Here's Gerry's grade 11 class, div. 9.
[Click here to read along to the audio of 1961!]
On September the 8th, the Trans Canada Highway had been "completed". Never mind that most of it was not paved and that, in Newfoundland, the grade work had not been finished. John George Diefenbaker finished, by hand, the last bit of paving in the Rogers Pass and declared the Trans Canada Highway finished. Watch him here and listen, too, to another voice from our past, that of Ted Reynolds.
These kids were about to be exposed to the Cuban missile crisis. The world held its breath in October of 1962. As old Arthur said: The old order changeth and yieldeth place to new... Douglas Edwards disappeared and Walter Cronkite began two decades as the news anchor the continent trusted.
Left to right, back to front:
Brian Larkey, Nick Marsden, Eric Gelling, Ken Lane, Gerry Hagberg, Les Litwin, Doug Toole, G. Handford, Brian Smith, Brooke George, Ken Hart
Jim Pomeroy, Rick Bowering, Bev Hynds, Linda Brown, Veronica Harrison, Bev Taylor, Cherry Osborne, Diane Boughey, Hilary Ford, Russ Tyrrell, Derek Melville
Dave Alton, Donna Burrows, Shirley Naylor, Cheryl Borris, Alison Mainguy, Kathy Curran, Caroline Oliver, Jane Hassen, Stephanie Sam, Len McNeely
