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Class of 57 Turns 50 The Way We Were
Members of the class of 1957 approach their 50th year from 1989, reflecting on birth years 1939 to 1957 and landmark events. They recall World War II, radio programs, postwar life, schools, teachers, and cultural shifts from Ike to Kennedy, Sputnik, Bay of Pigs, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poland
Green Hornet
The
Shadow
WLS
Europe
Pacific
Lassie
National Velvet
Elizabeth Taylor
Roddy McDowell
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Harry S. Truman
Franklin Roosevelt
Truman
Oregon
Nash School
Mildred VanInwegan
Oregon Theater
Roy Rogers
Gene Autry
Hopalong Cassidy
Abbott and Costello
Bowery Boys
Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
Pa Kettle
Ike
White Pines
Oregon High School
Dick Biondi
Elvis
Khrushchev
Berlin
Francis Gary Powers
Russia
Castro
Cuba
Alan Shepard
Kennedy
Peace Corps
Bay of Pigs
Dallas
Johnson
Vietnam