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CLASS HISTORY
On this page you will find "The WPHS Campus", "The Early Years", "Our Senior Year 1959-1960", the "21st reunion", and the "40th reunion" photos scroll down to see all sections
THE WPHS CAMPUS
AS IT WAS IN 1960 AND AS IT IS TODAY
WPHS in 1960 |
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The campus is used today by OCPS as the Winter Park 9th Grade Center |
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View looking South showing the courtyard between the office and the Auditorium |
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View looking South from Huntington Ave |
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View looking South between the office and the Auditorium |
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View looking South between the office and the Auditorium showing the entrance to the library |
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View looking South between the office and the Auditorium showing the entrance to the library
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View of Courtyard between the Cafeteria and the main classroom building |
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View from Courtyard between the Cafeteria and the main classroom building looking toward gymnasium |
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View from courtyard entrance door between the Cafeteria and the main classroom building looking down the first floor hall. Main school entrance is at end of the hall |
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View from Courtyard between the Cafeteria and the main classroom building looking toward gymnasium |
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View from gymnasium looking toward Courtyard between the Cafeteria and the main classroom building |
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View from gymnasium looking toward the main classroom building side entrance |
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View of gymnasium looking toward the side entrance. Front of Gym is to the right |
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View of gymnasium front entrance |
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View of Auditorium front entrance |
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View of Auditorium East side with play field on left |
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View along Huntington Avenue looking East in front of Auditorium East side with play field on right
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View toward the Huntington Avenue front entrance to the gymnasiumt - Anybody up for a little "B"ball
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The Early Years
First Grade
1948-1949
L-R: Miss Peacock, ?, Connie Kelley, Bill Shiverly, ?,?,?, Jerry Walls, Gordan Evans, Janet Zeak, ?, Keith Raterie,
?, Sharon Fuller, ?, Joe Rutland,?,?, Carol Young,?, Judy Johnson, Edward Medcalf, Judy Duckworth, Mary Durant. |
Second Grade
1949-1950
Top Row L-R: Miss Gaines , David Payne, Harley Bailey, Jimmie McCord Charlie Rosenfelt, Robert Burleson, Jerry Adams, Clark Lambert, Jean Holler,
Secand Row: Fleeda Davis, Jeff Pitman, Robey Roberson, Charlton ?, Gloria ?, Robbie Vestal Third Row: Marion Justice, Joe Rutland, Sara Jane Evans, Carol Young, Shirley Barnum, Ellen Durant
Fourth Row: David Mcnair, Lynn Niting, Jean Sias, Nicky Brant, Barbara Buchanan, Ann Taylor, Goldie Davis
Fifth Row: Danny Wiser, Nancy Swartout, Don Blackwell, Susan Lipscomb, Pauline Sanford
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Second Grade Band
1949-1950
Standing L-R: Pauline Sanford, Robbie Vestal, Clark Lambert, Joe Rutland/Donald Blackwell, Nickey Brant, Jean Holler, Mary Ellen Durant, Barbara Buchanan
Sitting: Shirley Ann Barnum/, Tommey Holburn, Robert Burelson, Lynn Niting, Fleedia Davis, Marion Justice
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Mrs Keene's Fourth Grade
1950-1951
Top Row: Mrs Keene, Clark Lambert, David McNair, Joe Rutland, Nicky Brandt, Oliver Staley, Robert Brown, Danny Carr, Jerry Meade, Kent Lanard, David Livingston, Robie Vestal, Lance Jensen, Henry Jennings
Bottom Row: Jack Schmidt, Penny Lorbach, Judy Duckworth, Brenda Britt, Kathy, Patty Bates, Pauline Sandfort, Claudia Sowers, Barbara Ann Ellis, Sarah Evans, Sharon Fender, Barbara Jean Buchanan, Wilma Thomas, Carol Young, Ginger George |
Mrs Dieffenwiert's Fourth Grade
1950-1951
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Top Row: Mrs Dieffenwiert, David Wright, Robbie Robinson, Chip Emerson, Eddie Hightower, Bruce Sertt, David Johnson, Dennie Steelman, David Payne, Ralph Franks, Taylor Stokes, Bobby Sutphin,Robert Bischoff, Joe Mozzer,Paul Bloningen
Bottom Row: Ronnie Hogan, Judy Johnson, Ann Wages, Goldie Davis, Molly Darrah, Raven Reed, Sandra Gremillian, Pat LaCroix, Sally Maynard, Suzanne Lipscombe, Janet Berger, Dorothy Reiche, Mary Ann Pierce, Linda Prevatt, Mike Kuzou |
Combined Brownie Day Camp
195?
