From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 25, 1971:

A local teacher received varied responses when she asked her students a traditional Thanksgiving question. After reading President Nixon’s Thanksgiving Day Proclamation to her students, Mrs. Tennyson Bland had asked the fifth and sixth graders at New York School to write down things for which they were most thankful. The most-mentioned item was “Mom and Dad,” with other “everyday” items included such as trees, birds, and the sky. Jesse Hardy expressed thankfulness for his feet; Billy Russell was thankful for “the Statue of Liberty,” and Danny Ashlock said he was grateful for the existence of “oceanography, biology, microbiology, chemistry, and fun.”