Sophomore

<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> <A HREF="freshman.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Freshman">Freshman</A>   |   <B>Sophomore</B>   |   <A HREF="junior.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Junior">Junior</A>   |   <A HREF="senior.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Senior">Senior</A></div> <div> <B><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">  </SCRIPT> </B></div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="611" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 1440 ><NOBR><div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="568" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 181 WIDTH="554"><div> <I><B>1960 - Sophomores</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="soph_1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Soph 1">The Sophomore Picture Page</A><A HREF="soph_1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Soph 1"> </A></div> <div> No More Being A Freshman! That wasn't too bad. Boy, I'll sure miss some of those Seniors, they were really pretty nice to me, others I'll be glad to see them go. I can't wait to impress the upcoming freshmen</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 1218 WIDTH="104"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1218" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="104" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="358"><div> <B>1960 - U.S. Statistics</B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >President: </FONT><A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760618.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760618.h">Dwight D. Eisenhower</A> </div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >Vice President: </FONT><A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760621.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760621.h">Richard M. Nixon</A> </div> <div> Population: 180,671,158 </div> <div> Life expectancy: 69.7 years </div> <div> Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 18.9 </div> <div> Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 17.3 </div> <div> Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 4.7 </div> <div> US GDP (1998 dollars): $526.6 billion </div> <div> Federal spending: $92.19 billion </div> <div> Federal debt: $290.5 billion </div> <div> Consumer Price Index: 29.6 </div> <div> Unemployment: 5.5% </div> <div> Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.04 </div> <bR> <div> Seventy million people watch the presidential debate between Sen. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760619.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760619.h">John F. Kennedy</A></FONT> and Vice President <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760621.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760621.h">Richard Nixon. </A></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0154709.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0154709.">John Coltrane</A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > forms his own quartet and becomes the voice of jazz's New Wave movement. </FONT></div> <div> Ninety percent of U.S. homes have a television set.</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0154781.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0154781.">Alfred Hitchcock's</A></FONT> Psycho terrifies movie-goers and becomes one of the year's most successful films, as well as one of the most memorable psychological thrillers. </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Movies </div> <div> Psycho, The Apartment, The Sundowners, Sons and Lovers </div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >The first working</FONT> <A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0828931.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08289">laser</A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > is built by T. H. Maiman (US). </FONT></div> <div> Echo I, the first <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#00FF00" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0813065.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08130">communications satellite</A></FONT>, is launched. </div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" >NASA launches Tiros I, the first</FONT> <A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0851707.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08517">weather satellite</A>.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > Background:</FONT> <A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001346.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001346.h">Space Exploration </A></div> <bR> <div> Nobel Prizes in Science </div> <div> Chemistry:<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" > Willard F. Libby (US), for atomic time clock to measure age of objects by measuring their radioactivity </FONT></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> DEATHS </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0837810.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A08">Boris Pasternak </A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0839869.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A08">Emily Post </A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0848677.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A08">Lawrence Tibbett</A></div> <bR> <div> Record of the Year: "Mack the Knife" </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Bobby Darin </div> <div> Album of the Year: Come Dance With Me</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  Frank Sinatra (Capitol) </div> <div> Song of the Year: "The Battle of New Orleans"</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  Jimmy Driftwood, songwriter </div> <bR> <div> Miss America: Lynda Lee Mead (MS)</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="90"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1218" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="90" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <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> </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>