L-R-Fleedia Davis, Judy Crawford, Jean Holler, Sally Maynard, Raven Reed, Shirley Barnum, Cathy Buchanan, Nancy Buchanan, Loralee Smith, GeeGee Wattles, Sharon Fuller, Connie Kelley, Barbara Ellis, Ginny Riggs, JoAnn Pflug, Pattsy Buchanan, Kathy Stone, Anita Ellenback, Barbara Buchanan
If anyone can identify the year and any other Brownies please let us know asap
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Do you remember "Smoke Signals"?
Art work by Jay Landers
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Under Construction
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Linda Prevatt and Jay Landers,
Sara Jane Evansand Hunky Huckapiller
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Danny Carr encourages a reluctant
Danny Wiser to dance with Judy Duckworth
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Nancy and Billy |
Danny Wiser, Judy Duckworth, ?, and GeeGee Wattles |
Winter Park 1954- 1955
Under Construction
Winter Park 1955- 1956
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Sally James
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Under Construction
Ronnie Calos |
Billy Mosher |
Danny Carr |
Jay Landers |
Robbie Robinson |
Mike Wenninger |
Danny Wiser |
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Winter Park 1955- 1956
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Glenridge Football 1956
Back Row: Billy Blackburn, Ronnie Caloss, Gene Mooney, Ken Kilbourne, Al West, Steve Toothaker, Dewey Ramsby, Bill Vacca, Gary Teague, Pete Hudson, Steve Cook, Chan Muller, John Britten, Elsworth Jerrett, Billy Mosher
Middle Row: Butch Carden, Charlie Rosenfelt, Harry Amidon, Richard Giannini,Max Morris, Bill Cornell, Chip Emerson,Bud Adams, Don Griffin, Randy Larson
Front Row: Chaney Mason, Beano Colado, Bob Sutphin, Mike Johns, Frank Ferguson, Mike Stearman, Mike Wenninger, John Mathews, Mike Mosher, Steve King, Danny Carr, Jim Thompson, Bob Cozad, Richard Winslow, Bobby Harrison
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Glenridge Basketball 1956
Back Row: Danny Carr, Mike Stearman, Mike Mosher,Bob Sutphin, Bobby Harrison, Mike Wenninger, Skinny Bob Mosher
Front Row: Billy Mosher, Danny Wiser, Jim Thompson, Butch Carden, Billy Blackburn
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Our Senior Year 1959-1960
Under Construction
September 1959
September 6, First day of our Senior school year was the day after labor day
Class of 1960 assembly in gymnasium
September 11, The US Congress passed a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans.
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12, NBC launched "Bonanza," the first color western on TV. Michael Landon played Little Joe, Lorne Greene played Ben Cartwright, and Dan Blocker played Hoss.
Seniors doing big business
September 14, The Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.
September 15, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrived in the United States to begin a 13-day visit.
September 17, The North American Aviation X-15 rocket plane, piloted by Scott Crossfield, made its first powered flight.
Mr. Creech discusses the news
September 17, Typhoon Sara killed 2,000 in Japan & Korea. 840 people were left dead or missing in South Korea.
September 18th First football game Bartow 14 Wildcats 19
September 19, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reacted angrily during a visit to Los Angeles upon being told that, for security reasons, he wouldn’t be allowed to visit Disneyland.
