REUNION FUN

Acushnet Jr. High School - Memories of 1969

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Click the link to, take you back!!

http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm

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Class of "69" Memories:

Acushnet Jr. High School was changed to Albert F. Ford Jr. High by the time we graduated.

Principal
Mrs. Braley

Assistant Principal
Mr. Souza (shop teacher)

Class President
Carmen Costa

Class Vice President
Jeanine Spoor

Class Secretary
Julie Girard

Class Treasurer
Louise Connor

Valedictorian
Madeline Gauthier

Prom Queen
Jo Ann Bichel

Prom Song
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Queen of Hearts
Julie Girard

Queen of Hearts Theme
Valentines Day

Class Song
?

School Colors
Blue & White

School Team
The Wildcats

Memorable Events
Prom Night : theme - Aladin / Arabian Nights
fire drills

Hangouts

Pope Park, CYO, Acushnet Pharamacy, Town Beach, Pop Caseys, pump house.

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Top 10 List of Songs from 1969

1. "Crimson & Clover" - Tommy James & The Shondells
2. "Everyday People" - Sly & the Family Stone
3. "Dizzy" - Tommy Roe
4. "Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In" - The 5th Dimension
5. "Get Back" - The Beatles w/Billy Preston
6. "Love Theme from Romeo & Juliette" - Henry Mancini
7. "In the Year 2525" - Zager & Evans
8. "Honky Tonk Woman" - The Rolling Stones
9. "Sugar, Sugar" - The Archies
10. "I Can't Get Next to You" - The Temptations

BUT...The song that won the Grammy Award for Best Song that year was
Mrs. Robinson (from the movie, The Graduate) by Simon & Garfunkel

to view more, click here:
http://www.woodstock69.com/

These original unused tickets were intended for on-site sales at the festival, but due to the enormous crowd of close to 500,000 people, the fences were taken down before these tickets could be sold. The concert had become Free!! Unsold tickets were tossed into a leased security safe.

Origin of the "go-go dancer"

"Go-go" derives from the French a go go, in abundance, galore, a term that dates back to 1440 and may have derived from an older word agogue, merriment.
It found its way into our language by a route that's circuitous even for English. According to John Ciardi's Good Words to You, Compton MacKenzie published a novel in 1947 entitled Whisky Galore, about a freighter with 10,000 cases of whisky that is wrecked near a booze-starved island during World War II. The book was made into a movie of the same name in England (it was called Tight Little Island in its U.S. release) that when dubbed for the French became Whiskey a gogo, whiskey galore.
The movie inspired someone to open a bar in Paris (or was it Cannes? I can never remember these things) called "Whiskey a gogo," which became one of the first discotheques. Later the idea and the name were both imported to New York. One day the manager of the New York Whiskey a Go-Go took it upon himself to hire scantily clad girls to demonstrate new dances, and the go-go dancer was born.

Top TV Shows of the 1960’s

· Addams Family, The
· Andy Griffith Show, The
· Avengers, The
· Batman
· Bewitched
· Dick Van Dyke, Show
· Flipper
· Gilligan's Island
· Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C
· Green Acres
· Gunsmoke
· Hogan's Heroes
· I Dream Of Jeannie
· Munsters, The · Twilight Zone, The

http://timstvshowcase.com/kangaroo.html

This was a nicely animated public service spot that ran on the Captain Kangaroo program during the mid-sixties. Sadly, there are almost no existing video from the three decades long CBS run of Captain Kangaroo.Watch it now - in Real Player format...

http://www.tvparty.com/romper/rompercleve-end.ram

Miss Barbara wraps it up with the Magic Mirror. Gone are the rotating lights Miss Nancy was sporting ten years earlier, now the Magic Mirror is merely an empty frame. The better to see you with!

