Welcome to any visitors from the St. Stanislaus Kostka Class of 1965. If you read the postings in this blog you will find that my brother's life changed significantly since his days at St. Stan's - but I'm sure that the same can be said about you and your life.
You will also notice that the majority of information contained within the blog is from Bill's life for his 20s to his 50s. This is due to our 10 year age difference. But, with your help, I hope to fill in this gap. So, if you have any memories of Bill (you probably knew him as Billy), including photo's or maybe an entry in your graduation autograph book, please share them. You can either send an email to big.bukowski@yahoo.com or complete the
Share A Memory form on the upper left of this page.
Thanks in advance for you participation.
Below are some of the memorabilia I have from Bill's days at St. Stan's.
Here are a few entries from Bill's Graduation Autograph book, along with questions and/or comments.
It seems that Jackie had the bull part of Bill figured out at an early age. Can anyone tell me anymore about these two?
What is the Conservation Of Amphibious Creatures and what type of Ambassodor was Bill?
Well, it seems that even after 42 years no one risen to take up Roseann on her challenge.
SONGS FROM 1965In 1965, whether you were listening to the
WMCA Good Guys (Harry Harrison, Jack Spector, Dan Daniel, etc) or
WABC (Scott Muni, Cousing Brucie, Dan Ingram, etc.),, you heard the following songs. For instructions on how to listen to all music shared on this blog,
click here.
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction [The Rolling Stones]I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) [The Four Tops]Wooly Bully [Sam The Sham and the Pharoahs]My Girl [The Temptations]You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling [The Righteous Brothers]Downtown [Petula Clark]Can't You Hear My Heartbeat [Herman's Hermits]Crying In The Chapel [Elvis Presley]I Got You Babe [Sonny & Cher]The Birds and The Bees [Jewel Akens]IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE 1964-1965 SCHOOL YEARSeptember 14 - The third period of Second Vatican Council opens.
September 16 - Shindig! premieres live on the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), featuring the top musical acts of the Sixties.
September 24 - The Warren Commission Report, the first official investigation of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, is published.
October 1 - Three thousand student activists at University of California, Berkeley surround and block a police car from taking a CORE volunteer arrested for not showing his ID when he violated a ban on outdoor activist card tables. This protest eventually explodes into the Berkeley Free Speech Movement.
October 2 - The Kinks release their first album, The Kinks (album).
October 5 - Twenty-three men and thirty-one women escape to West Berlin through a narrow tunnel under the Berlin Wall.
October 10 - The 1964 Summer Olympics begin in Tokyo.
October 12 - The Soviet Union launches Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits. The flight is cut short and lands again on October 13 after sixteen orbits.
October 14 - American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded to him for leading non-violent resistance to end racial prejudice in the United States.
October 15 - Nikita Khrushchev is deposed as leader of the Soviet Union; Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin assume power.
October 15 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the visiting New York Yankees, 7-5 to win the World Series in seven games (4-3), ending a long run of 29 World Series appearances in 44 seasons for the Bronx Bombers (also known as the Yankee Dynasty).
October 16 - Harold Wilson becomes British Prime Minister.
October 16 - The People's Republic of China explodes an atomic bomb in Sinkiang.
October 18 - The NY World's Fair closes for the year (it will reopen April 21, 1965).
October 20 - Former United States President Herbert Hoover dies in New York City.
October 27 - In Congo, rebel leader Christopher Gbenye takes 60 Americans and 800 Belgians hostage.
October 29 - A collection of irreplaceable gemstones, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
October 31 - Campaigning at Madison Square Garden, New York, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson pledges the creation of the Great Society.
November 1 - Mortar fire from North Vietnamese forces rains on the USAF base at Bien Hoa, South Vietnam, killing 4 U.S. servicemen, wounding 72, and destroying 5 B-57 jet bombers and other planes.
November 3 - U.S. presidential election, 1964: Incumbent U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Republican challenger Barry Goldwater with over 60 percent of the popular vote.
November 5 - Mariner program: Mariner 3, a U.S. space probe intended for Mars, is launched from Cape Kennedy but fails.
November 9 - The British House of Commons votes to abolish the death penalty for murder in Britain.
November 13 - Bob Pettit (St. Louis Hawks) becomes the first NBA player to score 20,000 points.
