Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yearbook of Connecticut's elite Chaffee School predicted that Ella Rosa Giovanna Oliva Tambussi, the Italian immigrants' daughter who was there on scholarship, would become the first woman mayor of her home town, Windsor Locks, Conn. That was much too modest a forecast. As a young wife and mother, with a Phi Beta Kappa key and M.A. in economics from Mount Holyoke, Ella Grasso was elected to the state assembly in 1952. Captivated by her drive and political savvy, Democratic Boss John Bailey took her on as a speechwriter and adviser. Bailey once told her, she recalls, that "the only...
Also expensive were the game scorecards, for only in Oakland must one buy the team yearbook, filled with pictures of the A's mustaches, to get the scorecard...
...Harvard Yearbook Publications...
First Decline. The supply of pulpits is becoming tight because, while seminary enrollments are holding steady, Protestant church membership is shrinking. The latest edition of the authoritative Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches reports that U.S. membership in religious bodies slipped last year to 131,245,139. Though the decline was slight (about 180,000), it was the first that the Yearbook has recorded in nearly three decades, and reflected eroding membership in the mainstream liberal Protestant denominations: the United Methodists, Episcopalians, United Presbyterians, the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). In such groups, jobs...
...begun, "there were a few Communists around, they would arrive very early in the morning and put literature in people's mailboxes," says Fleming, making an effort to remember. Politics were not a big issue, and they were especially not so for Radcliffe women: the 1950 Yearbook gushed about the few political clubs, "through them girls are kept in touch with the hard cruel world...