Here's Gerry's grade 8 class, div. 10, of Oak Bay Junior High School.
The boys and girls in that far, far off year of 1959.
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Left to right, back to front:
Bob Worth Ken Lane, Shirley Naylor, Berk Maddaford, Donna Walton, Sandra Schutz, Cheryl Borris, Gerry Hagberg, Janet Rayner, Eric Gelling,Brian Unwin
Leanne Elliot, Barbara Trenholme, Bob Hall, Veronica Harrison, Liz Simpson-Baikie, Derek Hamlet, Jane Hassen, Bev Taylor
Ian Wickett, Judy Campbell, Kathy Curran, Gail Deeks, Donna Bishop, Hilary Ford, Diane Boughey, Karen Bradford, Alison Mainguy, Robin BrysonRichard Cuzner
George Dufour, Ted Siefred, Pat Smith, Roger Pinfield, Bob Moysey, John Lane, Ken Hart, Don Panton
1959. Batista decamps in a common revolution Dr. Castro becomes head of state. We geeks delighted in the flights of the X-15 to the edge of space and at speeds to Mach 6.
Khruschev and Nixon become animated at a U.S. exhibition in Moscow labelled the "Kitchen Debate". The St.Lawrence Seaway opens the Great Lakes to ocean going vessels.
We listened to Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Come Softly to Me, The Happy Organ, The Battle of New Orleans and Lonely Boy. In the theatres we saw Auntie Mame, Shaggy Dog and North by North West. How long ago was that? Well, if memory serves, the way people travelled in the film North by North West was on the crack varnish, not by aircraft.
The big fiction books were Exodus, Doctor Zhivago, Hawaii, Lady Chatterly's Lover, The Ugly American and Lolita. Big non fiction titles were The Status Seekers, Elements of Style (Strunk and White)
On the tube: Gunsmoke, Have Gun Will Travel, The Danny Thomas Show, The Red Skelton Show, Father Knows Best, 77 Sunset Strip and Perry Mason.
