Class of 1959 55 Th Reunion Yearbook
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Class of 1959 th 55 Reunion BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY 55th Reunion Special Thanks On behalf of the Offi ce of Development and Alumni Relations, we would like to thank the members of the Class of 1959 Reunion Committee Michael Fisher, Co-chair Amy Medine Stein, Co-chair Rosalind Fuchsberg Kaufman, Yearbook Coordinator I. Bruce Gordon, Yearbook Coordinator Michael I. Rosen, Class Gathering Coordinator Marilyn Goretsky Becker Joan Roistacher Blitman Judith Yohay Glaser Sally Marshall Glickman Arlene Levine Goldsmith Judith Bograd Gordon Susan Dundy Kossowsky Fern Gelford Lowenfels Barbara Esner Roos Class of 1959 Timeline World News Pop Culture Winter Olympics are held in Academy Award, Best Picture: Marty Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy Elvis Presley enters the US music charts for fi rst Summer Olympics are held in time with “Heartbreak Hotel” Melbourne, Australia Black-and-white portable TV sets hit the market Suez Crisis caused by the My Fair Lady opens on Broadway Egyptian Nationalization of the Suez Canal Th e Wizard of Oz has its fi rst airing on TV Prince Ranier of Monaco Videocassette recorder is invented marries Grace Kelly Books John Barth - Th e Floating Opera US News Kay Th ompson - Eloise Alabama bus segregation laws declared illegal by US Supreme Court James Baldwin - Giovanni’s Room Autherine Lucy, the fi rst black student Allen Ginsburg - Howl at the University of Alabama, is suspended after riots Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 signed into law for the construction of 41,000 miles of interstate highways over a 20-year period Movies Guys and Dolls Th e King and I Around the World in Eighty Days Economy Gallon of gas: 22 cents Average cost of a new car: $2,050 Ground coff ee (per lb.): 85 cents First-class stamp: 3 cents Died this Year Connie Mack Tommy Dorsey 1956 Jackson Pollock World News Pop Culture Soviet Union launches the fi rst Academy Award, Best Picture: Around the World space satellite Sputnik 1 in 80 Days Soviet Union launches Sputnik Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story debuts on 2. On board is the fi rst animal Broadway and brings violence to the stage to enter space - a dog named American Bandstand makes its network debut Laika on ABC Asian Flu pandemic claims over Leave It to Beaver premieres on CBS 150,000 lives world wide US News Peak of the Baby Boomer years Martin Luther King Jr. leads nationwide resistance to racial segregation and Books discrimination in US Dr. Seuss – Here and Now Toyota starts selling cars in the US Ian Fleming – From Russia with Love Th e “Little Rock Nine” integrate Jack Kerouac – On the Road Arkansas high school. Eisenhower sends troops to quell a mob and Denise Levertov – Th e Cat in the Hat protect the students after Governor Orval Faubus defi es federal order Portable Radar Devices used to enforce speed limits Movies Th e Ten Commandments Jailhouse Rock by Elvis Presley Economy Th e Bridge on the River Kwai A dozen eggs: 28 cents Average monthly rent: $90 HI FI Portable Record Player: $79.95 Died this Year Humphrey Bogart Richard E. Byrd Joseph McCarthy Arturo Toscanini 1957 World News Pop Culture European Economic Community Academy Award, Best Picture: Th e Bridge on the becomes eff ective River Kwai Munich air disaster leaves 21 Alvin Ailey establishes the American Dance dead, including 7 Manchester Th e a t er United Players Elvis Presley is inducted into the U.S. Army Th e Great Chinese Famine Th e Hula Hoop hits the market begins in 1958 and ends in 1961 causing the death of nearly 30 million people from a combination of natural disasters and poor planning Movies Vertigo Cat on a Hot Tin Roof South Pacifi c US News Th e Recession of 1958 causes over a 7.0% increase in unemployment Army’s Jupiter-C rocket fi res fi rst US TV Shows satellite, Explorer I, into orbit Candid Camera Th e US Supreme Court rules Th e Ed Sullivan Show unanimously that Little Rock, AK schools must integrate Th e Jack Benny Show NASA is formed US Nuclear Submarine “Nautilus” passes under Ice Cap at North Pole Books Truman Capote – Breakfast at Tiff any’s Jack Kerouac – Th e Subterraneans, Th e Dharma Bums Economy Th eodore Roethke – Words for the Wind Average cost of new house: $12,750 Leon Uris – Exodus Average monthly rent: $92.00 Average yearly wages: $4,600 Gallon of gas: 25 cents Died this Year Robert Donat Alfred Noyes Norman Bel Geddes 1958 World News Pop Culture An international Academy Award, Best Picture: Gigi agreement is signed to Th e US Grammy Music Awards are started preserve Antarctica Frank Sinatra wins his fi rst Grammy Cuban President Batista Award: Best Album - Come Dance with Me resigns and fl ees