Lewis Class of 1947
celebrates
60 years on Sunday!
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A day after the Class of ’67 reunion on Saturday, the Lewis High School Class of 1947 will hold its 60-year reunion at the Manor Inn. In honor of those Lewis grads from the “Greatest Generation,” we take a look back to the year they graduated.
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PRESIDENT: Harry S. Truman
GOVERNOR: James L. McConaughy
SHS PRINCIPAL: Martin Phelan
CLASS ADVISOR: Madeline Collins
CLASS PRESIDENT: Ralph Mann
PRICE OF GASOLINE: 23 cents/gallon
TOP RADIO SHOW: The Bob Hope Show
TOP GROSSING MOVIE: Egg & I
TOP SONG: Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, James Baskett
IN THE NEWS: Jackie Robinson takes the field at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers major-league baseball team, breaking the sport’s color barrier... American test pilot Captain Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight...Twenty one former SS Einsatz leaders go on trial before a U.S. Military Tribunal in Nuremberg.