Our Memories:

   (do you have any to add, or has it been too long?

Variety Show - can you name them all?                    Dillingham Cheerleaders  

                                                                 top-lou ellen penton, gail cary, becca hall

                                                                 bottom- innette sofey, jerriann blythe, gail howard

Washington Elementary - 6th Grade - Mrs. Rice       Washington Elementary - 3rd - Mrs. Latcher

...Sunset Beach 

...Rushing to your car so you can get to the Dairy Queen first for lunch

...The announcement during school that President Kennedy had been shot

...Whitewash on the streets

...New front doors on the school after homecoming

... Miss Loop attacking the band from the second floor history classroom with chalk and erasers...and then running out the door to go confront Mr. Sonnenberg

...Little's Pharmacy

...The Patio and Gordon's Old Fashioned freeze

...Senior night

...Denison burning our Bearcat and us retaliating.

...Mrs. Penton's homemaking class.

...Mr. Roe

 

Happenings in 1964.....

 

Born        Russell Crowe

                Wynonna Judd

                Courtney Cox

                Bridgett Fonda

                Chris Farley

                Rob Lowe

 

Deaths:        Alan Ladd

                    Gracie Allen

                    Harpo Marx

                    Sam Cooke

 

Marriages:     Bill & Camille Cosby

                      Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

                      Dick & Lynne Cheney

                      Sonny & Cher

 

 

Rock Hits      #1  Twist & Shout - Beatles

                    #2  Under The Boardwalk - The Drifters

                    #3  I saw Her Standing There - Beatles

                    #4  Dancing In the Street - Martha & the Vandellas

                    #5  You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling - Righteous Brothers

 

Academy Award:    Best Actor        Rex Harrison    My Fair Lady

                            Best Actress     Julie Andrews   My Fair Lady

                            Best Picture

 

World Events:    Nelson Mandela sentenced to life in prison

                        LBJ re-elected US President

                        Feb. 9th - Beatles appeared live on Ed Sullivan

                                   

 

Sports:           

World Series: St. Louis over New York Yankees, 4-3

Summer Olympics held in Tokyo

Winter Olympics in Innsbruck

Cassius Clay (the future Muhammad Ali) defeats Sonny Liston to win heavyweight boxing title

 

FUN FACTS:

• According to some reports, not a single juvenile crime is reported in New York City the night of the Beatles' first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964