1970 Whittier High

Need an excuse to support our Alma Mater? Here is a good one...

Starting to think about holiday gifts? Did you know that you could have a seat dedicated to a loved one in the Vic Lopez auditorium? What a great gift for the person that has everything!

It’s been 8 years....RIP Keith.

Hey Cardinals check out these Homecoming throwbacks Missing this year’s Homecoming festivities, can’t way to celebrate with the Class of 2021

Have you ever wondered why this crest in the auditorium is protected? Check out the inscription in the plaque above for the history, those who honor it as a sy...mbol of the thoughts expressed in the creed of Whittier High School have traditionally shown their respect by walking around rather than over it. See more

We are missing our reunion this weekend save the date for 2021 Oct 16.

50+1 reunion is next Oct 16, 2021. NOT this weekend due to Covid. Stay safe & healthy & see you next year! & don’t get yourself on the memorial list!!!!

Calling all Alumni! We want to create an awesome ‘Once A Cardinal, Always A Cardinal’ video highlighting alumni from all decades. We have 16 submissions so far ...representing the class of 1960 all the way to 2000. Don’t let your class be left out! Check out the letter for video requirements and submission info. Please submit by next Wed. 10/7. Hey Cardinals! See more

Are you working on your "Once a Cardinal, Always a Cardinal" video? Here is a new email address to send it to: [email protected] We were having some issues with your submissions not going through. Thanks to Jeff Hathaway for sending his! Help our class to represent!! See post below about what is needed. Just send it to this email address I have posted here. Thanks!!

These are last 5 interesting facts from 1970. Enjoy! 46) As the Stooges’ Fun House inspired the more primal future punkers, the Velvet Underground’s Loaded, released Nov. 15, inspired the artsier ones thanks to this album and songs such as Sweet Jane and Rock & Roll. 47) Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs gave Eric Clapton the excellent foil of guest guitarist Duane Allman for most of Derek and the Dominos debut double-album, and songs such as Nobody Knows You Whe...n You’re Down and Out and Key To The Highway soar when they get going. And then there’s Layla herself, which with Clapton, Allman, and that beautiful piano outro remains a stunner. 48) Gimme Shelter, the Maysles brothers documentary about the Rolling Stones 1969 tour is the bookend to the Woodstock doc released earlier in the year. Where Woodstock captures the peace and love that had already started in the ’70s, Gimme Shelter, which included footage of the infamous Altamont festival in which a fan was fatally stabbed, feels more fitting for what was to come. 49) The tragic romance of Oliver and Jenny in Love Story arrived on Dec. 16, and over that month and beyond became so popular it remains the box office champion of films released in 1970 with $136 million in unadjusted-for-inflation stacks of cash. Ryan O’Neal and Ali McGraw were the two lovers. Tommy Lee Jones made his film debut in a small role. 50) Loretta Lynn hadn’t been in that cabin, on a hill in Butcher Holler, for quite a spell when she Coal Miner’s Daughter hit No. 1 on the country charts a few months after its Oct. 5 release. But she remembered it all and put it in this song which rightly became her signature tune. And this is the end of 50 facts that took place in 1970. I hope you enjoyed the memories.

The Alumni Association is having a membership drive! Celebrating 120 years of Whittier High School. We are requesting videos of 'once a cardinal, always a cardinal' Please read below.