Th e Sound of Music, opens on Broadway Fidel Castro assumes power “Th e Day the Music Died”: Th e chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Tibet’s Dalai Lama Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper goes escapes to India down in an Iowa snowstorm, killing all four occupants on board First pictures of Earth from space are taken by Explorer 6 US News Alaska becomes the 49th state Hawaii becomes the 50th state Movies Th e Guggenheim Museum Room at the Top designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Ben Hur in New York City is completed Some Like It Hot Boeing 707 Jet Airliner comes into service cutting 8 hours Anatomy of a Murder from transatlantic fl ight US Launches fi rst Weather Station in space Xerox launches the fi rst commercial copier TV Shows Bonanza (the fi rst weekly television series broadcast completely in color) Juke Box Jury Economy Th e Huckleberry Hound Show Gallon of gas: 25 cents Average cost of a new car: $2,200 Movie ticket: $1.00 Loaf of bread: 20 cents Kodak movie camera: $67.50 Died this Year Lou Costello Cecil B. De Mille Mel Ott Frank Lloyd Wright 1959 Top 10 Top 10 1956 Top 10 1958 Artist/Track Artist/Track Dean Martin, “Memories Are Made Of This” Danny and the Juniors, “At The Hop” The Platters, “Great Pretender” Elvis Presley, “Don’t (I Beg of You)” Kay Starr, “Rock And Roll Waltz” The Champs, “Tequila” Les Baxter, “Poor People of Paris” The Platters, “Twilight Time” Elvis Presley, “Heartbreak Hotel” David Seville, “Witch Doctor” Pat Boone, “I Almost Lost My Mind” The Everly Brothers, “All I Have To Do Is Dream” Elvis Presley, “Don’t Be Cruel/Hound Dog” Sheb Wooley, “Purple People Eater” Jim Lowe, “Green Door” Elvis Presley, “Hard Headed Woman” Elvis Presley, “Love Me Tender” The Elegants, “Little Star” Guy Mitchell, “Singing the Blues” Conway Twitty, “It’s Only Make Believe” Top 10 1957 Top 10 1959 Artist/Track Artist/Track Guy Mitchell, “Singing the Blues” David Seville & the Chipmunks, “Chipmunk Song” Tab Hunter, “Young Love” Dave “Baby” Cortez, “The Happy Organ” Elvis Presley, “All Shook Up” Wilbert Harrison, “Kansas City” Pat Boone, “Love Letters In the Sand” Johnny Horton, “The Battle of New Orleans” Elvis Presley, “Teddy Bear” Paul Anka, “Lonely Boy” Debbie Reynolds, “Tammy” Elvis Presley, “A Big Hunk O’ Love” Jimmie Rodgers, “Honeycomb” The Browns, “The Three Bells” The Everly Brother, “Wake Up Little Susie” Bobby Darin, “Mack the Knife” Elvis Presley, “Jailhouse Rock” The Fleetwoods, “Mr. Blue” Sam Cooke, ”You Send Me Guy Mitchell, “Heartaches by the Number” 1959 Today - President: Abram L. Sachar - President: Frederick M. Lawrence - Commencement Speaker: Pierre - Commencement Speaker: Geo rey Mendes-France (a French politician Canada (President/CEO of Harlem who served as France’s Prime Children’s Zone) Minister in the Fourth Republic) - Tuition: $43,980 - Tuition: $700 - Total Undergraduates: 3,504 - Students Enrolled in Fall Term: - Countries Represented: 65 1,166 - Clubs and Organizations: 260+ - Number of Graduates: 261 - Number of Majors and Minors: 43 - Eighth Commencement Exercise and 45 Joy Zacharia Appelbaum Life since Brandeis... When my marriage ended in 1984 I returned to teaching. I was graduated from Brandeis U with Distinction in June of Budget cuts made teaching positions scarce so I changed careers. ‘58, in three years, in order to marry and thus prevent my future For fourteen years I was Director of P.R. and Student Worker husband from being drafted into the US Armed Forces after his Programs for long term care facilities. My work career ended graduation from Columbia U. Law School. Th e Viet Nam War with a tenure appointment to the Bergen County Academies in was of great concern at the time. We were married August of ‘59. Hackensack, N.J., a high school for gifted students that included While my husband served his tour of duty in the National Guard, advanced placement courses and summer trips to Spain.Olé. I earned my MA degree from NYU Graduate School of Education My hobby during these many decades has been active in October of ‘59 and began teaching Spanish at Stuyvesant H.S. participation in Sephardic organizations, attending and lecturing in NYC. at several university conferences on Sephardic history and We waited fi ve years before starting a family in which time I customs, even one at Brandeis U. Exceptional personal travel also taught classes in French and Italian. Son David was born experiences, including several opera tours of Italy (one during in 1963; graduated from Vassar College and has lived in San the Verdi Centennial) and of Eastern Europe, rounded out a Francisco these last 20 years. He is a very successful executive productive life. I visited family who lived in Istanbul for many in the marketing of technology products.