Events of 1964

WORLD

Beatlemania hit Australia and the US.

Nelson Mandela began life imprisonment in South Africa.

Nikita Krushchev was deposed as Russian President. Kosygin became the new Presdient.

China detonated its first atomic bomb.

The US Surgeon General linked cigaretee smoking to cancer.

Pacific WWII hero Douglas Macarthur died.

Australian Roy Emerson won the Wimbledon men's singles final. Margaret Smith was defeated in the women's singles final.

Protest songs by Bob Dyland and psychaedelic songs by the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane vied for Number 1 with the Beatles.

Main movies were Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Sto Worrying and Love the Bomb, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins and Zorba the Greek.

Main books were Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast and Hubert Selby's Last Exit to Broooklyn.

AUSTRALIA

The destroyer HMAS Voyager was sunk in Jervis Bay by the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne killing 82 sailors.

National Service was reintroduced.

The Queensland Government declared a 'state of emergency' to end an industrial dispute at Mt Isa mines.

RSHS Class of 1964

In 1964

The Principal of Redcliffe State High School was Mal Justins.

The Deputy Principal was T. Dixon.

The Senior Mistress was Miss E Meehan.

There were students in the Senior class. These students sat for the external Senior examination.
The school captains were Lesley Botting and John Broadbent.

won the Swimming carnival.

Jindobarri won the Athletics carnival.

The dux of the school was Gillian McLean.

There were two senior classes : an all male class and a co-ed one.

Some of the girls went to the Beatles concert at the Festival Hall but didn't hear a lot! Unbeknowns to them, future teacher, David Lergessner, was a Yr 11 student at Kedron High at the time and was also at the concert and still has the ticket to prove it!