September 22, The first telephone cable linking Europe and the United States was inaugurated.
Skipper Palmer, Sandra Woodworth and Danny Carr
debate geometric theory with Mr. Gordon
September 25, President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Khrushchev began Camp David talks.
September 25, Football game Cocoa 7 Wildcats 0
September 27, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concluded his visit to the United States. During the visit he debated with Richard Nixon. He also saw the filming of Can Can and the found the dance immoral.
September 27, Typhoon Vera battered the main Japanese island of Honshu, killing nearly 5,000 people.
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Senior Class sponsored a Rock & Roll concert fundraiser in the WPHS auditorium with Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon- "Tallahassee Lassie" was in the top 10 on National hit parade. Freddy held the record for the most appearances (110 times) on Dick Clark's American Bandstand.
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October 1959
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October 2, Football game Deland 14 Wildcats 0n
October 5, Maya Lin, American architect who designed the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., was born.
October 7, Mario Lanza opera singer and temperamental movie star, died of a heart attack in Rome.
October 7, Saddam Hussein participated in a Baath team that ambushed Iraqi strongman Abdel-Karim Kassem in Baghdad, wounding him. Saddam, wounded in leg, fled country.
October 9, Football game Bishop Moore 28 Wildcats 0
October 10, Pan American Airlines became the first airline to offer regular flights around world.
Lynda Bussells and Eddie Hightower create a secret potion in Chemistry lab
October 14, Errol Flynn, US actor (Captain Blood), died of heart attack at age 50.
October 15, Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, aka 'Fergie,' was born.
October 15, The TV show "The Untouchables" premiered with Robert Stack as Eliot Ness. It was produced by Bert Granet and ran to 1963.
October 16, Football game Boone 26 Wildcats 6
October 16, George C. Marshall US army general and Nobel Prize winner (1953), died in Virginia.
October 19, William Gibson's "Miracle Worker," premiered in NYC.
October 21, The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in NYC.
October 21, Dr. Werner Von Braun started work at NASA. By the late 1960s his rockets were taking men to the moon. The Dr at age 25 had masterminded the V-2 rocket for Nazi Germany.
October 21, Contra revolutionaries bombed Havana.
October 22, Bob Merrill's musical "Take me Along," premiered in NYC.
October 23, Football game Sanford 28 Wildcats 13
October 23, "Weird Al" Yankovic, parody singer (Eat It, UHF, Naked Gun), was born in California.
October 23, Chinese troops moved into India and 17 died.
October 31, A former U.S. Marine from Fort Worth, Texas, announced in Moscow that he would never return to the United States. His name: Lee Harvey Oswald.
October 31, The USSR and Egypt signed contracts for building the Aswan Dam.
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Everyone met at Anderson's After the games |
November 1959
November 1, Patrice Lumumba was arrested in the Belgian Congo.
November 1, Football game Leesburg 6 Wildcats 12
November 2, Charles Van Doren admitted to a House subcommittee that he had the questions and answers in advance of his appearances on the NBC-TV game show "Twenty-One."
November 3, President Eisenhower laid the cornerstone for the CIA headquarters building in Langley, Va.
November 3, Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party won Israeli parliamentary election.
November 6, Football game Winter Garden 13 Wildcats 6
November 8, Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party won every chair.
November 11, The 1st episode of "Rocky & His Friends" aired on TV. Jay Ward, cartoonist, created the TV show "Rocky and His Friends," which featured Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose.
November 13, Football game Homecoming Seabreeze 6 Wildcats 13
The Queen and her Court
(From left to right) Jeanie Britt, Sigrid Bergstrom, Nancy Collins, Linda Prevatt, Judy Crawford, Judy Duckworth, Jeanie Jones, Joanne Horvath, Sandy Cash
Homecoming Parade on Park Avenue
Queen Judy Crawford
Latin Club won "Most Original"
Varsity Cheerleaders
Moonlight and Roses
November 15, In Germany the Bad Godesberg Program, designed to broaden support for the Social Democratic Party, was ratified at an SPD party convention. For the first time the SPD forswore all Marxist ideas.
