Class of 1964 th 50 Reunion BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY 50th 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 1964 Reunion Committee Joel M. Abrams, Co-chair Ellen Lasher Kaplan, Co-chair Danny Lehrman, Co-chair Eve Eisenmann Brooks, Yearbook Coordinator Charlotte Glazer Baer Peter A. Berkowsky Joan Paller Bines Barbara Hayes Buell Je rey W. Cohen Howard G. Foster Michael D. Freed Frederic A. Gordon Renana Robkin Kadden Arnold B. Kanter Alan E. Katz Michael R. Lefkow Linda Goldman Lerner Marya Randall Levenson Michael Stephen Lewis Michael A. Oberman Stuart A. Paris David M. Phillips Arnold L. Reisman Leslie J. Rivkind Joe Weber Jacqueline Keller Winokur Shelly Wolf Class of 1964 Timeline Class of 1964 Timeline 1961 US News • John F. Kennedy inaugurated as President of the United World News States • East Germany • Peace Corps offi cially erects the Berlin established on March Wall between East 1st and West Berlin • First US astronaut, to halt fl ood of Navy Cmdr. Alan B. refugees Shepard, Jr., rockets Movies • Beginning of 116.5 miles up in 302- • The Parent Trap Checkpoint Charlie mile trip • 101 Dalmatians standoff between • “Freedom Riders” • Breakfast at Tiffany’s US and Soviet test the United States • West Side Story Books tanks Supreme Court Economy • Joseph Heller – • The World Wide decision Boynton v. • Average income per TV Shows Catch 22 Died this Year Fund for Nature Virginia by riding year: $5,315 • Wagon Train • Henry Miller - • Ty Cobb (WWF) started racially integrated • Unemployment: • Bonanza Tropic of Cancer • Carl Jung • 40 Dead Sea interstate buses into the 5.5% • Andy Griffi th • Lewis Mumford • Chico Marx Scrolls are found South. • Average cost of a • Candid Camera - The City in • Ernest in Palestine • President Kennedy new car: $2,850 • Mr. Ed the talking History Hemingway • World’s population pledged extra aid to • Eggs per dozen: 30 horse • J. D. Salinger - • Gary Cooper reaches 4 billion South Vietnam cents • The Twilight Zone Franny and Zooey • Grandma Moses 1961 Pop Culture Inventions Toys • The Pony becomes a popular dance • Laser is • Astronaut Robot (price: • Johnson & Johnson introduces Tylenol invented by $3.79) • The YoYo becomes the newest craze and is the largest selling toy Theodore • Play House (price: $12.99) • Ray Kroc buys out the McDonald brothers and takes control of the Harold Maiman • Barbie’s friend, Ken, is hamburger chain • IBM introduces introduced • First in-fl ight movie shown on TWA the Selectric • Squibb, Co. produces the fi rst electric toothbrush Typewriter • Optical disc was invented by David Paul Gregg • First powdered non-dairy creamer introduced by Nestle • Valium Class of 1964 Timeline Class of 1964 Timeline 1962 World News US News • Cuban Missile Crisis: • John Glenn becomes USSR to build fi rst American to orbit missile bases in Cuba; the Earth Kennedy orders • Oral Polio Vaccine Cuban blockade to developed by Albert Economy prevent Soviet missile Sabin given to millions • Average cost of new deployment of children to combat house: $12,500 • The United Nations General Assembly Polio • Average monthly passes a resolution • United States rent: $110 per month Books condemning South Supreme Court • Minimum hourly • Robert Frost - In Africa’s racist rules that offi cially wage: $1.25 the Clearing apartheid policies sponsored prayer • Medium family • Günter Grass - The Died this year and calls for all UN in public schools is income $6,000 per Tin Drum • Eleanor member states to cease unconstitutional year • Ken Kesey - One Roosevelt military and economic • The First Wal-Mart • Color TV set: $400 Flew Over the • William relations with the nation discount store is • Fast food hamburger: Movies Cuckoo’s Nest Faulkner • Telstar relays the fi rst opened by Sam 20 cents • Spartacus • Richard Yates - • Marilyn Monroe live trans-Atlantic Walton in Bentonville • Doctor’s offi ce visit: • Lawrence of Arabia Eleven Kinds of • Niels Bohr television signal Arkansas $5 • To Kill a Mockingbird Loneliness • Ernie Kovacs 1962 Pop Culture Inventions Toys • Johnny Carson takes over hosting duties of The Tonight Show • Compact audio- • Etch-A-Sketch (price: • Beatles turned down by Decca Records cassette $2.94) • Andy Warhol’s famous painting of the Campbell Soup can is • Computer video exhibited game: Spacewar • Beverly Hillbillies and The Dick Van Dyke show premiere on TV • Fiber-tip pen • Polaroid introduces color fi lm prints which develop in 60 seconds • The “Mashed Potato” and the “Watusi” dances hit the scene Class of 1964 Timeline Class of 1964 Timeline 1963 US News • Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary known as “The Rock” closes • President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22nd in World News Dallas, Texas • Washington-to- • “March on Movies Moscow “hot line” Washington,” civil • Cleopatra communications