| THE HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1960 |
| (Written in 1960, apparently by Ann Chaney, Jere Cravens, Donna Douslin, and Jean McNally) |
| The year of 1942 promised Iittle at its onset. The United States was at war; the whole world was at war. Men were fighting and dying on remote Pacific islands, on the burning African sands, and on the hills of France, Hitler was progressing, though slowly, in his fight to gain the world. The future looked bleak indeed. There was however, one ray of hope, one glimmering prospect of peace and prosperity. The future members of College High School's Class of 1960 were making their first appearances. |
| Because of the period in which we were born, we were given the name "war babies". This was an apt title for us during our grade school years. The fall of 1948 saw the beginning of a six-year battle between the Class of '60 and numerous battle-scarred grade school teachers. One of the highlights of the war was a surprise attack by one of our ablest leaders who hid under an unsuspecting teacher's desk and tickled her legs all hour. Truces were called once in a while, however, to provide time for pet and hobby shows, square dancing, school newspapers, and softball games. As the years passed, the class members began to look more to the future and to fulfilling the task to which destiny had assigned them, that of providing the world with peace and prosperity. |
| The greatest class ever to enter Central Junior High School was the Class of 1960. The year was 1954 and the month was September; and we were there, all of us together for the first time, entering the seventh grade. Christian Dior of Paris was reshaping the female architecture about that time (much to the men's dismay), and a new singer named Elvis Presley was busy dusting off his blue suede shoes. The school board recognized at once the caliber of this new class and presented it with two administrative officials, Mr. J. N.Lee and Mr. Lloyd Littlefield, who were charged with the responsibility of helping us develop our great potential. In 1955., the world watched two situations with suspense; one of these was the romance between England's Princess Margaret, and Peter Townsend, and the other was the victorious ascension of the Class of 1960 to the eighth grade. Those were good old days before staggered lunch hours had us all staggering, days when many a young romance bloomed in the auditorium with the noon movies. The predicaments in which the serial hero found himself were not the only tight squeezes to be seen! Davy Crockett was making life miserable for Roy Rogers and for the raccoons of the country the spring that Central's last tacky day was held. Never again could we be legally tacky in school! |
| The world as a whole will always remember the fall of 1956 as a time of sorrow and strife, a period of grave tension and anxiety of war. 1956 will be remembered by the world as the time of the Hungarian revolution and the Suez Invasion, the Polish revolt and the death of the last veteran of the Civil War. |
| But here again the Class of 1960 provided for a dark, bleak world another ray of hope, showing that peace could exist in a troubled time; the occasion? Their glorious reign as the Freshman Class of Central Junior High School. Following the lead of the United States, we began by selecting good leadership, and as the U. S. returned Eisenhower to the White House, the Class of 1960 elected Grant Fair to save as student Body President. Continuing the all-out effort to cheer up the dismal world, a brilliant selection of members of the class presented "The Boarding House Reach", a play to be long remembered in the annals of high school drama. The play so cheered up the farmers of the time that they produced record crops, which unfortunately worsened the surplus situation. This, however, was remedied by the installation of a brand new cafeteria at Central, a facility which made possible the consumption of great quantities of surplus food, as the class of 1960, under the devoted leadership of Fannie Spencer, developed a new mathematical formula for the differentiation between sheep and goats. |
| Even in time of peace, we are told, it is well to be prepared for the unexpected. With this maxim in mind, in order to prepare itself for any effort for national defense, the Class of 1960 undertook mass readings on the art of war, with special concentration in the field of manually operated missiles and hand-to-hand combat, using as its textbook Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. After this there was an interlude of reading from the works of poet, after which the Class of 1960 bade the halls of Central High School adieu, and departed in a blaze of glory for the more challenging task of taking over College High. |
| Almost immediately after the class had become settled in the routine of its new collective home, the world was shocked by the launching of the first Russian satellite, Sputnik, into its orbit around the earth. The challenge was answered quickly and efficiently by the ever-alert and patriotic members of the class, who responded to the call by engaging the vital moonwatch duty, some in one way- some in another. In order to prepare the student body and the community for the worst, several members of the class in cooperation with members of two other classes produced "You Can'tTake It With You". |