November 16, The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music" opened on Broadway at Lunt Fontanne Theater, NYC, for 1443 performances.
November 17, William Shea proposed a NYC stadium with transparent roof. Named Shea Stadium.
November 18, "Ben-Hur," the Biblical-era movie spectacle starring Charlton Heston, had its world premiere in New York.
November 19, Ford Motor Co. announced it was halting production of the unpopular Edsel. Ford discontinued the Edsel after selling less than 110,000 cars.
November 20, The United Nations issued its "Declaration of the Rights of the Child."
November 20, Seven European nations (Austria, Britain, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland) signed the Stockholm Convention to form the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). The organization becoming operative on May 3 1960.
November 21, Jack Benny on violin and Richard Nixon on piano played their famed duet.
November 21, Max Baer, US boxer, died. In 2005 Jeremy Schaap authored “Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History.” His son Max Baer Junior would play "Jethro" on the TV show The Beverly Hillbillies.
November 23, The musical "Fiorello!," with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, opened on Broadway.
November 24, The new TV show Twilight Zone ran "The Time Element" about a bartender returning to Pearl Harbor Dec 6, 1941.
November 25, Last football game Apopka 12 Wildcats 13
November 27, Demonstrators marched in Tokyo to protest a defense treaty with the US.
November 30, Chubby Checker introduced "The Twist" on the "Dick Clark Saturday Night Show."
(SFC, 9/5/00, p.D3)
December 1959
December 1, Representatives of 12 countries signed the Antarctic Treaty in Washington DC setting aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve, free from military activity.
Swartout & Wolsey on field trip to the beach-
Only in sunny Florida in December
December 1, The 1st color photograph of Earth was received from outer space.
December 4, Peking pardoned Pu Yi, ex-emperor of China and of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. Aisingyoro Henry Puyi, the last emperor, Xuantong, was declared rehabilitated and released as "citizen" Puyi. He settled down as a gardener and wrote the book "From Emperor to Citizen."
December 8, First basketball Evans 44 Wildcats 62
December 9-to-December 14, President. Eisenhower visited India and met with President Prasad and Prime Minister Nehru. He addressed India’s Parliament and said: “ We who are free, and who prize our freedom above all other gifts of God and nature, must know each other better; trust each other more; support each other.”
December 11, Basketball game Colonial 38 Wildcats 68
December 15, Joseph Rogers (1924-2005) set the single-engine jet world record of 1,525 miles per hour in an F-106 Delta Dart over Edwards Air Force Base in southern California.
December 15, Basketball game Wildwood 59 Wildcats 83
December 18, Basketball game Bishop Moore 42 Wildcats 59
December 19, Walter Williams (117), officially recognized as the last survivor of the 4 million who fought in the Civil War, died in Houston. He served as forage master for a Confederate cavalry company. The last survivor of the Union Army was Albert Woolson. He died on August 2, 1956 at the age of 109.
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December 22, WPHS Christmas Formal Dance at the Bahia Temple
Miss Monica Diening (center), Queen of the WPHS annual Christmas formal dance, is shown with her court at the gala event for the City's high school set. With the Queen (right to left) Judy Duckworth, Judy Crawford, Ann Taylor, and Gee Gee Wattles.
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Coronation Smile
Porter crowns Queen Monica
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January 1960 Under Construction
January 1, French Cameroon gained independence.
January 2, Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
January 2, John Reynolds set the age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years.
January 4, Albert Camus (1913-1960), French writer, died in an automobile accident at age 46. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1957. His work included the play “Caligula” and a collection of journalistic pieces for the clandestine newspaper Combat (1944-1947).
January 4, Basketball game Bishop Moore 57 Winter Park 59
January 8, Basketball game Lakeview 46 Winter Park 54
January 9, The foundation stone for Egypt’s Aswan High Dam was laid.
January 14, The US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant.
