Augusta College - White Columns Yearbook (Augusta, GA)

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fe 1963 was the year that we ' ll never see again. In those days — people were wearing simpler clothes, shorter hair, and had quicker smiles. Men wore white tee-shirts, sat on the front porch steps and smoked Winston cigarettes. A car was a tank filled with twenty five cent gasoline. A Fuel Crisis was a fiat wallet. Women believed that marriage was an ambition, not an inhibition of their lives. Ten dollars bought a lot of groceries. Viet Nam (remember? Indo-China), and the Draft was an inconvenience, not a flight. Living was easy in 1963-64. Music was finger popping, rolled up levis. and My Baby Just Left Me. And couples slow danced cheek to cheek, and twisted the night away with Chubby. Mao had erected the great wall of silence. Rus- sians were waving their Nukes. Kids wondered if they would live to ' 68. Camelot was the Celtic King and his fine queen in Washington D.C. Living was easy in 1963, until the King died on a Texas street, November 22, 1963: and few more kings died the same way, a bullet in the brain. A Mr. Speck was popular with the Nurses. And easy living was blown away by the storm of change. Life got rock hard and this Generation screamed out in pain over the Radio, and we all knew that it would never be the same. !S Ten Years After