Class of 1961

Reunion Info

Florance (Cotterman) Borad sent an Email indicating the Class of 1961 will be celebrating their 45th reunion sometime during the summer or fall of 2006. More details as I get them.

Thanks to _________ for scanning the images
Thanks to David Rumbaugh providing the class info and volunteering to scan images.

Class Officers

President: Wes Orr
Vice President: Ron Nicholson
Secretary: Peggy Snider
Treasurer: Ralph Sompres

Counselor: Mr. James Poe

Class Song: ""

Class Colors: M

Class Motto:

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Time Capsule

• Yuri Gagarin the first man in space.

• A coup, backed by the CIA and President John F Kennedy, fails at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba.

• Russia starts building the Berlin Wall.

• Bob Dylan plays his first gig, in New York.

• World Wildlife Fund founded.

• Weight Watchers founded by 97kg (214 lb) Jean Nidetch.

Minimum wage raised to $1.15 an hour

President Kennedy commits the U.S. to "Landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth" by the end of the decade.

9 months after a four-hour black out in New York City, record birth rates are recorded

Popular Songs Included:

• "Pony Time " - Chubby Checker

• "Surrender" - Elvis Presley

• "Hit the Road Jack" - Ray Charles

What Prices Were Like

Academy Award for Best Picture: "West Side Story"

Who are these folks, and what are they doing?

Any idea who these guys are?

Senior Pictures

Special Thanks to
David Rumbaugh
for scanning the
Class of 1961
Senior Pictures

If you send them along, we'll include 12 to 18 pictures from each reunion - one reunion to a page. If your class has a reunion every five years for 20 years, you'd have four pages of pictures.

Reunion Recap

If someone cares to provide the info and photos, we'll also do a "reunion recap" page for each reunion, with:

• Newsletter type article about reunion?
• Name & Pictures of Most Changed?
• Name & Pictures of Least Changes?
• Other categories?
• What else?