January 15, Basketball game Sanford 46 Winter Park 65
January 19, Basketball game Apopka 31 Winter Park 51
January 22, The Johnburg coal mine caved in and 417 die.
January 22, Basketball game Leesburg 45 Winter Park 61
January 23, Bathysphere "Trieste" reached bottom of Pacific at 10,900 m. Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh descended for 20 minutes in the bathyscaph Trieste into the Mariana Trench, a 1,500 mile gash in the Earth’s crust east of the Philippines with a depth of 37,000 feet below sea level, nearly 7 miles.
January 24, The US stock market began a 10 month decline of 16%.
January 26, Basketball game Lakeview 50 Winter Park 49
January 29, Basketball game Boone 67 Winter Park 62
Jan-Aug, 160,000 refugees crossed from East Germany to West Germany following food shortages. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ordered a wall 103 miles long and 12 feet high to be built with guards and barbed wire to stop the flow of refugees.
Sing a long with the Princeton Trio
February 1960
February 1, Four black North Carolina A&T students staged a sit-in in a dime store in Greensboro, NC, lunch counter, where they'd been refused service, to begin the first of the historic 1960s sit-ins.
February 2, Basketball game Sanford 72 Winter Park 75
February 2, The U.S. Senate approved 24th Amendment calling for a ban on the poll tax.
February 5, Basketball game Apopka 54 Winter Park 68
February 6, Basketball game Wildwood 40 Winter Park 55
February 7, Old handwriting was found in at Qumran, Jordan, near the Dead Sea.
February 8, Congress opened hearings into payola.
February 10, Basketball game Leesburg 64 Winter Park 78
February 10, "Unsinkable Molly Brown" ended at Winter Garden, NYC, after 532 performances.
February 10, Adolph Coors, the beer brewer, was kidnapped in Golden, Colo.
February 11, Jack Paar walked off his TV show.
February 12, Bobby Clark (71), vaudevillian (World's funniest circus clown), died
February 12, Basketball game Evans 51 Winter Park 65
February 13, Ella Fitzgerald, live in concert, recorded "Mack the Knife, Ella in Berlin."
February 13, France exploded its first atomic bomb.
February 16, US nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip.
February 17, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in the Alabama bus boycott.
February 18, The Eighth Winter Olympic Games were formally opened in Squaw Valley, Calif., by Vice President Nixon.
February 19, Prince Andrew of Britain, Albert Christian Edward, Duke of York was born.
February 21, Havana placed all Cuban industry under direct control of the government.
February 23, Whites joined Negro students in a sit-in at a Winston-Salem, N.C. Woolworth store.
February 23, Basketball game Boone 67 Winter Park 72
February 23, Naruhito, crown prince of Japan, was born.
February 26, USA's David Jenkins won the Olympics Gold for men's figure skating.
February 26, Basketball game Colonial 42 Winter Park 76
February 26, Soviet premier Khrushchev voiced support for Indonesia.
February 27, The U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets, 3-2, at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, Calif. The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.
February 27, Adriano Olivetti (58), Italian engineer, manufacturer, died.
February 29, An 5.7 earthquake in Morocco's southwest Atlantic coast killed as many as 12,000. The town of Agadir was destroyed.
(AP, 2/25/04)
March 1960 Under Construction
March 1, 1,000 Black students prayed and sang the national anthem on the steps of the old Confederate Capitol in Montgomery, Ala.
March 3, The 9th largest snowfall in NYC history dropped14.5".
March 3, The French cargo ship "La Coubre," laden with Belgian weapons, exploded in Havana Harbor and killed 136 [101] people. The blast was blamed on US agents.
March 4, Lucille Ball filed for divorce from Desi Arnaz.
March 4, In Cuba Alberto Korda took a photo of Che Guevara at a rally where Castro blamed the US for the cargo ship disaster of the previous day. The photo later became famous as a poster of Che and symbol for the Cuban revolution.
March 5, Elvis Presley ended his 2-year hitch in US Army.
March 6, The Swiss granted women the right to vote in municipal elections.