(click here to see the magic mirror)

http://www.tvparty.com/romper/romper1960-2.ram

Top Movies of 1969
Release Date
Movie
Distributor
Budget
Total US Gross
January, 1969

January, 1

Sweet Charity

$20,000,000
$8,000,000
January, 1

Undefeated, The

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$8,000,000
January, 1

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

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$6,000,000
March, 1969

March, 10

I Am Curious
Grove
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$18,570,318
March, 10

Jag ar Nyfiken - en film i gult

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$20,200,000
March, 12

Where Eagles Dare

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$7,100,000
March, 13

Love Bug, The
Walt Disney Co.
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$50,576,808
April, 1969

April, 3

Goodbye, Columbus
Paramount
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$22,939,805
May, 1969

May, 22

Winning
Universal
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$14,644,335
May, 25

Midnight Cowboy
MGM/UA
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$44,785,053
June, 1969

June, 11

True Grit
Paramount
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$31,132,592
June, 27

Che!
Fox
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$2,000,000
July, 1969

July, 14

Easy Rider
Sony
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$41,728,598
August, 1969

August, 20

Alice's Restaurant

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$6,300,000
August, 27

De Sade

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$1,200,000
September, 1969

September, 18

Bob & Carrol & Ted & Alice
Sony
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$31,897,253
October, 1969

October, 15

Paint Your Wagon
Paramount
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$31,678,778
October, 22

Sterile Cuckoo, The
Paramount
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$13,982,357
October, 24

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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$102,308,900
December, 1969

December, 8

Z
Cinema 5
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$15,511,678
December, 10

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

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$12,600,000
December, 11

Marooned

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$4,300,000
December, 16

Hello, Dolly
20th Century Fox
$20,000,000
$33,208,099
December, 16

Cactus Flower
Sony
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$25,889,208
December, 18

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

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$22,800,000
December, 19

Topaz
Universal
$4,000,000
$6,000,000

So What Happened in 1969?

January..........N.Y. Jets win Super Bowl after quarterback, Joe Namath, predicts win
Richard Milhouse Nixon inaugurated as U.S. President
Paris Peace Talks begin between U.S. and Vietnam
Soviet Soyuz becomes first space station
Robert Kennedy murder trial opens in L.A.
February........Diana Crump becomes first woman jockey to race at U.S. pari-mutuel track
Test tube fertilization becomes reality in England
March...........James Earl Ray convicted in assassination of Martin Luther King
Simon & Garfunkel win Best Pop Group and Best Record at Grammies
April..............Heaviest bombing in Vietnam to date (3,000 tons of bombs)
France's de Gaulle resigns
May..............Celtics beat Lakers in NBA championship
Berkley, CA's People's Park gets attacked by police & Nat'l Guard
Hamburger Hill taken by U.S. and South Vietnamese troops after
bloody 10 day battle only to abandon it 7 days later
July................Rolling Stones' Brian Jones dies
Senator Ted Kennedy involved in Chappaquiddick accident
Edwin Adrin and Neal Armstrong land on the moon
August...........Manson Family kill several in Tate and LaBianca murder sprees
Woodstock Art & Music Festival's peaceful crowd becomes
3rd largest city in New York
Hurricane Camille kills over 300 in Mississippi
September.....Moamer Qadafi overthrows King of Libya
Penthouse Magazine begins publication
North Vietnamese leader, Ho Chi Minh, dies
Trial starts for Chicago Eight
October.........N.Y. (Miracle) Mets win World Series
Willy Brandt becomes Chancellor of West Germany
Richard Burton buys wife Elizabeth Taylor a small bauble
(69 carat diamond)
November......"Sesame Street" debuts on PBS
Lt. Calley charged with Mai Lai massacre
December......Boeing 747 makes first public flight
Black Panther's Fred Hampton and Mark Clark killed in police raid
Hell's Angels, hired as security, kill concert goers during Rolling
Stones concert at Altamont Festival in San Francisco, CA

Released movies....Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Midnight Cowboy
Easy Rider

On May 25, 1961

President John F. Kennedy challenged Congressto send

a man to the moon by the end of the decade.

Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins

The Moon Landing
It seemed the whole world had stopped. Then, clear as crystal, came those immortal words . . . "That's one small step for man - one giant leap for mankind". The speaker: American astronaut Neil Armstrong. The place: The Moon.
In 1967 NASA began the Apollo project, and in 1968 astronauts Broman, Lovell and Anders orbited the moon in Apollo 8.
The ultimate achievement came on 21 July 1969 when Apollo 11 carried astronauts to the moon and Neil Armstrong became the most famous human in history, being the first to set foot on its surface.
It was July 20, 1969, and Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 mission, had just become the first human to set foot on the Moon. His feat, and that of his crew-mate Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin who was just a few paces behind him onto the moon's surface, was and still is the most memorable moment since the space race began in earnest towards the end of the 1950s.
The three astronauts returned to Earth on 24 July, but they had left some commemorative items on the Moon.
There was a small plaque which read, 'Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon, July, 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind'.
Shoulder patches and medals were also left on the moon, as well as a silicon disk which had been etched with messages from the leaders of 73 countries.
In 1967 NASA began the Apollo project, and in 1968 astronauts Broman, Lovell and Anders orbited the moon in Apollo 8.
The ultimate achievement came on 21 July 1969 when Apollo 11 carried astronauts to the moon and Neil Armstrong became the most famous human in history, being the first to set foot on its surface.

