El Cerrito High School - El Camino Yearbook (El Cerrito, CA)

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Ten years from now, when you look back through this book, you will undoubtedly have forgotten what went on in the world this year. So that you can recall these events we are giving you a summary of the news for fall 1954 and spring 1955. About the time school opened, thoughts were turned to the World Series. More than a few people lost some money when the New York Giants swept the series with the Cleveland Indians. The name most often in the headlines was that of Senator McCarthy. The upper house was making history in its vote to censure the junior Senator from Wisconsin. Housewives, businessmen, and teenagers alike turned their attention from Ma Perkins, the fights, and the Hit Parade to hear the ques- tions and replies of the investigating committee and the man being inves- tigated. This was the year that the Mambo hit the nation. HPapa Loves Mambo, and Mambo Italiano could be heard coming from almost every jukebox. Anyone who was anyone had to learn this dance from south of the border. As 1954. was an election year, November was quite a hectic month. The Democrats gained control of both the House of Representatives and Senate, leaving the nation wondering about how Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower would get along. Here in California, Goodwin J. Knight defeated Richard Graves for the Governorship, and the state remained Republican. It was a bad New Year's Day for the Pacific Coast football teams. Ohio State played the University of Southern California in the Rose Bowl and romped over the coast team quite soundly. In the East West Shriner game the west was defeated by a very small margin. Gas mask salesmen did a booming business as the public of Los Angeles became increasingly conscious of the smog threat in their city. No one was sure what caused this eye-watering, odoriferous, nuisance to cover up the blue sky, but plenty of people had theories as to refineries, factories, and automobile exhausts. The threat of the United States being dragged into the war between Nationalist and Communist China was alarming. The nation's anxiety was augmented by the development of new atomic weapons, in particular the atomic submarine, The Nautilus. Fortunately, a little man with a shy voice and a perfectly straight face crept into the living rooms of thousands of Americans to relieve the tension. George Gobel's uyou can't hardly find none of them no morel' pretty much sums up how we felt about this year 1954-1955.

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VICE-PRINCIPALS Mr. John Palmer Miss Margaret Wolleson -new COUNSELORS 1 41' gsll DEANS Miss Madeline Whittlesey Mr. Wilbur Hosmer Mr. Edgar Gehrhardt Miss Edythe Crank Mr. Elmer Lagorio Miss Ann Mikesell ,..v x