Rice High School - Edmundian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Sohool Wiso and World Wiso Here is your 1958 EDMUNDIAN. In it we have tried to recreate with words and pictures the life of the school. But not only the school shapes the course of our lives, World events and local happenings play a big part as well. Let's look at some of the l957-58 headlines. While school opened quietly at Rice where integration is as logical as our Catholic faith, in the South a legal Civil War was fought between thinking men and those who had sealed their minds with an unreasoning wall of preiudice. The City of Little Rock and Arkansas' Gover- nor Faubus were household words for a few weeks until news from Moscow gave the whole world something to think and pray about. Just as the U. S., including almost 5OO Ricemen, were recovering from the Asiatic Flu, Russian dictator Khrush- chev announced that the Soviets had launched Sputnik I, and, before we could recover from the initial shock, Sputnik Il, with its half ton of weight and its pathetic canine passenger, circled the globe at l8,000 miles per hour. Perhaps the Russians unwittingly did the free world a service. News of the satellites put an abrupt end to the Era of Complacency. At Paris, ailing President Eisenhower met with NATO leaders Macmillan of England, Adenauer of Germany, and Gaillard of France to discuss world problems. ln Rome, Pope Pius XII described the situation as impos- sible and called all peoples to their knees to pray to Him who alone is capable of the impossible. 1958 marked the lOOth anniversary of the Blessed Mother's appearance at Lourdes. Prayers to the Mother of Peace re-echoed throughout the world. In the U. S. another boon year was marred slightly by labor unrest and union corruption. The A.F.L.-C.l.O. cleaned house by expelling the powerful teamsters union and lesser groups. In New York the subway strike created transit havoc and the dreaded Mafia dueled for power after the Anastasia killing. Mayor Wagner was re-elected and the City continued its ceaseless cleanup of corruption, crime, schools and just plain litter. In medicine, the Salk vaccine was iniected into all who wished it. In music, Rice boys danced to the tunes of Elvis Presley, Perry Como and Pat Boone singing such tunes as Jailhouse Rock , My Special Angel , and Could This Be Magic . TV went wild over Westerns like Gunsmoke , Maverick , and Have Gun, Will Travel . My Fair Lady was still on Broadway and The Ten Commandments was still the top picture. ln sports, the Braves took the World Series from the mighty Yanks and New York lost the Dodgers and Giants to California. Floyd Patterson kept his boxing title and the Boston Celtics were rated the best basketball team in history. Notre Dame beat Oklahoma and Navy defeated Army in the year's biggest football games. Of course, there was other news. More happens each minute to make the old news history. These were what we thought important. At Rice, things happened pretty much as you see and read on these pages. IIIUE IIIGII Illlllll 74 Wost 124th Strool New York 27, llow York

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