Long Ago

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=169 style=" border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC;" BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="017a0ad1dyxtip.jpg"> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="698" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 111 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="00d69690.jpg" border=0 width="105" height="105" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER><NOBR><div> Waxahachie Independant School District    <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >               Waxahachie, Texas</FONT></div> <div> <B>Waxahachie High School Alumni 1962</B></div> <div> <B>WHS Seniors '62</B></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=268 BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="01f9b9c3.jpg"> <div> <B>Long Ago</B></div> <div> <B><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">  </SCRIPT> </B></div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="15" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="757" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 2060 WIDTH="725"><div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="5" CELLSPACING="5" WIDTH="717" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#000000 HEIGHT= 23 WIDTH="160"><div> <A HREF="freshman.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Freshman"><B>Freshman Year</B></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#000000><NOBR><div> <A HREF="sophomore.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sophomore"><B>Sophomore Year</B></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#000000 WIDTH="160"><div> <A HREF="junior.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Junior"><B>Junior Year</B></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#000000 WIDTH="160"><div> <A HREF="senior.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Senior"><B>Senior Year</B></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="bhs.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="BHS"><B>Those </B></A><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="bhs.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="BHS"><B>BHS</B></A></FONT><A HREF="bhs.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="BHS"><B> (Before High School) Classes</B></A></div> <div> <B>Preparing Us For The Moment</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>School Days School Daze.......</B></I></div> <div> Remember when you you just couldn't wait to grow up and be an adult? You'd get a job, get married, live in your own house, have a new car and at last you'd have it made and you could forget all those worries you had in school. Want to take a look back at the things that were important to us then and caused all those worries we had to shoulder?</div> <div> The Beginnings.... 1949</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="115e7510.jpg" border=0 width="231" height="81" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>The Beginnings.... 1949</B></div> <bR> <div> Let's begin by looking at the world of 1950. Most of us were 6 years old and for most this was the first year of schooling. Kindergarten was available and optional, but only a handful of the class was fortunate enough to go, so this is the first  year for most of us. It's also the beginning of a great era in American history - The 50's !!!! It seems like only yesterday, yet so very long ago..............</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="12" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="603" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 35 WIDTH="553"><div> <B>1950 - U.S. Statistics</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 66 ><NOBR><div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>President:</B></FONT><B> </B><A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760617.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760617.h">Harry S Truman</A></div> <div> <B>Population: 152,271,417</B></div> <div> <B>Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 5.3</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <B>Vice President: </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0806214.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A08">Alben W. Barkley</A></FONT></div> <div> <B>Life expectancy: 68.2 years</B></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 BGCOLOR=#000000 HEIGHT= 44 ><NOBR><div> Truman orders development of <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0824719.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0">hydrogen bomb</A></FONT> (Jan. 31).</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0194022.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0194022.h">Assassination attempt</A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > on President Truman by Puerto Rican nationalists (Nov. 1).</FONT></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 87 ><NOBR><div> Era of <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0830834.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A08">McCarthyism</A></FONT> Begins</div> <div> Federal spending: $42.56 billion</div> <div> Consumer Price Index: 24.1</div> <div> Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="276"><div> US GDP (1998 dollars): $294.6 billion</div> <div> Federal debt: $256.9 billion</div> <div> Unemployment: 5.9%</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 BGCOLOR=#000000 HEIGHT= 1108 WIDTH="553"><div> <B>Sports:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>World Series:  NY Yankees d. Philadelphia Phillies (4-0)</B></div> <div> <B>NBA Championship:   Minneapolis Lakers d. Syracuse (4-2)</B></div> <div> <B>Stanley Cup:   Detroit d. NY Rangers (4-3)</B></div> <div> <B>Wimbledon -Women:  Louise Brough d. M. duPont (6-1 3-6 6-1)</B></div> <div> <B>                          Men: Budge Patty d. F. Sedgman (6-1 8-10 6-2 6-3)</B></div> <div> <B>Kentucky Derby Champion:  Middleground</B></div> <div> <B>NCAA Basketball Championship:   CCNY d. Bradley (71-68)</B></div> <div> <B>NCAA Football Champions:  Oklahoma (10-1-0)</B></div> <div> <B>World Cup Uruguay d. Brazil (2-1)</B></div> <div> <B>Entertainment:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Saturday morning children's programming begins.</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ipd/A0586621.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ipd/A0586621.h"><B>Phonevision</B></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>, the first pay-per-view service, becomes available.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Broadway classic Guys and Dolls debuts at the 46th Street Theatre and becomes an instant hit. The show ran for three years and became one of the </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0153677.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0153677."><B>Great White Way's</B></A></FONT><B> longest-running shows, with 1,200 performances.</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0154915.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0154915."><B>Charles Schulz</B></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B> introduces the Peanuts comic strip.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Movies:</B></div> <div> <B> Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, Born Yesterday, The Third Man</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Books:</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0808580.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A08"><B>Paul Bowles</B></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>, The Delicate Prey</B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0808655.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A08"><B>Ray Bradbury</B></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>, The Martian Chronicles</B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0823311.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A08"><B>Ernest Hemingway</B></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>, Across the River and Into the Trees</B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0830837.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A08"><B>Mary McCarthy</B></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>, Cast a Cold Eye</B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0845347.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A08"><B>Isaac Bashevis Singer</B></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>, The Family Moskat</B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0846706.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A08"><B>Wallace Stevens</B></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>, The Auroras of Autumn</B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0849420.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A08"><B>Lionel Trilling</B></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>, The Liberal Imagination</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Science:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Col. David C. Schilling (USAF) makes the first nonstop transatlantic jet flight in 10 hours and 1 minute (Sept. 22).</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The first Xerox machine is produced.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The first self-service elevator is installed by Otis Elevator in Dallas.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Richard Lawler (US) performs the first successful kidney transplant at Loyola University.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Deaths</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0826542.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A08"><B>Al Jolson</B></A><B>        </B><A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0836949.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A08"><B>George Orwell</B></A><B>           </B><A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0844752.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A08"><B>George Bernard Shaw</B></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> Questions, Comments, Suggestions or to Report a Broken Link .......<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>Contact: </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="mailto: webmaster@whs62.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto: webmaster@whs62.net">webmaster@whs62.net</A></FONT></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></I></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=42 style=" border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC;" BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="0182a2f1dyxtip.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="http://whs62.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://whs62.net">Home</A>     <A HREF="http://whs62.net/Roll" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://whs62.net/Roll">Roll Call</A>    <A HREF="http://whs62.net/In_Memory" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://whs62.net/In_Memory">In Memory</A>   <A HREF="http://whs62.net/Long_Ago" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://whs62.net/Long_Ago">Long Ago</A>    <A HREF="http://www.whs62.net/Our_50s/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.whs62.net/Our_50s/">Our 50's</A><A HREF="http://www.whs62.net/Our_50s/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.whs62.net/Our_50s/"> </A>  <A HREF="http://whs62.net/Reunions" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://whs62.net/Reunions">Reunions</A>   <A HREF="http://whs62.net/Today" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://whs62.net/Today">Today</A>    <A HREF="http://whs62.net/Contacts" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://whs62.net/Contacts">Contacts</A>    <A HREF="http://whs62.net/Links" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://whs62.net/Links">Links</A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>