Robbinsdale High School - Robin Yearbook (Robbinsdale, MN)

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As the 1961 -62 school year unfolded at the HOME OF THE ROBINS, President Kennedy com-pleted his first year as the head of a PROGRESS-ING AMERICA. Progress in space was highlighted by a dramatic achievement when, on February 29, ---v -c2 w-ct? o'- '- • «=-'-■ astronaut John Herschel Glenn successfully orbited the earth three times at a speed of 17,540 mph. in his Friendship 7 space capsule— jnajor prestige victory. Another U. S. pilot of a different nature, U-2 jspy, appis Gary Powers released from a Russian prison irT Ja eF fSrttio iet spy, Rudolf Abel. United Nations delegates stared with disbelief '■ ascJ i- at the empty :ffa?r of Seci%fa -Ger af ag hfam- marskjolcl, a peace-making mission to the Congo's revolution- p€f- torn province of Katanga. Communism also re- Tho emblem of the United Nations officers. f mained on the move in 1962 as forces continued to work their way into Laos and East-Germans built a c Three foreign exchange students and a. student from of their countries at an all-school V-Toens meeting. 2

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 6 , ZZ - r7T s .-. ’62 r introduction.............2 academics................6 student services........94 student activities. . . .116 performing arts........158 athletics..............176 index..................210 Robbinsdale Senior High School 3730 North Toledo Avenue Robbinsdale, Minnesota

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A Communist soldier jumps the barrier to freedom. vide troRin Sam Rayburn brick wall in Berlin to more completely separate the , ■ I i - i- • divided city. The tree world made a strategic gain when the Organization of American States expelled Communist-infested Cuba from the alliance at its I s ; y' St C c meeting in Punta del Este, Uruguay. As the United States worked tirelessly toward improving international relations, RHS benefited greatly by the acquaintances of several students from foreign countries who attended ROBBINS- ■j DALE this year. These teenagers spoke at club meetings and participated in group discussions. Americans from all walks of life mourned the death of Sam Rayburn who had been speaker of the House for seventeen years. Politically, the U. S. viewed with alarm the resurgence of ultraconservative anti-Com-munist groups, the most boisterous of which, the John Birch Society, busily accused everyone from former presidents to street cleaners of munists. «V 1 yZ c 3