Rosalie Cottingham, Liz Logrbrinck, Sharon Heald and Roberta Jacobs
practice for a skit.
(They did not inhale!)
Sharon, Karol and Rosalie enjoy breakfast.
Sharon, Rosalie, Liz and Karol.
Andrea Smith goes fishing on Lake Michigan with a friend.
Sharon sunbathes in her backyard.
Front Row, left to right: Jackie Novak, Shirley Bowen, Barbara Douglas,
Joan ?, Barbara Schaller,
Back Row, left to right: Janice Stelter, Marjorie Dickinson, Bonnie
Green, Nancy Floyd, Jan Patterson.
(Photo courtesy of Jackie Novak Peacock)
Michele Kearney, Sue Cowan and June Swift with Diane Pettingell
and Carol Sanger as ponyback riders
at a pajama party in 1952. (Photo courtesy of Diane Pettingell Staes.)
Steve Phillips and Bill Thode enjoy a coke in the student lounge,
others unidentified.
The Best of Times, 1956
by Michele Kearney Eisner
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon were campaigning for re-election.
The Baby Boom was in full swing.
The "Ed Sullivan Show" played host to Elvis Presley, who made three
appearances for an unprecedented $50,000. Presley was shown only from the
waist up. (Ed Sullivan also played host to "The Singing Rockets" -- monetary
compensation unknown.
Elvis's songs, "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" were tops.
Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight was aired on CBS
PLAYHOUSE 90.
The Mickey Mouse Club was in it's second year --M-I-C, K-E-Y, M-O-U-S-E
!
Grace Metalious' novel, Peyton Place was on the best-seller
list.
Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was made available for mass use in
August of 1956.
Eisenhower won re-election in November against Illinois' own Adlai
E. Stevenson.
Chevrolet introduced the '57 Chevy Bel-Air on Labor Day, 1956; it
became one of the most popular cars ever.
The Academy Award for Best Picture was won for Around the World
in 80 Days, starring David Niven. Yul Brynner won the best actor
award for The King and I, beating out James Dean for Giant. Ingrid
Bergman won best actress for Anastasia. The awards were presented
in 1957.
Awards presented in 1956: Ernest Borgnine for Marty, Anna
Magnani for The Rose Tatoo.
Other films nominated were: Love Me or Leave Me, Love is a Many
Splendored Thing, Mr. Roberts, Picnic, East of Eden, Man with a Golden
Arm, Bad Day at Black Rock, I'll Cry Tomorrow, Summertime and Interrupted
Melody.
The Nobel Prize for Literature was won by Spanish writer, Juan Ramon
Jimenez for his work, Platero and I.
The Nobel Prize for Physics was won by three Americans: John Bardeen,
Walter Brattain and William Shockley, for their work in developing the
transistor.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Cyril Hinshelwood and Nikolai
Semenov.
Nobel Prize in Medicine: Dickinson Richards, Jr. (American) and
Andre Cournand (American, born in France) for work done in heart catherization.
There was no Peace Prize awarded in 1956.
SWAPS won the Kentucky Derby.
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Baton Twirlers, Front Row: Diane Pettingell, Judy Miller, Bonnie
Scheffler, Cathy Coffey
Back Row: Donna Patterson, Sondra Sohn, and Carolyn Lamblin
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