"Old times there are not forgotten"
The first Concorde flights were made across the Atlantic Ocean. Vietnam-era draft resisters received a presidental pardon, normalization talks between the United States and Vietnam opened in Paris, United States opposition to seating Vietnam in the United Nations was dropped, control of the Panama Canal was tuned back over to Panama and we learned the theory of zero based budgeting. The Trans-Alaska oil pipeline went into full operation. The Department of Energy, 12th Cabinet-level department of the federal govenrnment was signed into law by President Jimmy Carter. Inflation continued in the seven percent range and the cost of a pound of coffee reached $5 per pound. Many consumers switched to tea. Seattle Slew won horse racing's Triple Crown, the tenth horse to do so.
New book titles: A Rumor of War, Falconer, Six Men, The Immigrants and The Thornbirds.
At the movies: Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
On stage: American Buffalo, Annie and The Shadow Box
Emmy awards: Ed Flanders for Harry S.Truman: Plain SpeakingSally Field for Sybil, James Garner for The Rockford Files and Lindsay Wagner for The Bionic Woman.
January 19
Iva Toguri D'Aquino, known to the world as Tokyo Rose was pardoned by President Gerald R. Ford. A propagangda broadcaster for Japan during World War II, she had been incarcerated at the federal prison for women in Alderson, West Virginia following World War II.
May 3
Classmate Janice Gayle Curtis-Walker received a Masters Degree in Elementary Education from West Virginia College of Graduate Education.
May 10
Classmate Franklin Davis Heatherly received a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of Alabama.
August 19
Classmate Gary Lee Schiffer received a Masters Degree in Administration from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia.
October 21
Classmate David L. Bennett retired from the United States Navy with 20 years and 2 months active duty service.
October 21
Classmate Mary Ellen Thorpe-States received a Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Education from Old Dominion University.
December 31
Classmate Ida Mae Canterbury-Highlander received a Masters Degree in Education from Old Dominion University.