AMERICAN CULTURAL HISTORY
1960 – 1969

The sixties were the age of youth, as70 million children from the post-war baby boom became teenagers and young adults. The movement away from the conservative fifties continued and eventually resulted in revolutionary ways of thinking and real change in the cultural fabric of American life. No longer content to be images of the generation ahead of them, young people wanted change. The changes affected education, values, lifestyles, laws, and entertainment. Many of the revolutionary ideas which began in the sixties are continuing to evolve today.

FACTS about this decade.

Population 177,830,000
Unemployment 3,852,000
National Debt 286.3 Billion
Average Salary $4,743
Teacher's Salary $5,174
Minimum Wage $1.00
Life Expectancy: Males 66.6 years, Females 73.1 years
Auto deaths 21.3 per 100,000
An estimated 850,000 "war baby" freshmen enter college; emergency living quarters are set up in dorm lounges, hotels and trailer camps.

In 1960, Elvis returned to the music scene from the US Army, joining the other white male vocalists at the top of the charts; Bobby Darin, Neil Sedaka, Jerry Lee Lewis, Paul Anka, Del Shannon and Frankie Avalon. America, however, was ready for a change. The Tamla Motown Record Company came on the scene, specializing in black rhythm and blues, aided in the emergence of female groups such as Gladys Knight and the Pips, Martha and the Vandellas, the Supremes, and Aretha Franklin, as well as some black men, including Smoky Robinson, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, and the Temptations. Bob Dylan helped bring about a folk music revival, along with Joan Baez and Peter, Paul & Mary. The Beach Boys began recording music that appealed to high schoolers. The Beatles, from England, burst into popularity with innovative rock music that appealed to all ages. The Righteous Brothers were a popular white duo who used African American styling to create a distinctive sound.
There was a major change in popular music in the mid-1960's, caused in part by the drug scene. Acid Rock, highly amplified and improvisational, and the more mellow psychedelic rock gained prominence. When the Beatles turned to acid rock, their audience narrowed to the young. Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead grew out of the counterculture in 1967. The musical phenomena of the decade was Woodstock, a three day music festival that drew 400,000 hippies and featured peace, love, and happiness...and LSD. Folk music contributed to the counterculture.
The hippie movement endorsed drugs, rock music, mystic religions and sexual freedom. They opposed violence. The Woodstock Festival at which 400,000 young people gathered in a spirit of love and sharing, represents the pinnacle of the hippie movement. Many hippies moved to Haight Ashbury in San Francisco, East Village in New York City, or lived in communes.

The Space Race, begun by the Soviets in 1957, was highlighted by Alan Shepard, the first American in space in 1961. In 1963, John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, in Apollo XI, were the first men to walk on the moon in 1969. The surgeon general determined that smoking was a health hazard, and in 1965 required cigarette manufacturers to place warnings on all packages and in all ads. The first clone of a vertebrate, a South African tree frog, was produced in 1967. Dr. Denton Cooley implanted the first artificial heart in a human, and it kept the patient alive for three days until a human heart could be transplanted.
The Presidential Commission of the Status of Women (1963) presented disturbing facts about women's place in our society. Betty Friedan, Pauli Murray and Gloria Steinem, (National Organization of Women) questioned the unequal treatment of women, gave birth to Women's Lib, and disclosed the "glass ceiling." The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was amended to include gender. The birth control pill became widely available and abortion for cause was legalized in Colorado in 1967. In 1967, both abortion and artificial insemination became legal in some states.
The Civil Rights movement made great changes in society in the 1960's. The movement began peacefully, with Martin Luther King and Stokely Carmichael leading sit-ins and peaceful protests, joined by whites and Jews. Malcolm X preached black superiority, and by the end of the decade the Black Panthers were advocating black separatism, violence and anti-Semitism. The term "blacks" became socially acceptable, replacing "Negroes." The number of Hispanic Americans tripled during the decade and became recognized as an oppressed minority. Cesar Chavez organized Hispanics in the United Farm Workers Association. American Indians, facing unemployment rates of 50% and a life expectancy only two-thirds that of whites, began to assert themselves in the courts and in violent protests. The Presidential Commission of the Status of Women (1963) presented disturbing facts about women's place in our society. Betty Friedan, Pauli Murray and Gloria Steinem, (National Organization of Women) questioned the unequal treatment of women, gave birth to Women's Lib, and disclosed the "glass ceiling." The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was amended to include gender. The birth control pill became widely available and abortion for cause was legalized in Colorado in 1967. In 1967, both abortion and artificial insemination became legal in some states.

