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Staples History
Founded by Horace Staples, the school opened on October 31, 1884, in a three-story brick building on
Riverside Avenue, the future sight of Bedford Junior High School. Beginning with 60 students paying
tuition of $16-$20, the school had several classrooms, a science laboratory and a library. On June 24, 1887,
the first graduating class of six women received diplomas with a picture of founder Horace Staples.
In 1958, to follow community expansion, Staples moved to its current location on North Avenue. The
new facility contained a gymnasium, cafeteria and an auditorium which was an impressive structure at
the time. The school’s design was unique for its time, utilizing separate buildings and requiring people
to walk outside to get around. The idea was intended to save energy and improve evacuation in case of
fire. A modernization project took place from 1978 and 1981 that added a Fieldhouse, Pool and Library.
In 2003, construction began on an $80 million project to renovate and expand the school into a brand-new
facility. During this project, many of the original buildings were demolished as the new school was built
on their original footings. The project was completed in 2006.
In 2004, the Wall Street Journal listed Staples among the best public and private schools in the United States.
1967 Facts
U.S. Population: 198,712,055 (300 millionth American born in October 2006)
World Population: 3.485 billion
Cost of a First Class Stamp: 5 cents
President: Lyndon Johnson
Vice President: Hubert Humphrey
Life expectancy: 70.5 years
Median Household Income: $7,143
Unemployment Rate: 3.8%
Daylight Saving Time begins
Seat belts: Beginning in 1967, all new cars (and those manufactured since 1/1/65) were required
to be fitted with front seat belts
A New Chevrolet: Sells for less than $2,500
Rolling Stone Magazine: debuts with initial $7,500 investment, a volunteer staff and sells 6,000 copies
Staples 1967
Principal: James Calkins
Class Officers:
President: Dave Jackson
Vice President: Randy Ringer
Secretary: Nancy Mann
Treasurer: Steve Reynolds
Senator-at-Large: Joyce Chestnut
Senior Advisors:
Mr. David Harrison
Mrs. Joy Walker
Mr. Hans Johnson
Billboard Top Rock ‘N’ Roll Hits of 1967
1.
Little Bit O' Soul –
Music Explosion
2.
The Letter –
The Box Tops
3.
Happy Together –
The Turtles
4. Soul Man –
Sam & Dave
5. Windy –
The Association
6. Respect –
Aretha Franklin
7. Incense and Peppermints –
Strawberry Alarm Clock
8. I Think We’re Alone Now –
Tommy James & the Shondells
9. Good Thing –
Paul Revere & the Raiders
10. Gimme Some Lovin’ –
The Spencer Davis Group
1967 Grammy Awards
Album of the Year: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (first rock album to win this category), The Beatles
Record of the Year: “Up, Up and Away,” 5th Dimension
Best New Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Best Vocal Performance, Male: “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” Glenn Campbell
Best Vocal Performance, Female: “Ode to Billie Joe,” Bobbie Gentry
Best Rhythm and Blues Recording: “Respect,” Aretha Franklin
Best Country & Western Performance: “Jackson,” Johnny Cash & June Carter
1967 Tony Awards
Play: The Homecoming
Musical: Cabaret
1967 Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
Drama: Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance
1967 Academy Awards
Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night
Best Actor: Rod Steiger, In the Heat of the Night
Best Actress: Katherine Hepburn, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Director: Mike Nichols, The Graduate
1967 Emmy Awards
Outstanding Dramatic Series: Mission Impossible
Outstanding Comedy Series: The Monkees
That Was the Year That Was...
A month-by-month compendium of information, facts and trivia compiled from our Senior year at Staples
starting at the end of our Junior year (Prom month – May 1966) and going through June 1967. This
is a work in progress, so please send us information that my be included here.
