1973 Mooney Yearbook

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My latest scan is the Apogee 1973 which is the yearbook for Cardinal Mooney High School in Greece. The school opened in 1962. In this yearbook they have a graduating class of about 340 students. Notice too that they have a photo for every student but the underclass picture are very small. That made this yearbook end up with 200 pages (about 25mb).

Mooney closed suddenly at the end of the 1989 school year. The stated reasons were declining enrollment and financial difficulties. Another problem was that the school had lots of asbestos and it would have cost a lot for the asbestos abatement. Greece Central School District purchased the building and had to clean up the asbestos before they could open as their school.

Genealogy Promotions

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Many of the vendors at the 2025 RootsTech Conference offered Genealogy Promotions. Some are significant discounts on services and/or products. Check them out and see if you want to get in on the discounts. If the text end with three dots (… ) hover over the text to see the complete text.

At least one of the discounts ends today (March 9). Some offers go for another week. For a few you will have to enter an offer code. These are usually the best prices of the year.

Hit Songs of 1975 – #10

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Olivia Newton-John had her second #1 in 1975 with “Have You Never Been Mellow.” It was at the top of both the Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100 charts for the week of March 2 – 8. This would be her fourth song to sell over a million copies. There would be many more.

The song was was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female at the 18th Annual Grammy Awards, but lost to Janis Ian’s “At Seventeen.”  The list of awards that she would receive over the years is extensive.

Olivia would end up starring in the movie, Grease in 1978. Her song “Physical” would have a music video showing her exercising but we all know what it was really about.

Olivia suffered from breast cancer three times. That was what eventually caused her death on 8 August 2022, at the age of 73.

RootsTech 2025

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The RootsTech Conference starts tomorrow (March 6th). I spent some time setting up my schedule of sessions that I want to view. I ended up with 41 videos. Some I will watch live and others I will view next week. I noticed that the schedule shows everything in my time zone. I think that previously it showed times in Mountain Time zone. There appear to be videos released over 12 hours for the first two days.

There are going to be 186 online sessions. If you made the trip to Salt Lake City you would have an additional 150+ sessions to get to see.

Sessions cover a great deal of topics; some for beginners and some for more advanced genealogists. They cover research in many countries including most of western European countries, Australia, Japan, and China. There are many sessions on using DNA to solve some research. This year there are many sessions about using AI to help find sources.