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Memorabilia
Despite the social and political upheaval of the 1960s, they left us
with many thoughtful, endearing, and enduring symbols of that time.
From the promise of a new generation leading the United States (as
seen in the countenance and enthusiasm of the youthful President John F.
Kennedy), to the hope of equal rights across the land, the space
race, and from the near point of nuclear annihilation to a querulous
war in Indochina, the 1960s was a decade of chaos.
Assassinations of American leaders and riots in the cities were all
too prevalent, while a chasm between the older generations and the
younger was never before so bitter. 1967 itself was perhaps the most
turbulent year of all.
As graduating classes go, EHS class of
1967 was fairly large. We had 578 alumni, each with their own
experiences and memories from those years. However, here are a few
that we shared in common. |
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Note - Missing data will be added when
available and as time allows
| Population |
1955 |
1967 |
2007 |
2012 |
2017 |
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City of Everett (thousands - approx.)
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30.0 |
50.0 |
100.0 |
103.0 |
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| Washington State (millions - approx.) |
2.6 |
3.7 |
6.4 |
6.8 |
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| United States (millions - approx.) |
164.0 |
195.0 |
300.0 |
313.0 |
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| World (billions - approx.) |
2.8 |
3.5 |
6.6 |
7.0 |
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| Average life expectancy - males (yrs) |
65.5 |
66.6 |
75.2 |
75.8 |
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| Average life expectancy - females (yrs) |
71.0 |
73.1 |
80.4 |
81.7 |
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| Auto deaths per year (per 100,000 pop.) |
22.4 |
21.3 |
18.0 |
16.1 |
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| Number of high schools in Everett, WA |
1 |
2 |
4 |
5* |
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* Includes Online High School |
| Prices & Economy |
1955 |
1967 |
2007 |
2012 |
2017 |
| U.S. average consumer price index (BLS) |
80 |
100.0 |
608.0 |
677.5 |
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| Average income |
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$7,305 |
$38,611 |
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| New car price |
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$2,724 |
$28,715 |
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| New house (U.S.) |
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$14,425 |
$240,000 |
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| Loaf of bread |
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$0.22 |
$3.00 |
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| Gallon of milk |
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$1.15 |
$3.50 |
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| Gold per ounce |
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$35 |
$1,000 |
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| Dow Jones Industrial Average |
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786-943 |
14,000 |
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| First class postage - letter |
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$0.05 |
$0.39 |
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| Washington State minimum wage (hourly) |
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$1.40 |
$7.63 |
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| Gasoline price per gallon (approx.) |
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$0.33 |
$2.25-$4.00 |
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| National debt (then-year $billions) |
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$344.7 |
$8,000+ |
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| City of Everett profile |
Vibrant blue-collar mill town |
City in
transition |
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| Prime lending rate |
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6.0% |
8.25% |
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| Average annual U.S. unemployment rate (BLS) |
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3.8% |
~5.1% |
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| Average annual U.S. inflation rate |
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2.8% |
~4.0% |
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| U.S. standard of living |
Rising |
Flat
or declining |
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| U.S. middle class |
Growing |
Shrinking |
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| Prevailing family income profile |
Single-income families |
Multiple-income families |
| Wages and salary trends |
Rising |
Flat
or declining |
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| World monetary standard |
Gold |
U.S.
Dollars |
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| World trade |
Protectionist, nationalistic |
Free
trade, globalization |
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1967 |
2007 |
2017 |
| Environmental Concerns |
Pollution, toxins, nuclear
fallout, etc. |
Climate change (global warming),
mass extinctions, invasive species, genetic mutations, Amazon rain
forest, clean water, etc. |
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| Public Health Issues |
Asian flu pandemic, cures for
common diseases, radioactive waste, drug use, world food supplies,
etc. |
AIDS, bird flu pandemic, West
Nile Fever, obesity, radioactive waste, healthcare system, bio-terrorism,
etc. |
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| Politics |
1955 |
1967 |
2007 |
2012 |
2017 |
| City of Everett Mayor |
Louis Unzelman |
George
Culmback |
Ray Stephanson |
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| U.S. President |
D.D.
Eisenhower |
L.B.
Johnson |
G.W. Bush |
B. Obama |
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| Washington Governor |
A.B.
