Looking back on 2006, it was a year of tremendous change at Southfield High. But little changed on the state level or the national level.
The school changed leaders, but Jennifer Granholm is still the governor of Michigan, and George W. Bush is still the president of the United States.
On a worldwide scale, the war in the Mideast raged throughout the year, and will likely do so in 2007. Here’s The Southfield Jay’s wrap up of what happened in 2006:
At Southfield High
• Michael Horn becomes principal
• Marty Bulger is named as Assistant Principal
• New school wings open
• Assistant Principal Kellie Cunningham moves to Southfield- Lathrup High School
• Math teacher Greg McDowell retires
• Deidre Cary takes job as counselor at Brace-Lederle
• Band wins two grand championships
• School store closes
• 2005 graduate Phillip Vails dies
• Southfield High beats Southfield-Lathrup in football
• New dress code rule says boys must tuck in shirts
• Wanda Cook-Robinson is named superintendent
• Detention moves to Tuesdays and Wednesdays
• O-House cafeteria is demolished
• School menu dumps French Fries
In Michigan
• Tigers make it to World Series
• Gov. Jennifer Granholm is re-elected
• Proposal 2 passes, banning Affirmative Action
• Democrats gain control of state
• Pistons lose in Eastern Conference
• Ben Wallace leaves the Pistons
• University of Michigan nods to Ohio State University in football
• Lions continue to lose
• Football Coach Bo Schembechler dies
• Detroit hosts the Super Bowl
• Scream V Tour passes through town
• Dirty South Invasion Tour stops by
• Detroit hostsWrestlemania
• Google opens offices in Ann Arbor
• Feds dig for Jimmy Hoffa in Milford
• Rapper Proof dies in a Detroit nightclub
• John L. Smith gets canned by Michigan State as football coach
• University of Michigan beats Notre Dame
Across the nation
• War in Iraq continues
• Democrats gain control of House and Senate
• Former President Gerald Ford, 60 Minutes reporter Ed Bradley, soul singer James Brown and singer Gerald Levert die
• Donald Rumsfeld resigns as Secretary of Defense
• Gas prices remain high
• Kid Rock and Pamela Andersen tie and untie the knot
• Anna Nicole loses a son
• Rapper Snoop Dogg is arrested in the United Kingdom
• Rappers Lil’ Wayne and Baby kiss
• Singer R. Kelly remains on trial
• O.J. Simpson writes an if-I-did-it book
• Stanley “Tookie” Williams is executed
• Cardinals win the World Series
• Ford Motor Co. mortgages all assets
• Ford offers buyouts
• Small cars gain popularity
• Marshall Fields becomes Macy’s
• Nicole Richie shrinks to 85 pounds from 100 pounds
• Rapper Bow Wow and singer Ciara break up
• Russell Simmons and Kimora Lee split
• Rapper LL Cool J signs with G-Unit
• Vans become hottest shoes
• Leggings become popular in fashion
• Diddy expects twins with Kim Porter
• Comedian Kat Williams gets caught with four guns at an airport
• Deal or No Deal dominates TV
• Emmitt Smith wins Dancing with the Stars
• Deelishis wins Flavor of Love
Around the world
• Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death and executed
• Pluto is no longer a planet
• Vaccine developed for cervical cancer
• Augusto Pinochet of Chile dies
• Global warming continues
• China has fastest growing economy
• North Korea tests nuclear bomb
• Iran expands its nuclear program
• Bird flu hits in Asia
• Paul McCartney splits with Heather Mills
• Michael Jackson lays low
• Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa are still missing
