Anti Draft Rally - The Summer Demonstration
(Photo by Jay Keenan)

This photo above depicted a group mostly comprised of members of Plymouth-Canton Committee Against Registration and the Draft (CARD) during the anti-draft rally in the summer of 1980.  Many of those CARD members were Plymouht Canton and Plymouth Salem High School students, alumni, or teachers, who were opposed to the registration of the military draft.  The rally took place on July 21, 1980, in and around Kellogg Park in downtown Plymouth, MI.   Anti-Draft Rally's became a good subject matter for Keenan to photograph during his high school days, as this photo won him a second consecutive first place award at the high school student paper for Plymouth Canton and Plymouth Salem High Schools, called the "C.E.P. Perspective."  The photo appeared in the September 19, 1980 edition.  C.E.P. stoo for Centennial Educational Park, the campus that the two Plymouth-Canton School District high schools were on.  The student papers for the two schools had 'merged' with each other over the summer.  The judge of the Schoolcraft jounalism contest was a local professional photographer who commented, "I am very impressed with the work that Jay Keenan is turing out.  The spontaneity of the shot and the viewpoint of the photographer clearly indicate that this young man is not afraid to step into a situation and grap his picture.  One of the hardest jobs of novice photographers is to place oneself into the middle of a situation, confront his subject(s) and return to his publication with a photograph and to do this consistently as Keenan's other entries indicate.  GIve this man a journalism degree (with emphasis in writing) and he could become a highly desirable photojournalist."