March 9, In Seattle, Wa., Clyde Shields (39), was implanted with the 1st kidney dialysis shunt developed by Dr. Belding H. Scribner (d.2003) and engineer Wayne Quinton.
March 9, Track Meet at Cocoa
March 11, Pioneer 5 was launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus.
March 11, Track Meet at Boone
March 13, NFL's Chicago Cardinals moved to St Louis.
March 15, Baseball game at home against Colonial
March 16, Track Meet at Ocoee
March 17, Eisenhower formed anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA.
March 18, Baseball game at home against Evans
March 19, "Redhead" closed at 46th St Theater in NYC after 455 performances.
March 19, Track meet University City Relays at Gainesville
March 22, The 1st patent for lasers was granted to Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes. Schawlow and Townes developed their laser, light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, while working at Bell labs in 1958.
March 22, Baseball game at Lyman
March 23, Explorer 8 failed to reach Earth orbit.
March 24, US appeals court ruled the novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover" by D.H. Lawrence, to be not obscene.
March 24, Track meet at Bartow
March 25, The 1st guided missile was launched from a nuclear powered sub, the Halibut.
March 25, Baseball game at Bishop Moore
March 26, Iraq executed 30 after attack on President Kassem.
March 26, Track meet Florida Relays at Gainesville
March 29, Baseball game at Haines City
March 29, Track meet Winter Park, Edgewater and Boone at Boone
April 1960
April 1, The first weather satellite, TIROS 1, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
April 1, Baseball game at Leesburg
April 1, U Nu was elected premier of Burma.
April 1, Track meet Hillsborough Relays at Tampa
April 1, France exploded 2 atom bombs in the Sahara Desert.
April 2, Cuba bought oil from USSR.
April 4, In the 32nd Academy Awards "Ben-Hur," Charlton Heston and Simone Signoret won.
April 5, Baseball game at home against Wildwood
April 6, Track meet Leesburg, Bishop Moore, Kissimmee, and Sanford at Boone
April 8, Baseball game at home against Lakeview
April 9, Baseball game at home against Colonial
April 9 , Track meet Boone Invitational at Boone
April 10, The US Senate passed a landmark Civil Rights Bill.
April 12, Bill Veeck and Chicago’s Comiskey Park debuted the "Exploding Scoreboard."
April 12, Baseball game at home against Sanford
April 12, Track meet Winter Park, Edgewater and Bishop Moore at Glenridge
April 13, The first navigational satellite was launched into Earth's orbit.
April 14, "Bye Bye Birdie" opened at Martin Beck Theater in NYC for 607 performances.
April 14, Baseball game at Apopka
April 14, Track meet Winter Park, Boone and Lakeview at Boone
April 14, The 1st underwater launching of Polaris missile.
April 15, The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organized at Shaw University.
April 16, Baseball game at Boone
April 19, Baseball uniforms, in the major league, begin displaying player's names on their backs.
April 19, Baseball game at home against Lakeview
April 20, Track meet Sanford at Glenridge
April 21, Brazil inaugurated its new capital, Brasilia, transferring the seat of national government from Rio de Janeiro.
April 22, Baseball game at Leesburg
April 23, Baseball game at home against Bishop Moore
April 23, Track meet Orange County Meet at Bartow
April 25, First submerged circumnavigation of the Earth was completed by a Triton submarine.
April 26, Baseball game at Sanford
April 27, The 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine was launched at Tullibee.
April 27, Track meet O.B.C. Meet at Boone
April 27, South Korean pres Syngman Rhee resigned. The government of Syngman Rhee was toppled.
April 27, Togo, a UN Trust territory under French administration, gained independence. Sylvanus Olympio became the 1st chief of state.
April 29, Baseball game at home against Apopka
April 30, The US CIA began planning an invasion of Cuba that culminated in the 1961 Bay of Pigs disaster. The initial budget of $4.4 million grew to $46 million.
