Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been falsely rumored this fall that no Miss Radcliffe has ever been graduated from the College. The first four Miss'Cliffes did receive their degrees, and all four are now married. Helen Clark, the first winner, was selected class night chairman for her commencement week. According to the Radcliffe Yearbook of '52, "commencement posts are honorary, based upon election of the five members who have contributed the most top the College during their four years...
Church membership in the U.S. reached a record 100,162,529 in 1955-a gain of 2,679,918 over the previous year-according to the Yearbook of American Churches. Thus 60.9% of U.S. citizens are now affiliated with religious bodies as compared with 57% in 1950, 36% in 1900. Denominational breakdown: 58,448,567 Protestants, 33,396,647 Roman Catholics, 5,500,000 Jews, 2.386,945 Eastern Orthodox, 367,370 Old Catholics and Polish National Catholics, and 63,000 Buddhists...
...University of Washington he studied law, played second base for a team that won three regional championships and toured Japan. After graduation he opened a law practice and met a Pittsburgh girl named Evelyn Baker, who, while visiting in Seattle, had spotted his picture in the university yearbook and remarked, "Look at that beautiful smile." One of Art's Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity brothers arranged a blind date. Result (three years later): matrimony...
...called him "Seaweed." Yoshio Osawa pinned the nickname on himself, because whenever he was asked about the exotic tidbits he was often seen munching, he invariably made a kelpish response (actually the goodies were tiny ricecakes sent from Japan by his mother). Gregarious Seaweed won mentions in the senior-yearbook voting for the lad having the Biggest Drag with Faculty and being the Most Frequent Weekender, ran third in the Finest Legs category. After graduating, Osawa went back to his homeland, prospered as a businessman, headed a movie company during World War II. He thrice topped all his classmates...
...Yearbook has not announced a new method to photograph freshmen...