May 12 – Busch Memorial Stadium opens in St. Louis, Missouri
May 15 – Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators picket the White House, then rally at the Washington Monument
May 16 – Beach Boys legendary album Pet Sounds released
May 28 – Class of 1967 Junior Prom held at Staples High School Cafeteria
June 5 – Gemini 9: Gene Cernan completes the second U.S. spacewalk (2 hours & 27 minutes)
June 6 – Civil rights activist James Meredith is shot while marching in Mississippi
June 13 -- Miranda v. Arizona: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them
June 23 – Staples High School Class of 1966 Graduation Ceremony clearing the way for Nous
June 29 – Vietnam War: U.S. planes begin bombing Hanoi and Haiphong
June 30 – National Organization for Women (NOW) founded in Washington, DC
July 4 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
July 18 – The Hough Riots break out in Cleveland, Ohio, the city’s first race riot
July 28 – U.S. announces a U-2 reconnaissance plane disappeared over Cuba
August 5 – Martin Luther King Jr. leads a civil rights march in Chicago, he is struck by a rock thrown from an angry white mob
August 8 – The Beatles release Revolver (album) in the United States
August 10 – Lunar Orbiter 1 launched, first U.S. spacecraft to orbit another world
August 14 – Gail's 17
August 15 – The New York Herald Tribune stops publication
August 29 – The Beatles play their last concert at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, California
September 7 – Final new episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show airs (first episode aired October 3, 1961)
September 8 – Star Trek TV series debuts; original series included 80 episodes
September 16 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City to the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s opera, Antony and Cleopatra
World Series: St. Louis Cardinals beat the Boston Red Sox (4 games to 3)
Black Panther Party: founded by Bobby Seal and Huey P. Newton
October 16 – Grace Slick performs live first time with the Jefferson Airplane
October 22 – The Yardbirds perform at Staples High School
October 24 – Negotiations about the Vietnam War begin in Manila, Phillipines
November 4 – The Arno River floods Florence, damaging many art treasures
November 8 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes first African American elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction
November 8 – Ronald Reagan, a Republican, is elected Governor of California
November 17 – A spectacular Leonid meteor shower passes over Arizona, at the rate of 2,300 a minute for 20 minutes
December 15 – Walt Disney dies of lung cancer in Los Angeles
December 23 – How The Grinch Stole Christmas, narrated by Boris Karloff, debuts on CBS and becomes the best-loved film ever based on a Dr. Seuss book
December 26 – First Kwanzaa celebrated by Maulana Karenga, chair of Black Studies, at California State University, Long Beach
January 2 – Charlie Chaplin open his last film, A Countess From Hong Kong
January 4 – The Doors debut their first album “The Doors”
January 12 – Dr. James Bedford first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation
January 15 -- Superbowl I is played at the Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles; Green Bay (NFL) 35 – Kansas City (AFL) 10
January 27 – Apollo I: astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White and Roger Chaffee killed when fire erupts in Apollo spacecraft during launch pad test
February 2 – The American Basketball Association is formed
February 5 – “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” premiers on CBS
February 12 – The Young Rascals perform at Staples High School
February 18 – New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrisons claims he will solve the John F. Kennedy assassination and that it was planned in New Orleans
March 17 – The Greatful Dead release first studio album: “The Greatful Dead”
March 25 – The Who performs their first U. S. concert in New York CIty
March 27 – Bob Dylan releases his “Greatest Hits” album
March 29 – A 13-day TV strike begins in the U.S.
April 9 – The first Boeing 737 takes its maiden flight
April 14/15 – Large anti-war demonstrations San Francisco and New York
April 20 – The Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon
April 28 – Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses military service
May 1 – Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas
May 2 – The Toronto Maple Leaf win the Stanley Cup
May 6 – Students seize administration building at Cheyney State College, PA
May 12 – Linda Ronstadt’s first single Different Drum, with The Stone Poneys
May 12 – The Jim Hendrix Experience releases the Are You Experienced album
May 19 – The Blues Project perform at Staples High School
June 1 – Beatles release Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
June 5 – June 10 – Israel defeats its Arab neighbors in Six Day War, occupying the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights
June 13 – Thurgood Marshall nominated as first African American U. S. Supreme Court Justice
June 17 – Staples Class of 1967 Senior Prom “Emerald City”
June 25 – 400 million viewers watch Our World, first live, international, satellite TV production, featuring debut of The Beatle’s song All You Need Is Love
June 22 – Staples High School Class of 1967 Graduation Ceremony
June 27 – First automatic cash machine installed in Barclays Bank, England
Quod erat demonstrandum
Thanks, Gail; the facts Ma'am, nothing but the facts.
The Reunion Committee
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