• The graduating class included:
KATHY LYNN ADAMS
LAURIE LEE ARNOLD
MARY LOU ATKINS
ANNE DUDLEY BARNES
WILLIAM CLARK BENNETT IV
THOMAS ASHLEY BOWMAN
CHERYLE ANNETTE CARTER
KATHY ANN CHAMBERS
SHELIA KAY CLEMENT
PAULA DANDRIDGE COLEMAN
ANN LLEWELLYN COUCH
JAIMIE SINGLETON CRAFTON
WILLIAM ROYAL CROWDER
CONNIE MARIE DANIEL
JANICE MARIE DANIEL
BARBARA LYNN DAVIS
JOY ANN DAVIS
NANCY ANN DUNCANSON
NINA LEE EPPERSON
HARRY SYDNOR FELTS JR
VICKI ALLEN FRY
PATRICIA KRISTIN GAY
GEORGE SAMUEL GEE
ANDREW  EPES HARRIS III
MARY AGATHA HILL
ELIZABETH WATTS IRBY
MICHAEL WAYNE JUSTIS
JEFFREY LYNN MAITLAND
MARJORIE LOUISE MARKER
BARBARA ANNE MILROY
ELIZABETH GAIL MUNDEN
BARRY GLENN NEWCOMB
SUSAN RALSTON NUNNELLY
KAREN JANE PALMORE
CHARLES HAROLD PARRISH JR
TAMMIE LEA POWELL
ROBERT GIBSON RAGSDALE JR
MICHAEL WYATT REED
LISA TERRELL REGISTER
HELENE RENEE RITCHIE
RONEY ROWLAND III
TAMARA YATES SHELTON
DANNY BOLLING TURNER JR
JOHN STUART WHITE
CULLEN CARRINGTON WHITE III
WILLIAM SIMMONS WILKINSON
JAMES MICHAEL WILLIAMS
KIM IRBY WRAY

 
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Classmates with 2nd Generation Graduates from Kenston:
William Clark Bennett IV (son)
George Samuel Gee (son, daughter)
Jeffrey Lynn Maitland (stepson)

Barry Glenn Newcomb (son)

James Michael Williams (son)
Elizabeth Watts Irby (daughter)

Classmates with 2nd Generation Students at Kenston:
Connie Marie Daniel Bailey (daughter)
Nancy Ann Duncanson Wilson (daughter)
Jeffrey Lynn Maitland (daughter)
James Michael Williams (daughter)

Classmates who made their final flight, and have Joined the Angels:
William Clark Bennett IV
Danny Bolling Turner, Jr.
 

To jog your memory and provide a little nostalgia, here are a few significant events that occurred in our graduation year.

Major Events of 1979

Shah overthrown in Iranian revolution.

Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile.

US embassy in Iran seized by "students", and embassy staff held hostage.

Saddam Hussein becomes President of Iraq.

Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first woman Prime Minister.

Three Mile Island nuclear accident - a partial meltdown of a reactor occurs in the worst civilian nuclear accident in US history, at Midtown, a suburb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

USSR and USA sign the SALT II treaty, limiting nuclear arms.

Soviets forces invade Afghanistan.

Voyager I discovers faint ring system around Jupiter.

VisiCalc, first spreadsheet software introduced.

Former US space station, Skylab, re-enters the Earth's atmosphere and debris is scattered in the Indian Ocean and Western Australia.

Ugandan dictator, Idi Admin, deposed.

Debut of the Garfield comic strip.

Muhammad Ali announces his retirement from boxing (although he will later, briefly, return).

Sony introduces the Walkman.

Sandinista rebels enter Managua, winning the civil war in Nicaragua.

Rhodesia becomes Zimbabwe.

First European Ariane rocket is launched.

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