#41-45 interesting facts from 1970... 41) The Public Broadcasting System debuts on Oct. 5, taking over from the National Educational Television network that had existed in one form another since 1954. Initial programs included transfers from NET such as Sesame Street and Washington Week, as well as reruns of British shows such as Doctor Who. 42) Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who was exiled to a labor camp for eight years by Stalin, and still severely restricte...d by Soviet leaders after his release, is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Oct. 8. His works include One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago, an account of the Soviet prison camps that was written before he won the Nobel but not published until several years later. 43) Cartoonist Garry Trudeau debuts Doonesbury on Oct. 26, leaping off from the Bull Tales comic he’d done at Yale and reinventing some of those characters such as Mike and B.D. as students at the fictional Walden College. It quickly becomes a hit and five years later wins Trudeau a Pulitzer Prize. 44) Author Toni Morrison publishes her first novel, The Bluest Eye, on Oct. 29. Its story of a young black girl who feels inferior due to the overt and internal racism in her life touches on themes not just of racism but also the white lifestyles dominant in the culture, religion, and shame. Not an overnight success, The Bluest Eye slowly grew into a classic of literature, and Morrison a future Pulitzer and Nobel laureate. 45) The Grateful Dead released two classic albums in 1970, Workingman’s Dead in the summer, and American Beauty on Nov. 1. The latter gets the spotlight for songs such as Truckin’, Sugar Magnolia, and Friend of the Devil, though Uncle John’s Band and Casey Jones on the former are none too shabby.

Someone from my class Whittier High 1970 stopped by the school when I wasn’t there on Wednesday. Sorry I missed you. Security didn’t get your name. You wondered if our reunion was still on & sorry to say it has been postponed to October 2021 50+1. Tell me was it you?

Some more interesting facts from 1970..... 36) Monday Night Football premieres on ABC on Sept. 21 with Howard Cosell, Keith Jackson and former Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback Dandy Don Meredith in the booth. It’s an instant hit reportedly Monday night moviegoing dips and bowling leagues shift their schedules to Tuesday. Impress your friends with the first final score: Cleveland Browns over the New York Jets 31-21. 37) Two more new sitcoms premiere when The Odd Couple and T...he Partridge Family arrive on Sept. 24-25. Jack Klugman and Tony Randall are terrific as Oscar and Felix, the mismatched roommates. And Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Danny Bonaduce and company are instantly popular as the musical family, though I might have sang I Think I Love You with Susan Dey in mind. 38) Get on up! James Brown’s double-album Sex Machine drops on Sept. 30 and if it can’t make you move then or now you might be dead. Stay on the scene, like a lovin’ machine! 39) Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret, is published on Oct. 1 and quickly becomes a classic of modern YA literature with its franker-than-normal look at the life of a tween or teen girl. 40) The big, beautiful voice of Janis Joplin, 27, is silenced Oct. 4 when she dies of an accidental heroin overdose at her Hollywood motel, her psychedelic-painted Porsche parked outside her room when she is found. Break another little bit of my heart now, darling.

Hello Cardinals!! The Whittier High School Alumni Association is creating a series of videos for the school’s 120th Anniversary. They will be released in conjunction with Whittier High’s virtual 2020 homecoming events. One video we are seeking to make is Once a Cardinal, Always a Cardinal, and we are inviting you and other alumni to participate. To participate, record a video (approx 10-15 seconds) of you saying the following: Name Graduating Class... Occupation or Distinction Once a Cardinal, Always a Cardinal (Ex.: Janice Lanham Zolnekoff, Class of 1970, WHS Clerk, Once a Cardinal, Always a Cardinal) When done, upload your video into an e-mail and send it to [email protected]. If possible, please complete by September 25. Thanks! See more

Here are 10 interesting facts from 1970....since I missed sending them last week... Enjoy!! 26) Best-selling British thriller writer Len Deighton’s Bomber is published. It is the first novel ever written on a word processor, the IBM MT/ST (Magnetic Tape/Selectric Typewriter), which reportedly weighed 200 pounds and cost $10,000. 27) A new syndicated radio program, American Top 40, debuts on July 4. Hosted by Casey Kasem, who at the same time was voicing Shaggy on Scooby-...Continue reading

Just saw that KVCR Channel 24 on Whittier Spectrum is showing at 8:30-11:00pm tonight Tue Sept 1 a show 70s Soul Superstars (My Music) Patti LaBelle hosting an all[star lineup of Motown, Rhythm and blues, souls & disco artists including the Commodores, Sister Sledge and Heatwave. You might look and see if it is playing in your area.