wh school 1983

The Sixties
The end of the fifties brought the
Russian Sputnik and the Cuban missile
crisis. The start of the sixties was not
much better. The Civil Rights Movement
made a major impression with
the stirring voices of Martin Luther
King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Almost immediately
the nation was shocked by the
original "good die young” period as
they watched President John Kennedy,
Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther
King all die by the hands of assassins.
The nation boomed economically
even while it was led into another
southeast Asian war. There were many
anti-war movements which became
more important than the civil rights
movement. The younger generation
was affected most directly due to
drafts and they developed slogans to
try to stop the war and to express
their new outlook, usually with the
general phrasing of "make love not
war.”
The younger generation was also
greatly influenced by the Beatles and
other rock groups. This period also
saw a "sexual revolution” which produced
real benefits towards the end of
the decade with the start of the women’s
rights movement. With all the riots
and problems in domestic life, science
was able to make a major breakthrough.
First, a man was able to orbit
around the earth, and then three
American astronauts became the first
men to walk on the moon. Considering
all that occurred during this decade, it
is truly one of the most explosive in
our history.
Through the 1960’s, Wardlaw and
Hartridge each experienced a continuing
growth and fostered their traditionally
high academic standards. This
is evidenced at Wardlaw by the ever
expanding faculty and the paucity of
students making the first honor roll.
The early prosperity of the decade bolstered
support for building a new
school, and Mr. Horne’s project
"Lamplight” was born. This ambitious
plan reached its fruition when then
New Jersey Governor Richard Hughes
and Dr. Mason Gross, former president
of Rutgers Univeristy, were the
principal speakers at the dedicaiton of
the new Inman Avenue building in September,
1969. At the same time, the
Wardlaw enrollment continued its
growth to new all-time highs.
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W A R S A W COUNTRY
S C H O O L
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White college students picket in Washington,
D.D., in I960.
A lapel button (top) announces an antidraft slogan.
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