The decade of the sixties has links to the pages of ten graduating classes starting with 1960 and ending with 1969.

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If a link doesn't take you anywhere, it is not yet available (Current available links - 1960, 1963, 
1966, 1967 only). The class of 1963 would like to thank Bill Marshall for providing their website.

As the decade of the sixties began on Jan. 1, 1960:

Top Headlines of the Week:
Jan 1 - Bank of France issues new franc, worth 20 ¢  Jan 1 - Cameroon (French Cameroon) gains independence from France  Jan 1 - Johnny Cash plays 1st of many free concerts behind bars  Jan 1 - Montserrat adopts constitution  Jan 1 - US census at 179,245,000  Jan 2 - Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for President

Prices:
House $18,500, Car $2,275, Milk $1.04, Gas $.31, Bread $.20, Stamp $.04, Average Income $6,227, Dow 616.

President: Dwight Eisenhower  Vice President: Richard Nixon

In 1960, the following made headlines:

In the Hughes Laboratory in California, physicist Theodore Maiman perfects the laser, now widely used in surgery, holography, communications, and printing.

In Vietnam, the National Liberation Front is formed by Communist dissident groups called Vietcong who seek to overthrow South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem.

Film classics such as The Magnificent Seven and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho come out in theaters while "The Twist," by Chubby Checkers, starts a dance craze.

As the decade of the sixties closed on Dec. 31, 1969:

Some Headlines of the Year:
Jan 1 - VAT forms  Jan 2 - "Fig Leaves Are Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in New Jersey

Prices:
House $40,000, Car $3,400, Milk $1.26, Gas $.35, Bread $.23, Stamp $.06, Average Income $10,577, Dow 800.

President: Richard Nixon  Vice President: Spiro Agnew

From the Quill Annuals of the sixties:
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      1960                            1967                           1967