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Class of 1972
- Avalon Park School
- Chicago, Illinois
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Avalon Park School | 8045 S Kenwood | Chicago IL 60619
Teachers to be remembered...
- Dr. Patricia McGlynn (1st Grade)
- Mr. Carroll Oliver (7th Grade)
- Mr. Thomas J. Kerner (Principal)
- Mrs. Rorex (5th Grade)
- Mrs. Smith (6th Grade)
- Mrs. Washington (Kindergarten)
Our Avalon Park Neighborhood
Top 100 Songs of 1971 and 1972
:: TOP 100 SONGS of 1971 ::
1 Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin
2 Imagine John Lennon
3 What's Going On Marvin Gaye
4 Let's Stay Together Al Green
5 Maggie May Rod Stewart
6 American Pie Don McLean
7 Won't Get Fooled Again The Who
8 Brown Sugar Rolling Stones
9 Just My Imagination Temptations
10 Family Affair Sly and the Family Stone
11 Theme from "Shaft" Isaac Hayes
12 Me and Bobby McGee Janis Joplin
13 Baba O'Riley The Who
14 It's Too Late Carole King
15 Riders On the Storm Doors
16 Bang a Gong (Get It On) T. Rex
17 Rock and Roll Led Zeppelin
18 Tired of Being Alone Al Green
19 Changes David Bowie
20 Black Dog Led Zeppelin
21 Mercy Mercy Me Marvin Gaye
22 Roundabout Yes
23 Have You Seen Her Chi-Lites
24 Aqualung Jethro Tull
25 Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) Hollies
26 Ain't No Sunshine Bill Withers
27 Respect Yourself Staple Singers
28 Without You Nilsson
29 Tiny Dancer Elton John
30 Smiling Faces Sometimes Undisputed Truth
31 Behind Blue Eyes The Who
32 LA Woman Doors
33 Mr. Big Stuff Jean Knight
34 Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) Marvin Gaye
35 A Horse With No Name America
36 Locomotive Breath Jethro Tull
37 Clean Up Woman Betty Wright
38 You've Got A Friend James Taylor
39 Slipping into Darkness War
40 Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves Cher
41 You Are Everything Stylistics
42 It Don't Come Easy Ringo Starr
43 Thin Line Between Love and Hate Persuaders
44 Hot Pants James Brown
45 I Feel the Earth Move Carole King
46 Love Her Madly Doors
47 Wild Horses Rolling Stones
48 Life on Mars? David Bowie
49 Take Me Home, Country Roads John Denver
50 Betcha By Golly Wow Stylistics
51 Stay with Me Faces
52 Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get Dramatics
53 Spanish Harlem Aretha Franklin
54 I've Seen All Good People Yes
55 Jealous Guy John Lennon
56 Eighteen Alice Cooper
57 Superstar Carpenters
58 Indian Reservation Raiders
59 Rock Steady Aretha Franklin
60 Draggin' The Line Tommy James
61 Want Ads Honey Cone
62 Happy Xmas (War Is Over) John & Yoko & Plastic Ono Band
63 If You Really Love Me Stevie Wonder
64 Day After Day Badfinger
65 Wild Night Van Morrison
66 Treat Her Like a Lady Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
67 Do You Know What I Mean Lee Michaels
68 Don't Pull Your Love Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
69 I'd Love to Change the World Ten Years After
70 The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys Traffic
71 Going to California Led Zeppelin
72 Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey Paul & Linda McCartney
73 Never Can Say Goodbye Jackson 5
74 Peace Train Cat Stevens
75 Got To Be There Michael Jackson
76 Levon Elton John
77 Drowning in the Sea of Love Joe Simon
78 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart Bee Gees
79 I Am, I Said Neil Diamond
80 Hocus Pocus Focus
81 All Day Music War
82 She's a Lady Tom Jones
83 Baby I'm-a Want You Bread
84 I Gotcha Joe Tex
85 Coat of Many Colors Dolly Parton
86 Precious And Few Climax
87 Bargain The Who
88 Case of You Joni Mitchell
89 Maggot Brain Funkadelic
90 Signs Five Man Electrical Band
91 Funky Nassau Beginning Of The End
92 An Old Fashioned Love Song Three Dog Night
93 Escape-ism James Brown
94 Reason To Believe Rod Stewart
