazing In The Grass - Friends of Distinction (Billboard High Chart: #3)
19.	Traces - Classics IV & Dennis Yost (Billboard High Chart: #2)
20.	Hawaii 5-0 - Ventures (Billboard High Chart: #4)
21.	It's Your Thing - The Isley Brothers (Billboard High Chart: #2)
22.	My Cherie Amour - Stevie Wonder (Billboard High Chart: #4)
23.	Hot Fun In The Summertime - Sly and the Family Stone (Billboard High Chart: #2)
24.	Someday We'll Be Together - Diana Ross and the Supremes (Billboard High Chart: #1)
25.	Everybody's Talkin' - Nilsson (Billboard High Chart: #6)
26.	Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley (Billboard High Chart: #1)
27.	Everyday People - Sly & Family Stone (Billboard High Chart: #1)
28.	Crimson and Clover - Tommy James and the Shondells (Billboard High Chart: #1)
29.	Time of the Season - Zombies (Billboard High Chart: #3)
30.	Down On The Corner - CCR (Billboard High Chart: #3)
31.	Twenty Five Miles - Edwin Starr (Billboard High Chart: #6)
32.	Worst That Could Happen - Brooklyn Bridge (Billboard High Chart: #3)
33.	Love's Been Good To Me - Frank Sinatra (Billboard High Chart: #75)
34.	Ruben James - Kenny Rogers & the First Edition (Billboard High Chart: #26)
35.	A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash (Billboard High Chart: #2)
36.	Gimme Gimme Good Lovin - Crazy Elephant (Billboard High Chart: # 12)
37.	You've Made Me So Very Happy - Blood, Sweat and Tears (Billboard High Chart: #2)
38.	Give Peace A Chance - John Lennon (Billboard High Chart: #14)
39.	Get Back - Beatles (Billboard High Chart: #1)
40.	Wedding Bell Blues - The 5th Dimension (Billboard High Chart: #1)
41.	Alice's Rock and Roll Restuaraunt - Arlo Guthrie (Billboard High Chart: #97)
42.	Stand! - Sly and the Family Stone (Billboard High Chart: #22)
43.	Isrealites - Desmond Dekker and the Aces (Billboard High Chart: #9)
44.	Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) (Billboard High Chart: #2)
45.	Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday - Stevie Wonder (Billboard High Chart: #7)
46.	Put A Little Love In Your Heart - Jackie DeShannon (Billboard High Chart: #4)
47.	These Eyes - Guess Who (Billboard High Chart: #6)
48.	Jingo - Santana (Billboard High Chart: #56)
49.	I Can Hear Music - Beach Boys (Billboard High Chart: #24)
50.	Memphis Underground - Herbie Mann (Billboard High Chart: #44)
51.	Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan (Billboard High Chart: #7)
52.	Eli's Coming - Three Dog Night (Billboard High Chart: #10)
53.	Leaving On A Jet Plane - Peter Paul and Mary (Billboard High Chart: #1)
54.	The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkle (Billboard High Chart: #7)
55.	I've Gotta Be Me - Sammy Davis, Jr (Billboard High Chart:#11)
56.	Kick Out The Jams - MC5 (Billboard High Chart: #82)
57.	I'm Gonna Make You Love Me - Supremes and Temptations (Billboard High Chart: #2)
58.	Kozmic Blues - Janis Joplin (Billboard High Chart: #41)
59.	Crystal Blue Persuasion - Tommy James and the Shondells (Billboard High Chart: #1)
60	Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman (Billboard High Chart: #37)
61.	I Got a Line On You - Spirit (Billboard High Chart: #25)
62.	Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - Crosby, Stillsand Nash (Billboard High Chart: #21)
63.	Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In - the 5th Dimension (Billboard High Chart: #1)
64.	In The Ghetto - Elvis Presley (Billboard High Chart: #3)
65.	Spinning Wheel - Blood Sweat and Tears (Billboard High Chart: #2)
66.	Chelsea Morning - Judy Collins (Billboard High Chart: #78)
67.	Listen To The Band - the Monkees (Billboard High Chart: #63)
68.	Yesterday, When I Was Young - Roy Clark (Billboard High Chart: #19)
69.	And When I Die - Blood, Sweat and Tears (Billboard High Chart: #2)
70.	Commotion - CCR (Billboard High Chart: #30)
71.	Pinball Wizard - The Who (Billboard High Chart: #19)
72.	Am I The Same Girl - Barbara Acklin (Billboard High Chart: #79)
73.	Hot Smoke and Sassafras - The Bubble Pupply (Billboard High Chart: #14)
74.	Marrakesh Express - Crosby, Stills and Nash (Billboard High Chart: #28)
75.	In The Year 2525 - Zager and Evans (Billboard High Chart: #1 )