Television offered the second prime time cartoon show, the Flintstones , in 1960. (The first was Rocky and his Friends in 1959.) It appealed to both children and adults and set off a trend that included Alvin & the Chipmunks , the Jetsons , and Mr. Magoo. The Andy Griffith Show was the epitome of prime time family television, and ran for most of the decade. The Beverly Hillbillies heralded the rise of the sitcom. The supernatural and science fiction blended in many of the popular shows, including Bewitched, T he Addams Family, My Favorite Martian , I Dream of Jeannie, Star Trek, the Outer Limits , and the Twilight Zone. In the late 60's, humor was revived in a show called Rowan and Martin's Laugh In, where many regular performers and guests became part of a show biz classic.

REUNION TEST

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This is a test for us, the old kids! The answers are printed below, but don't you cheat.

READY???????? Here we go!

01. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, Who was that masked man? Invariably, someone would answer, I don't know, but he left this behind. What did he leave behind?____________

02. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. in early 1964, we all watched them on The __________________ Show.

03. "Get your kicks, ___________________."

04. "The story you are about to see if true. The names have been changed! ___________________."

05. "In the jungle, the mighty jungle, ________________."

06. After the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we "danced" under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called? the "_____________."

07. "N_E_S_T_L_E_S", Nestle's makes the very best _______________."

08. "Ambassador of Goodwill." Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was _________________.

09. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking? _______________

10. Red Skelton's hobo character was named __________________ and Red always ended his television show by saying, "Good Night, and "_______________".

11. Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning their____________.

12. The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk in the front was called the VW. What other names did it go by??? ____________ & _______________.

13.? In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, "the day the music died."? This was a tribute to ___________________.

14. We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit. The Russians did it. It was called ___________________.!

15. One of the big fads of the late 50's and 60's was a large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist. It was called the ________________

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ANSWERS:

01. The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet.

02. The Ed Sullivan! an Show

03. On Route 66

04. To protect the innocent.

05. The Lion sleeps tonight

06. The limbo

07. Chocolate

08. Louis Armstrong

09. The Timex watch

10. Freddy, The Freeloader, and "Good Night, and may God Bless."

11. Draft cards (Bras were also burned.)

12. Beetle or Bug

13. Buddy Holly

14. Sputnik

15. Hoola-hoop

Send this to your "old" friends. It will keep them busy and let them forget their aches and pains for a few minutes!

"Halloween Treat"
This is so neat! Click on the link below and turn up
your sound to hear the Monster Mash
while you carve your pumpkin.
Have fun! I sure did!
http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabotage/pumpkin_carve.asp

Black and White
(Under age 40? You won't understand.)

You could hardly see for all the snow,

Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.

Pull a chair up to the TV set,

"Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet."

Dependin'g on the channel you tuned,

You got Rob and Laura - or Ward and June.

It felt so good. It felt so right.

Life looked better in black and white.

I Love Lucy, The Real McCoys,

Dennis the Menace, the Cleaver boys,

Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train,

Superman, Jimmy and Lois Lane.

Father Knows Best, Patty Duke,

Rin Tin Tin and Lassie too,

Donna Reed on Thursday night! --

Life looked better in black and white.

I wanna go back to black and white.

Everything always turned out right.

Simple people, simple lives...

Good guys always won the fights.

Now nothing is the way it seems,

In living color on the TV screen.

Too many murders, too many fights,

I wanna go back to black and white.

In God they trusted, alone in bed, they slept,

A promise made was a promise kept.

They never cussed or broke their vows.

They'd never make the network now.

But if I could, I'd rather be

In a TV town in '53.

It felt so good. It felt so right.

Life looked better in black and white.

I'd trade all the channels on the satellite,

If I could just turn back the clock tonight

To when everybody knew wrong from right.

Life was better in black and white!

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