95 No One to Depend On Santana
96 Don't Knock My Love Wilson Pickett
97 Sooner Or Later Grass Roots
98 If Bread
99 Statesboro Blues Allman Brothers Band
100 So Far Away Carole King
:: TOP 100 SONGS of 1972 ::
1 Superstition Stevie Wonder
2 Papa Was a Rollin' Stone Temptations
3 Smoke on the Water Deep Purple
4 Lean on Me Bill Withers
5 Heart of Gold Neil Young
6 Walk on the Wild Side Lou Reed
7 You Are the Sunshine of My Life Stevie Wonder
8 If You Don't Know Me by Now Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
9 I'll Take You There Staple Singers
10 Tumbling Dice Rolling Stones
11 Love Train O'Jays
12 You're So Vain Carly Simon
13 Oh Girl Chi-Lites
14 Take It Easy Eagles
15 I'll Be Around Spinners
16 Reeling in the Years Steely Dan
17 Rocket Man Elton John
18 School's Out Alice Cooper
19 All the Young Dudes Mott the Hoople
20 The Harder They Come Jimmy Cliff
21 Back Stabbers O'Jays
22 I Can See Clearly Now Johnny Nash
23 Burning Love Elvis Presley
24 I'm Still in Love With You Al Green
25 Listen to the Music Doobie Brothers
26 Alone Again (Naturally) Gilbert O'Sullivan
27 Crocodile Rock Elton John
28 Stuck in the Middle With You Stealers Wheel
29 I Saw the Light Todd Rundgren
30 Rock and Roll, Part 2 Gary Glitter
31 Me and Mrs. Jones Billy Paul
32 Do It Again Steely Dan
33 Could It Be I'm Falling in Love Spinners
34 Garden Party Rick Nelson
35 Go All the Way Raspberries
36 Freddie's Dead Curtis Mayfield
37 You Wear It Well Rod Stewart
38 Ziggy Stardust David Bowie
39 Saturday in the Park Chicago
40 Superfly Curtis Mayfield
41 Brandy Looking Glass
42 Time in a Bottle Jim Croce
43 Starman David Bowie
44 Suavecito Malo
45 Doctor My Eyes Jackson Browne
46 Love and Happiness Al Green
47 Summer Breeze Seals and Crofts
48 The Cisco Kid War
49 I'm Stone in Love With You Stylistics
50 I Am Woman Helen Reddy
51 Suffragette City David Bowie
52 Virginia Plain Roxy Music
53 Everybody Plays the Fool Main Ingredient
54 Frankenstein Edgar Winter Group
55 Neither One of Us Gladys Knight and the Pips
56 Hello It's Me Todd Rundgren
57 Look What You Done for Me Al Green
58 Why Can't We Live Together Timmy Thomas
59 Sail Away Randy Newman
60 Ain't No Woman Four Tops
61 Too Late to Turn Back Now Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
62 Break Up to Make Up Stylistics
63 Your Mama Don't Dance Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina
64 Free Ride Edgar Winter Group
65 Day Dreaming Aretha Franklin
66 The Jean Genie David Bowie
67 Get on the Good Foot James Brown
68 Dancing in the Moonlight King Harvest
69 The Guitar Man Bread
70 Peaceful Easy Feeling Eagles
71 You Don't Mess Around With Jim Jim Croce
72 Easy Livin' Uriah Heep
73 You're Still a Young Man Tower of Power
74 Mother and Child Reunion Paul Simon
75 Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu Johnny Rivers
76 In the Rain Dramatics
77 Ventura Highway America
78 Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard Paul Simon
79 Witchy Woman Eagles
80 (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Wanna Be Right Luther Ingram
81 I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock & Roll Band) Moody Blues
82 Everything I Own Bread
83 Honky Cat Elton John
84 Top of the World Carpenters
85 I'd Love You to Want Me Lobo
86 One of a Kind (Love Affair) Spinners
87 You Ought to Be With Me Al Green
88 Amie Pure Prairie League
89 Taxi Harry Chapin
90 Rocky Mountain High John Denver
91 Telegram Sam T. Rex
92 Happy Rolling Stones
93 Operator Jim Croce
94 Hold Your Head Up Argent
95 Black and White Three Dog Night
96 Walking in the Rain With the One I Love Love Unlimited
97 Soul Makossa Manu Dibango
98 Use Me Bill Withers
99 Conquistador (live) Procol Harum
100 The World Is a Ghetto War
1 Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin
