F L A S H B A C K
Class of 1951
- Unemployment 5.3%
- Cost of a First Class Stamp is 3 cents
- President is Harry Truman
- Vice President is Alben Barkley
- Population...154,877,889
Headlines:
- February 27, 1951:The 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting the number of terms a president may serve is ratified.
- March 29, 1951: Yul Brynner makes his first appearance as the king of Siam in Rodgers and Hammerstein's the King and I. Gertrude Lawrence is Brynner's costar.
- April 5, 1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Convicted of passing US atomic secrets to the Soviet Union are sentenced to death (executed in 1953).
- May, 1951: UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer), the first business computer to handle both numeric and alphabetic data, is introduced.
- July, 1951: Color television is first introduced in the United States .
- October, 1951: New York Yankees defeat the New York giants 4 games to 2 in the World Series!!!
Many of the teachers shown above were still teaching school 10 years later and even beyond 1961. Who did you have teach you and what Year???
