| Here are some of the events occurring during during our final year at WHS...please feel free to send us items you remember or would like to share... |
"Our Senior Year...1954-1955"
| Personal... | Most of us celebrate our 17th birthday... | |
| Community... | Watertown celebrates its 75th birthday... | |
| Music... | Elvis, a year out of high school, released his first hit record "That’s All Right"... | |
| Sports... | Track...Roger Bannister breaks the 4 minute mile barrier... | |
| NBA...Minneapolis Lakers, win the NBA Championship (5th in last six years) | ||
| MLB... NY Giants sweep World Series (4-0) over Cleveland Indians | ||
| Triva... | World Series is broadcast on TV in color for the first time... | |
| Mpls. Lakers & NY Giants both relocate to California within 5 years | ||
| First issue of “Sports Illustrated” is published. | ||
| Film & TV... | Marlon Brando earns an "Oscar" for his role in "On The Waterfront"... | |
| Top three TV shows: "I Love Lucy"; "Jackie Gleason"; Dragnet" | ||
| MissAmerica competition, (Atlantic City, N.J.), is televised for the first time. | ||
| Marilyn Monroe marries baseball star Joe DiMaggio | ||
| Medicine... | Dr. Jonas Salk's new polio vaccine begins nationwide use... | |
| Harvard Medical School completes the first kidney transplant operation | ||
| Education... | U.S. Congress authorizes the establishment of the U.S. Air Force Academy | |
| Arts... | Ernest Hemingway is awarded the The Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Law... | Supreme Court rules against racial segregation in public schools... | |
| Technology... | Atomic Energy Commission plans first atomic power plant for Pittsburgh, PA. | |
| U.S.detonates the world’s first hydrogen bomb on the Marshall Islands. | ||
| First atomic-powered submarine, the "Nautilus", is launched from New London, CT | ||
| Largest warship ever built; "USS Forrestal" is launched from Newport News, VA. | ||
| Boeing unveils the "707" hearlding the start of the jet age in commerical aviation | ||
| USA & Russia introduce first supersonic jet fighters, the F-109 & MIG–19 | ||
| Economy... | Avg. Income is $3,960, Gas is 21˘/gallon and a new Ford T-bird is less than $3,000. | |
| Population... | World's population is 2.7 billion. After taking thousands of years ro reach a billion in 19th century, it has more than doubled, to over 6 billion, since we graduated! | |
Images from the 50's
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