2 Imagine John Lennon
3 What's Going On Marvin Gaye
4 Let's Stay Together Al Green
5 Maggie May Rod Stewart
6 American Pie Don McLean
7 Won't Get Fooled Again The Who
8 Brown Sugar Rolling Stones
9 Just My Imagination Temptations
10 Family Affair Sly and the Family Stone
11 Theme from "Shaft" Isaac Hayes
12 Me and Bobby McGee Janis Joplin
13 Baba O'Riley The Who
14 It's Too Late Carole King
15 Riders On the Storm Doors
16 Bang a Gong (Get It On) T. Rex
17 Rock and Roll Led Zeppelin
18 Tired of Being Alone Al Green
19 Changes David Bowie
20 Black Dog Led Zeppelin
21 Mercy Mercy Me Marvin Gaye
22 Roundabout Yes
23 Have You Seen Her Chi-Lites
24 Aqualung Jethro Tull
25 Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) Hollies
26 Ain't No Sunshine Bill Withers
27 Respect Yourself Staple Singers
28 Without You Nilsson
29 Tiny Dancer Elton John
30 Smiling Faces Sometimes Undisputed Truth
31 Behind Blue Eyes The Who
32 LA Woman Doors
33 Mr. Big Stuff Jean Knight
34 Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) Marvin Gaye
35 A Horse With No Name America
36 Locomotive Breath Jethro Tull
37 Clean Up Woman Betty Wright
38 You've Got A Friend James Taylor
39 Slipping into Darkness War
40 Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves Cher
41 You Are Everything Stylistics
42 It Don't Come Easy Ringo Starr
43 Thin Line Between Love and Hate Persuaders
44 Hot Pants James Brown
45 I Feel the Earth Move Carole King
46 Love Her Madly Doors
47 Wild Horses Rolling Stones
48 Life on Mars? David Bowie
49 Take Me Home, Country Roads John Denver
50 Betcha By Golly Wow Stylistics
51 Stay with Me Faces
52 Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get Dramatics
53 Spanish Harlem Aretha Franklin
54 I've Seen All Good People Yes
55 Jealous Guy John Lennon
56 Eighteen Alice Cooper
57 Superstar Carpenters
58 Indian Reservation Raiders
59 Rock Steady Aretha Franklin
60 Draggin' The Line Tommy James
61 Want Ads Honey Cone
62 Happy Xmas (War Is Over) John & Yoko & Plastic Ono Band
63 If You Really Love Me Stevie Wonder
64 Day After Day Badfinger
65 Wild Night Van Morrison
66 Treat Her Like a Lady Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
67 Do You Know What I Mean Lee Michaels
68 Don't Pull Your Love Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
69 I'd Love to Change the World Ten Years After
70 The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys Traffic
71 Going to California Led Zeppelin
72 Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey Paul & Linda McCartney
73 Never Can Say Goodbye Jackson 5
74 Peace Train Cat Stevens
75 Got To Be There Michael Jackson
76 Levon Elton John
77 Drowning in the Sea of Love Joe Simon
78 How Can You Mend a Broken Heart Bee Gees
79 I Am, I Said Neil Diamond
80 Hocus Pocus Focus
81 All Day Music War
82 She's a Lady Tom Jones
83 Baby I'm-a Want You Bread
84 I Gotcha Joe Tex
85 Coat of Many Colors Dolly Parton
86 Precious And Few Climax
87 Bargain The Who
88 Case of You Joni Mitchell
89 Maggot Brain Funkadelic
90 Signs Five Man Electrical Band
91 Funky Nassau Beginning Of The End
92 An Old Fashioned Love Song Three Dog Night
93 Escape-ism James Brown
94 Reason To Believe Rod Stewart
95 No One to Depend On Santana
96 Don't Knock My Love Wilson Pickett
97 Sooner Or Later Grass Roots
98 If Bread
99 Statesboro Blues Allman Brothers Band
100 So Far Away Carole King
:: TOP 100 SONGS of 1972 ::
1 Superstition Stevie Wonder
2 Papa Was a Rollin' Stone Temptations
3 Smoke on the Water Deep Purple
4 Lean on Me Bill Withers
5 Heart of Gold Neil Young
6 Walk on the Wild Side Lou Reed
7 You Are the Sunshine of My Life Stevie Wonder
8 If You Don't Know Me by Now Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
9 I'll Take You There Staple Singers
10 Tumbling Dice Rolling Stones
