Ithaca College Quarterly, 1999/Vol 1

What We Were up to in . . . 1964

 

On Campus

Student population: 1,045 men, 729 women

Annual tuition: $1,700

South Hill campus is growing, with 10 dorms, the union, the health center, Friends Hall, the science building (now Williams Hall), and Hill Center.

Loaf of bread: $0.19Under construction: Ford Hall, the library, Muller Center, the East Tower for women and West Tower for men

Events: Rosedance, Winter Weekend, Christmas Ball, Sweethearts’ Ball. Inter-Fraternity Council Weekend features skiing, ice skating, casino night, miniature golf, games. Spring Week-end [left] features dances and a parade.

Student organizations: Twenty-two, including Student Council, Women’s Student Government, Men’s Student Government, Wives’ Club (for the wives of male students)

Average annuall personal income: $2,558Sports: Only intercollegiate cheerleading and gymnastics are open to women. Varsity baseball has a 16-3 record, varsity football 6-2. Varsity soccer achieves its most successful record, 9-2, in IC’s 32-year history of the sport.

Theater: The Glass Menagerie, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, Tonight We Improvise, The Boyfriend

News: Robert F. Kennedy campaigns in Ithaca for the U.S. Senate.


On the Tube


Bewitched
The Ed Sullivan Show Leave It to Beaver
The Dick Van Dyke Show


On the Screen

Oscars: My Fair Lady wins for best picture, best director (George Cukor), and best actor (Rex Harrison). Julie Andrews wins best actress for Mary Poppins.

In the Headlines

Ford Mustang is introducedat a price of about $2,500.

New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadow, Queens, features 140 pavilions.

Lyndon B. Johnson is elected president with largest plurality in history.

Nightclub owner Jack Ruby is convicted of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, and sentenced to death.

By July U.S. casualties in South Vietnam have risen to 1,387 since December 1961.

Martin Luther King Jr. (right), activist and civil rights leader, receives Nobel Peace Prize.

Civil Rights Act is passed by Congress, outlawing employment discrimination on basis of race, religion, ethnicity, or gender.

Fifty-seven East Germans crawl to freedom through a tunnel in the Berlin Wall.

Martial law is declared in Seoul, South Korea, after 10,000 students demand an apology for government
corruption and abuse of power.


Popular Tunes

"She Loves You," the Beatles
"I Want to Hold Your Hand," the Beatles
"Hello, Dolly," Louis Armstrong
"Pretty Woman," Roy Orbison
"I Get Around," the Beach Boys
"Everybody Loves Somebody," Dean Martin


Sports

The Saint Louis Cardinals defeat the New York Yankees, 4–3, in the World Series.
The 18th Olympic Games are held in Tokyo.


. . . the Pages

Fiction best-sellers: The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré, Armageddon by Leon Uris, Julian by Gore Vidal

Nonfiction best-sellers: The Kennedy Wit by Bill Adler, Harlow by Irving Shulman, Reminiscences by Douglas MacArthur, My Autobiography by Charlie Chaplin

Compiled by Jennifer Reardon '99


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