Sanford H Calhoun High School - Pacer Yearbook (Merrick, NY)

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Graduated . program to save thousands of lives. These were the times of the quiz-show scandals, of the payola scandals, and the obvious cleaning-up of government malpractices by Senate and House in- vestigating committees, as election time rolled around the corner. Princess Margaret settled down with her Anthony Armstrong-Jones, and Queen Elizabeth had a baby boy. Two planets were put into orbit by the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Hit shows were Take Me Along, Fiorello, Tenth Man, Miracle Worker, along with the old standbys My Fair Lady, and Music Man. It was the heyday of Bobby Darin and the Kingston Trio, Elvis was discharged. As the world moved toward the '6O,s, the first graduating class of Calhoun completed its final year of high school. They have much to remember and much to look forward to - for they are entering a new way of life and a new decade, M2256 ff ' These were the hit shows. L Pl-aynndn AYBILL :aaa xf I v tytt V ,,,.i Fig? , , March saw 23 inches of if f,f- ? V, 'f,'V,, snow, inundating us and may ,gma 4 - ..Q w f- ,yu si- 1' VVf X V closing the school. y g . g 1, , , iwgW .i ' ,,,,.,,.., ,Q ,,,, :f , 'E?'?2+WWM .- iiikiiitikf . i' 'lr 'k ir 'lr i' if i' 'k ir if uk 'k if ir 'Ir i' i' 'k 'lr it 'ir ir 'k 'k 'k i' 'A' y 'A' 'k 'lr ir 'k 'k 'A' if 'A' 'A' if The addition of Alaska and Hawaii gave the flag 50 stars. 14-7

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Cuban Premier Fidel Castro in New York. tr Premier Khrushchev walking through a cornfield on the Coon Rapids farm of Roswell Garst. The Year We This was the year of the trips. In the wake of Humphrey, Harriman, and Nixon, who had made news-making visits to Russia last year, followed Ei- senhower through Latin America, Rus- sia, and Asia. Khrushchev came here, as did Castro, Adenauer, and Ben Gur- ion. Adlai Stevenson went through Latin America while both DeGaulle and Macmillan paid visits to the Afri- can trouble spots. Nasser made one of his pilgrimages to Moscow, and Queen Elizabeth had a chat with President Eisenhower as they opened the St. Law- rence Seaway. Prince Philip is due here shortly to open the British exhibition in the Coliseum. While sit-down strikes were being held at chain store counters in both the North and the South, while the longest steel strike in our country's history was being fought, while Castro was stirring anti-U.S. sentiment in Cuba, and the Senate was Hlibustering over a new civil rights bill, a new perfected polio vaccine was going through its testing

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yiiy sun sets upon the shelter of Calhoun than when The school has been a preparation tion inyfacing life and its problems educatga ' 'f in understanding the an ' 'i 1 ' phies of humanity fl ' uni t have learned to flow beiff y cting his and his rights, at the alms, was our educatlons, som th world at large, to live education IS' a 8 A apart of life. We have spent three l ever we may bein the future, we shall look backmyg this gia. We may only go to high school but its effects are with 'us forever. 'ins-. . was stimulatingg it was ,MW ,v C111 for we may do wlth nostal once in an M , ,. ' ' :five-Msr,..,1 W me , , - f K ' vw ,,a,w9.s V W , , ilshoto bv Ewing'Gal1oway 1 , J,