Happenings
in the days of our school years...
1954..........Our school days began
1955..........Rutherford Public Library built
1956..........Suez Canal crisis
1957..........Sputnik
1958..........First American satellite launched
1959..........Hawaii and Alaska become states
Rutherford Junior High School opened
1960..........Small plane crashed on Orient Way, Rutherford
1961..........First American in space - Alan Shepard
1962..........Cuban missle crisis - world on the brink of nuclear war
The formation of the New York Mets
1963..........President Kennedy was assassinated
James
Meredith became the first African-American
student
in a white Southern university
1964..........Khrushchev deposed
1965..........Pope Paul VI visited the United Nations
1966..........Congress noted for major social legislation
1967..........First deaths in the American space program
(Grissom, White II, and Chaffee)
First successful heart transplant - Dr. Christiaan Barnard
First Super Bowl - Green Bay over Kansas City 35-10
We
graduated from RHS!