11 Love Train O'Jays
12 You're So Vain Carly Simon
13 Oh Girl Chi-Lites
14 Take It Easy Eagles
15 I'll Be Around Spinners
16 Reeling in the Years Steely Dan
17 Rocket Man Elton John
18 School's Out Alice Cooper
19 All the Young Dudes Mott the Hoople
20 The Harder They Come Jimmy Cliff
21 Back Stabbers O'Jays
22 I Can See Clearly Now Johnny Nash
23 Burning Love Elvis Presley
24 I'm Still in Love With You Al Green
25 Listen to the Music Doobie Brothers
26 Alone Again (Naturally) Gilbert O'Sullivan
27 Crocodile Rock Elton John
28 Stuck in the Middle With You Stealers Wheel
29 I Saw the Light Todd Rundgren
30 Rock and Roll, Part 2 Gary Glitter
31 Me and Mrs. Jones Billy Paul
32 Do It Again Steely Dan
33 Could It Be I'm Falling in Love Spinners
34 Garden Party Rick Nelson
35 Go All the Way Raspberries
36 Freddie's Dead Curtis Mayfield
37 You Wear It Well Rod Stewart
38 Ziggy Stardust David Bowie
39 Saturday in the Park Chicago
40 Superfly Curtis Mayfield
41 Brandy Looking Glass
42 Time in a Bottle Jim Croce
43 Starman David Bowie
44 Suavecito Malo
45 Doctor My Eyes Jackson Browne
46 Love and Happiness Al Green
47 Summer Breeze Seals and Crofts
48 The Cisco Kid War
49 I'm Stone in Love With You Stylistics
50 I Am Woman Helen Reddy
51 Suffragette City David Bowie
52 Virginia Plain Roxy Music
53 Everybody Plays the Fool Main Ingredient
54 Frankenstein Edgar Winter Group
55 Neither One of Us Gladys Knight and the Pips
56 Hello It's Me Todd Rundgren
57 Look What You Done for Me Al Green
58 Why Can't We Live Together Timmy Thomas
59 Sail Away Randy Newman
60 Ain't No Woman Four Tops
61 Too Late to Turn Back Now Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
62 Break Up to Make Up Stylistics
63 Your Mama Don't Dance Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina
64 Free Ride Edgar Winter Group
65 Day Dreaming Aretha Franklin
66 The Jean Genie David Bowie
67 Get on the Good Foot James Brown
68 Dancing in the Moonlight King Harvest
69 The Guitar Man Bread
70 Peaceful Easy Feeling Eagles
71 You Don't Mess Around With Jim Jim Croce
72 Easy Livin' Uriah Heep
73 You're Still a Young Man Tower of Power
74 Mother and Child Reunion Paul Simon
75 Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu Johnny Rivers
76 In the Rain Dramatics
77 Ventura Highway America
78 Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard Paul Simon
79 Witchy Woman Eagles
80 (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Wanna Be Right Luther Ingram
81 I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock & Roll Band) Moody Blues
82 Everything I Own Bread
83 Honky Cat Elton John
84 Top of the World Carpenters
85 I'd Love You to Want Me Lobo
86 One of a Kind (Love Affair) Spinners
87 You Ought to Be With Me Al Green
88 Amie Pure Prairie League
89 Taxi Harry Chapin
90 Rocky Mountain High John Denver
91 Telegram Sam T. Rex
92 Happy Rolling Stones
93 Operator Jim Croce
94 Hold Your Head Up Argent
95 Black and White Three Dog Night
96 Walking in the Rain With the One I Love Love Unlimited
97 Soul Makossa Manu Dibango
98 Use Me Bill Withers
99 Conquistador (live) Procol Harum
100 The World Is a Ghetto War
Movies of 1971
Love Story was number one at the box office while The French Connection won Best Picture at the Oscars. Violence in the movies was a big story in the media with the near simultaneous release of A Clockwork Orange, Dirty Harry, and Straw Dogs. Notable movies from '71 include:
Movies of 1972
The Godfather was number one at the box office and, along with Cabaret, at the Oscars. Other notable movies of 1972 include:
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News in '71
1971: MAJOR STORIES
January 1: Advertising of cigarettes on radio and television ceases as the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act goes into effect.