rights rally held in Economy • The Longest Day Books link opens, designed Washington, D.C.; • Pay phone (local • Lawrence of Arabia • Betty Friedan - The to reduce risk of Martin Luther King call): 10 cents • To Kill a Mockingbird Feminine Mystique accidental war delivers “I Have a • Loaf of bread: 22 • Sylvia Plath - The Bell Died this year • France and West Dream” speech cents TV Shows Jar • John Fitzgerald Germany sign treaty • US car maker, • Bedroom air • Coronation Street • John Rechy - City of Kennedy of cooperation ending Studebaker, goes out conditioner: $149.95 • The Flintstones Night (11/22/1963) four centuries of of business and ends • Hershey bar: 5 cents • Petticoat Junction • John Updike - The • Robert Frost confl ict production • Popular science • The Avengers Centaur • Rogers Hornsby • Berlin Wall opens for • First US state lottery in magazine: 35 cents • The Dick Van Dyke • Kurt Vonnegut - Cat’s • Aldous Huxley 1 day passes New Hampshire per issue Show Cradle • Patsy Cline 1963 Pop Culture Inventions Toys • The fi rst episode of the BBC television series Doctor Who is • The touchtone • Musical TV Phonograph broadcast telephone is (price: $3.99) • Viewers tuned into NBC witness Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey invented • Troll Dolls (price: $1.44 Oswald on camera • Designers at each) • The Rolling Stones emerge as the anti-Beatles, with an aggressive, Kenner Products blues-derived style develop the Easy • The French Chef with Julia Child debuts on educational television Bake Oven • The fi rst prototype Learjet takes off • The computer • Zip codes implemented in US mouse prototype is created by Douglas Engelbart Class of 1964 Timeline Class of 1964 Timeline 1964 World News • Nelson Mandela and seven others sentenced on June 12th to life imprisonment in South Africa • The British and French governments US News Books announce • Boston Strangler Albert Economy • Donald Barthelme commitment to DeSalvo is captured • Average cost of new - Come Back, Dr. build a tunnel • US Surgeon General house: $13,050 Caligari under the English reports smoking may • Gas per gallon: 30 • John Hawkes - Channel lead to lung cancer cents Second Skin • Summer Olympics • President Johnson • Loaf of bread: 21 • Ernest are held in Tokyo, signs bill enacting cents Hemingway - A Japan (South Medicare • United States Movies Moveable Feast Died this year Africa barred • First Ford Mustang is postage stamp: 5 • It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, • Hubert Selby • Herbert Clark due to Apartheid made cents Mad World - Last Exit to Hoover Policies) • The powerful 9.2 • Ticket to the movies: • The Unsinkable Molly Brooklyn • Douglas • Winter Olympic magnitude earthquake $1.25 Brown • Ronald Dahl – MacArthur Games are held in strikes South Central • Life Magazine: 35 • My Fair Lady Charlie and the • Harpo Marx Innsbruck, Austria Alaska cents per issue • Mary Poppins Chocolate Factory • Gracie Allen 1964 Pop Culture Inventions Toys • Peyton Place, The fi rst prime-time soap opera premieres on ABC. • Sony • Bobsled (price: $31.97) • Color television makes its way into U.S. homes. introduces the • Game of Scrabble (price: • The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show fi rst VCR home $2.59) • Sidney Poitier becomes the fi rst black actor to win “Best Actor” video recorder Oscar • Permanent • Elizabeth Taylor marries Richard Burton for the fi rst time press fabric • Hasbro launches G.I. Joe, an action fi gure for boys • Acrylic paint Top 10 Top 10 1961 Top 10 1963 Artist/Track Artist/Track Bert Karmpfert, “Wonderland by Night” The Tornadoes, “Telstar” The Shirelles, “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” Steve Lawrence, “Go Away Little Girl” The Marcels, “Blue Moon” The Four Seasons, “Walk Like a Man” Ricky Nelson, “Travelin’ Man” Jimmy Soul, “If You Wanna Be Happy” Pat Boone, “Moody River” Lesley Gore, “It’s My Party” Bobby Lewis, “Tossin’ and Turnin”’ Jan & Dean, “Surf City” Ray Charles, “Hit the Road Jack” The Angels, “My Boyfriend’s Back” Dion, “Runaround Sue” Bobby Vinton, “Blue Velvet” The Marvelettes, “Please Mr. Postman” Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs, ”Sugar Shack” The Tokens, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” Nino Tempo & April Stevens, “Deep Purple” Top 10 1962 Top 10 1964 Artist/Track Artist/Track Chubby Checker, “The Twist” Bobby Vinton, “There! I’ve Said It Again” Bruce Channel, “Hey! Baby” The Beatles, “I Want To Hold Your Hand” Shelley Fabares, “Johnny Angel” Louis Armstrong, “Hello, Dolly!” Elvis Presley, “Good Luck Charm” Mary Wells, “My Guy” Ray Charles, “I Can’t Stop Loving You” The Dixie Cups, “Chapel Of Love” Neil Sedaka, “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do” The Beach Boys, “I Get Around” Little Eva, “The Loco-Motion” The Four Seasons, “Rag Doll” The Four Seasons, “Sherry”