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

Headline February 27, 1951...The 22^nd Amendment to

the United States Constitution, limiting the
number of terms a president may serve is ratified.

Headline 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.

Headline April 5, 1951...Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Convicted of passing US atomic secrets to the

Soviet Union are sentenced to death

(executed in 1953).

Headline May, 1951...UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer),

the first business computer to handle both numeric and

alphabetic data, is introduced.

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???

Headline, July, 1951...Color television is

first introduced in the United States .

Headline, October, 1951...New York Yankees defeat

the New York giants 4 games to 2 in the World Series!!!