January 17: The Baltimore Colts defeat the Dallas Cowboys 16-13 on a last second field goal in Super Bowl V.
January 25: Uganda's President Milton Obote is overthrown by Idi Amin.
February 9: An earthquake centered 40 miles north of Los Angeles leaves 64 dead.
March 14: Carole King is the big winner at the Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles.
April 17: The United States table tennis team ends its week-long visit to China.
May 5: More than 12,000 were arrested during three days of anti-war protests in the Washington, D.C. Thousands were imprisoned in the Washington Coliseum.
June 30: Three Soviet Soyuz 11 cosmonauts die when their oxygen supply leaks due to a faulty valve during re-entry.
June 30: The Supreme Court gives the go ahead for the New York Times and Washington Post to resume publication of the Pentagon Papers.
July 1: Ratification of the 26th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted voting rights to 18-year-olds, was completed when the legislature of the 38th State, North Carolina, ratified it.
July 3: Elections are held in Indonesia for the first time in 16 years.
August 15: President Nixon orders a 90 day wage and price freeze.
September 13: Over 1,000 state troopers storm and take back the state prison in Attica, New York, leaving 10 hostages and 30 convicts dead.
October 23: The United Nations recognizes the communists in Peking (Beijing) as the legitimate government of China in a vote opposed by the United States.
November 13: Mariner 9 becomes the first space probe to orbit another planet as it encounters Mars.
November 15: The People's Republic of China is seated at the United Nations for the first time.
November 24: Hijacker D.B. Cooper parachutes out of a Northwest Orient 727 with $200,000 at 10,000 feet and is never seen again.
December 3: War breaks out between Pakistan and India over Kashmir.
December 10: William Rehnquist becomes the fourth Nixon Supreme Court appointee to be confirmed by Congress.
December 17: A 15-day war between India and Pakistan over Bangladesh ends.
December 22: Austrian Kurt Waldheim is chosen as secretary-general of the United Nations.
News in '72
1972: MAJOR STORIES
January 16: The Dallas Cowboys defeat the Miami Dolphins 24-3 to win Super Bowl VI.
January 26: A bomb explodes aboard a Yugoslav Airlines DC-9 at 33,000 feet. Incredibly, a stewardess survives the crash.
February 3-13: Japan becomes the first Asian nation to host the Winter Olympics.
February 21-28: Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to visit China.
March 30: Provisional government in Northern Ireland is suspended and direct rule from London is reinstated.
April 15: Bombing of North Vietnam by the U.S. begins again.
May 3: J. Edgar Hoover dies ending a 48-year reign of terror as director of the FBI. L. Patrick Gray is named as acting FBI director.
May 15: The island of Okinawa is returned to Japan by the United States.
May 15: President candidate and noted-racist George C. Wallace is shot while campaigning in Maryland. He is left paralyzed but does not withdraw from the race, finishing third.
June 17: Five "third-rate buglers" are arrested after breaking into the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex in Washington.
July 18: Unhappy with the assistance he is getting from the Soviets and hoping to warm relations with the West, Egypt's Anwar Sadat orders Soviet military advisors out of the country.
August 26-September 11: The Summer Olympics are held in Munich, Germany. Arab terrorists murder 11 Israeli athletes and coaches.
September 1: Temperamental Bobby Fischer becomes the first American to win the world chess title.
September 23: Martial law is declared in the Philippines by President Ferdinand Marcos.
October 24: Jackie Robinson, who was the first black baseball player to play in the major leagues, dies at age 53.
November 7: Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew easily win reelection over George McGovern and R. Sargent Shriver.
November 14: The Dow-Jones Industrial Average reaches 1,000 for the first time.
December 19: NASA's Apollo mission ends with the splash-down of Apollo 17. The Apollo 17 astronauts would be the last people of the century to walk on the moon.
December 29: An Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes into the Everglades killing 99 of 163 onboard.
December 31: Baseball superstar Roberto Clemente is killed in an airplane crash while attempting to deliver disaster relief supplies to earthquake victims in Managua, Nicaragua.
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