(SFEC, 2/22/98, p.A19)
May 1960
May 1, India's Bombay state split into Gujarat and Maharashtra states.
May 1, A Soviet missile shot down an American U-2 spy plane near Sverdlovsk with pilot Francis Gary Power. Powers was held in the Soviet Union for 21 months.
May 2, Pulitzer prize was awarded to Alan Drury (Advice & Consent).
May 2, House investigating committee looked into payola questions.
May 2, Caryl Chessman (39), convicted sex offender and best-selling author, the Red Light Bandit," was executed at San Quentin Prison in California. SFC crime reporter Bernice Davis (d.2002 at 97) later authored "Desperate and the Damned," an account of the Chessman case.
May 3, The musical "The Fantasticks" opened at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village. It featured the song "Try to Remember" by Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt and was 1st produced at Barnard College in 1959.
May 3, Baseball game at Wildwood
May 3, Austria became a founding member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), along with Britain, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland. The agreement took effect in 1994.
May 6, President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960.
May 6, Baseball game at home against Lyman
May 6, Britain's Princess Margaret married Anthony Armstrong-Jones, a commoner, at Westminster Abbey. They divorced in 1978.
May 6, Jacques Mornard (Ram¢n Mercader), Trotsky's murderer, was freed in Mexico.
May 7, Baseball game at home against Evans
May 7, Leonid Brezhnev became president of the Soviet Union.
May 7, Track meet District Meet at Bartow
May 9, The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the pill Enovid as safe for birth control use.
May 9, US sent a U-2 over USSR.
May 10, John F. Kennedy won the primary in West Virginia.
May 10, USS Nautilus completed the first circumnavigation of globe under water.
May 11, John D. Rockefeller Jr. (86), philanthropist, died.
May 13, Phillies lost their 3rd consecutive 1-0 game
May 14, Track meet State Meet at Gainesville
May 16, A Big Four summit conference in Paris collapsed on its opening day as the Soviet Union leveled spy charges against the United States in the wake of the U-2 incident.
May 17, Connecticut executed Joseph "Mad Dog" Taborsky in the electric chair for a series of murders and robberies.
May 18, Eileen Fulton began playing Lisa on the TV soap "As the World Turns" and continued for over 30 years.
May 19, Walt Disney's movie "Pollyanna" was released in movie theaters.
May 19, The Drifters recorded "Save the Last Dance For Me".
May 19, DJ Alan Freed was accused of bribery in radio payola scandal.
May 19, USAF Maj. Robert M White took the X-15 to 33,222 m.
May 22, Chile experienced a 9.5 earthquake (moment magnitude). A slow earthquake was detected just before the big one. It caused tsunamis in every coastal town between the 36th and 44th parallels with a death toll of some 1000 people.
May 23, A tidal wave, due to a 9.5 earthquake off Chile, hit Hilo, Hawaii. It killed 61 people, wiped out the beaches and destroyed 537 buildings. It went on to hit Japan.
May 23, Israel announced Israeli agents had captured former Nazi official SS Lt. Col. Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. Eichmann was tried in Israel, found guilty of crimes against humanity, and hanged in 1962.
May 26, UN Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge accused the Soviets of hiding a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States that they presented to the U.S. embassy in Moscow.
May 27, A military coup overthrew the democratic government of Turkey.
May 29, Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hit #1.
May 30, Boris Pasternak (b.1890), Russian poet, novelist (Dr Zhivago) and translator, died at age 70.
Graduation Week
May 27, 1960
Senior Class Day Program
Welcome............................Porter Spangler
Awards........................................OC Wilson
Class History ....................Sara Lee Person
Molly Darrah
Class Will ................................Ellen Delind
Sandy Pilhorn
Brenda Britt
May 29, 1960
Baccalaureate Service
Winter Park Presbyterian Church
May 31, 1960
Commencement
Mead Botanical Gardens
Salutatory....................Susan Libby
Valedictory....................James Lindsey
Reunions
21st Reunion
June, 1980
Under Construction
40th Reunion
November 3rd-5th, 2000
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