This is Gerry's grade 4 class. Now what is a grade 4 photograph doing in a high school site? The connection is the same one as that grade 3 photo. The challenge is the same, too. Scroll the key below off the screen and then see how many of these kids' bright, shining little faces you can identify!
Back (l-r): Ian Wicket, Ed Bell, Bob Clements, Bob Hale, Sandy Campbell, Bob Thompson, Alan McGill, Gerry Hagberg, Don Squires, Mike Weston, Victor Hornsby, Glen Smith
2nd row: Vaughan Mann, Bob McLaren, Gillian, Pam May, Donna Burrows, Pat Morrison, Noreen(?), Sharon Henderson, Carol, Malcolm
3rd row: Rick Curtis, (?), Betty, (?), Linda Moretti, (?), Pat, Caro, Lundell, Bonnie Craig, Erin, Jeff Yuen
Front: Dave Shore, Alan Blackwell, (?), Jane Hassen, Doug Shepherd, Lawrie Harris, Harry Dawson
Teacher: Mr. Cavin
Gerry adds:
A few unknowns and some first names only.
Have a close look at the girl Gillian in the 2nd row. Could she be Jill
Wolton? I'm pretty sure of the spelling...
It's 1955. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof wins the Pulitzer for drama.
[Click here for audio ambience from 1955!]
The cultural rebellion that we will shortly join has begun, Bill Haley is belting out Rock around The Clock to the utter disgust of our parents who can't understand what was wrong with Glenn Miller. Sixteen Tons, The Yellow Rose of Texas and Love Is A Many Splendored Thing are on the broadcast receivers.
This year and next we will enter the theatres to see 20,000 Leagues under The Sea, Strategic Air Command and To Hell and Back.
Germany, seen in Europe and North America as the author of the most hideous war yet and perpetrator of atrocities not ten years before, suddenly is no longer occupied. Troops remain in Germany, however. This October they are declared N.A.T.O. forces. Not only that but West Germany is voted a member of N.A.T.O.
In a few years, Des Plaines in Illinois would become the location of the Xerox training school. In the 'seventies your webmaster would live for many weeks in the "Flying Carpet Motel" nearly under an approach path to O'Hare and commute to the school in Des Plaines each day. In addition to hosting your webmaster, it now it turns out that Des Plaines enjoys another distinction of equal significance: it was in Des Plaines in this year of 1955 that one Ray Kroc began operating a hamburger stand, "McDonald's Restaurant".
