Central bankers don't do satire as a rule, so I am going to have to strive for "kind of interesting". When I attended Class Day as a graduating senior, Gerald Ford was President, and an upand-coming fellow named Alan Greenspan was his chief economic adviser. Just weeks earlier, the last Americans remaining in Saigon had been evacuated by helicopters.
On a happier note, the Red Sox were on their way to winning the American League pennant. I skipped classes to attend a World Series game against the Cincinnati Reds. As was their wont in those days, the Sox came agonizingly close to a championship but ended up snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.