Langlie |
D. J. Evans |
C. Gregoire |
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| U.S. Senators |
Jackson (D)
Magnuson (D) |
Cantwell (D)
Murray (D) |
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| Majority party in U.S. Senate |
Democrat |
Republican(1)
Split (2) |
Democrat |
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| Majority party in U.S. House of Reps. |
Republican |
Democrat |
Republican
(1)
Democrat (2) |
Republican |
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| National debt index (1967=100) |
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100 |
~2,325+ |
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| Public sentiment trends |
Post-war
and post-depression optimism, upward mobility |
Economic
optimism, upward mobility, anti-war sentiment, social upheaval |
More
pessimism, downward mobility, assault on American dream, anti-war
sentiment, distrust of government, worst President ever |
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| Wars-in-progress |
Cold War,
Arms Race |
Cold War,
Vietnam, Poverty, Space Race |
Afghanistan, Iraq, Drugs, Terror, War on Middle Class, Illegal
Immigra-tion, etc. |
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(1)
109th Congress (2005-2007)
(2) 110th Congress (2007-2009) |
Noteworthy World & National Events of 1967 |
- Thurgood Marshall
becomes the first black ever appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
- China announces it has
the H-bomb and conducts its first test blast
- France's DeGaulle
pledges to "liberate" Quebec
- LBJ and Russia's
Kosygin hold summit in Glassboro, NJ
- Race riots occurred in
100 U.S. cities
- Oswald killer, Jack
Ruby, dies of cancer
- Open rebellion against
Mao Tse Tung breaks out in China and the Red Army seizes Peking
- Stalin's daughter,
Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to the west
- US and USSR sign space
demilitarization treaty, banning orbiting nuclear weapons and
territorial claims on celestial bodies
- Detroit riots end after
8 days, 43 dead
- Newark black riots end
after 6 days, 26 dead
- US troop levels in
Vietnam increased from 300,000 to 525,000 and US suffers highest
weekly casualties of the Vietnam War; protestors make night
march to Pentagon
- Draft Board refuses
exemption for Muhammad Ali
- Ronald Reagan sworn in
as California Governor
- Anti-segregationist
Lester Maddox sworn in as Governor of Georgia
- Man said to be Boston
Strangler is recaptured after escape from mental hospital
- Dow high 943 and low
786
- Dr. Christian Barnard
performs first human heart transplant on patient who survives
nearly a year before succumbing to lung complications
- Stunning Israeli
victory in the Six-Day War with the Arab states
- Biafra secedes from
Nigeria leading to civil war
- King Constantine 11 of
Greece deposed; military junta led by Col. Papadopoulos takes
power
- British Aden becomes
independent Yemen
- Che Guevara killed in
Bolivia
- US astronauts Edward
White, Virgil Grissom & Roger Chaffee killed in fire during a
launch test
- Soviet cosmonaut
Vladimir Komarov killed landing Soyuz 1
- Francis Chichester
completes the first solo voyage around the world and is knighted
by Queen Elizabeth
- The musical "Hair"
produced
- Beatles release
"Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
- Movies first sold on
videotape
- Expo 67 held in
Montreal
- Big-screen actress and
sex-goddess Jane Mansfield decapitated in car crash
- First coronary bypass
surgery performed by Rene Favaloro at Cleveland Clinic
- George Rockwell,
founder and leader of the US Nazi Party, is shot dead by a
sniper
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| Best-selling Books in 1967 |
- The Silent Spring
- Rachel Carson
- The Games People
Play - Eric Berne
- Valley of the Dolls
- Jacqueline Susann
- In Cold Blood
- Truman Capote
- The Feminine
Mystique - Betty Friedan
- Unsafe at any Speed
- Ralph Nader
- Electric Kool-Aid
Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
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| Sports in 1967 |
- Muhammad Ali stripped
of his World Heavyweight Champion titles and banned from boxing
by the various commissions for his refusal to be inducted into
the United States Army
- St. Louis Cardinals
take the World Series, winning 4 games to 3 over the Boston Red
Sox
- Super Bowl I - NFL
champion Green Bay Packers win 35-10 over the AFL champion
Kansas City Chiefs
- UCLA takes the men's
NCAA championship, winning 79-64 over Dayton
- Philadelphia 76ers take
the NBA championship, winning 4 games to 2 over the San
Francisco Warriors
- Tour de France winner
is Roger Pingeon of France
- Mario Andretti wins the
Daytona 500
- NASCAR Championship —
Richard Petty
- Indianapolis 500 — A.J.
Foyt
- USAC Racing — A.J. Foyt
won the season championship
- Formula One Champion —
Denny Hulme of New Zealand
- 24 hours of Le Mans:
Dan Gurney / A.J. Foyt won, driving a Ford GT-40 Mk. IV
- Rally racing — Rauno
Aaltonen / Henry Liddon won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Mini
Cooper S
- Drag racing — Bennie
Osborn won "Top Fuel" at the NHRA World Finals
- Men's Tennis -- John
Newcombe wins US Open and Wimbledon
- Women's Tennis --
Billie Jean King wins US Open and Wimbledon
- Golf -- Jack Nicklaus
wins the US Open, leading money-maker wins $188,998 for year;
Don January wins the PGA Championship
- Peggy Fleming wins the
women's World Figure Skating Championship
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| Top Movies of 1967 |
- The Graduate (Dustin
Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katherine Ross)
- Bonnie & Clyde (Warren
Beaty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman)
- Cool Hand Luke (Paul
Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin)
- The Dirty Dozen (Lee
Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson)
- Camelot (Richard
Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Francis Nero)
- Guess Who's Coming to
Dinner (Spencer Tracey, Katherine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier)
- Far from the Madding
Crowd (Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp)
- You Only Live Twice
(Sean Connery, Donald Pleasance, Tetsuro Tamba, Bernard Lee)
- In the Heat of the
Night (Sidney Portier, Rod Steiger)
- Thoroughly Modern
Millie (Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing)
- The Producers (Zero
Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars)
- Belle de Jour
(Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How
I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Peter Sellers,
George C. Scott, Slim Pickins) - this is actually a 1964 movie
but it's listed here for its symbolism of the times
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| Popular TV Shows of 1967 |
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- Lassie
- Gunsmoke
- Pick-a-Box
- American Bandstand
- The Black & White Minstrel Show
- Bonanza
- The Andy Griffiths Show
- Z Cars
- My Three Sons
- Four Corners
- The Avengers
- Combat!
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- The Saint
- Petticoat Junction
- Dr. Who
- Peyton Place
- The Man from UNCLE
- Gomer Pyle, USMC
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- Mavis Bramston Show
- Bewitched
- Till Death Us Do Part
- Homicide
- Lost in Space
- Batman
- I Dream of Jeannie
- Hogan's Heroes
- Get Smart
- The Monkees
- Star Trek
- Mission Impossible
- The Flying Nun
- Ironside
- The Prisoner
- Hunter
- Mannix
- Bellbird
- This Day Tonight
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