November 19 - The United States Department of Defense announces the closing of 95 military bases and facilities, including the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and Fort Jay, New York.
November 21 - Second Vatican Council: The third period of the Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes.
November 21 - The Verrazano Narrows Bridge opens to traffic (the world's longest suspension bridge at this time).
November 28 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 space probe from Cape Kennedy toward Mars to take television pictures of that planet in July 1965.
November 28 - Vietnam War: United States National Security Council members, including Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, and Maxwell Taylor, agree to recommend a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam, to President Lyndon B. Johnson.
December 1 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam (after some debate, they agree to enact a two-phase bombing plan).
December 3 - Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and massive sit-in at the administration building, protesting the U.C. Regents' decision to forbid Vietnam War protests on U.C. property.
December 6 - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (television special) premieres on NBC. It will become a beloved Christmas tradition, still being shown on television more than 40 years later.
December 10 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.
December 14 - Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (379 US 241 1964): The U.S. Supreme Court rules that, in accordance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, establishments providing public accommodations must refrain from racial discrimination.
December 21 - Goldfinger was shown in US theaters.
December 22 - Comedian Lenny Bruce is sentenced to four months in prison, concluding a six-month obscenity trial.
December 23 - Wonderful Radio London commences transmissions with American top 40 format broadcasting, from a ship anchored off the south coast of England.
January 1 - United states coinage no longer uses silver in the coins; instead, they use a cupronickel clad, except for the Kennedy half dollar. The ship S.S. Catala is driven onto the beach in Ocean Shores, Washington, stranding her.
January 4 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union Address.
January 12 - Wanda Beach Murders: The bodies of two 15 year olds, Christine Sharrock
and Marrine Schmidt, are found at Wanda Beach, Sydney.
January 19 - The unmanned Gemini 2 is launched on a suborbital test of various spacecraft systems.
January 20 - Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for his own full term as U.S. President.
January 24 - Winston Churchill dies at the age of 90, as the result of a stroke he suffered on January 15.
February 7 - The U.S. begins the regular bombing of North Vietnamese towns and villages.
February 15 - A new red and white maple leaf design is inaugurated as the flag of Canada, replacing the Union Flag and the Canadian Red Ensign.
February 20 - Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon, after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
February 21 - Malcolm X is assassinated on the first day of National Brotherhood Week, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City, thought to be by Black Muslims.
March 7 - Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama: Some 200 Alabama State Troopers attack 525 civil rights demonstrators.
March 8 - Vietnam War: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam.
March 9 - The second attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., stops at the bridge that was the site of Bloody Sunday, to hold a prayer service and return to Selma, in obedience to a court restraining order. White supremacists beat up white Unitarian Universalist minister James J. Reeb later that day in Selma.
March 11 - White Unitarian Universalist minister James J. Reeb, beaten by White supremacists in Selma, Alabama on March 9 following the second march from Selma, dies in a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.
March 16 - Police attack 600 SNCC marchers in Montgomery, Alabama.
March 17 - In Montgomery, Alabama, 1,600 civil rights marchers demonstrate at the Courthouse.
March 17 - In response to the events of March 7 and 9 in Selma, Alabama, President Johnson sends a bill to Congress that forms the basis for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It will be passed by the Senate May 26, the House July 10, and signed into law by President Johnson Aug. 6.
March 18 - Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
March 18 - A U.S. federal judge rules that SCLC has the lawful right to march to Montgomery, Alabama to petition for 'redress of grievances'.
March 21 - Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
March 21 - Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 Civil rights activists in the third march from Selma, Alabama to the capitol in Montgomery.
March 23 - Gemini 3: NASA launches the United States' first 2-person crew (Gus Grissom, John Young) into Earth orbit.
March 24 - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organizes the first teach-in against the Vietnam War, with 2,500 participants, at the University of Michigan.
March 25 - Martin Luther King, Jr. and 25,000 civil rights activists successfully end the 4-day march from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol in Montgomery. Four Klansmen shoot and kill Detroit homemaker Viola Liuzzo as she drives marchers back to Selma at night after the march.
April 5 - Vittorio De Sica is awarded the Academy Award for his movie Ieri, oggi e domani.
April 6 - The Early Bird communications satellite is launched. It becomes operational May 2 and is placed in commercial service in June.
April 9 - The West German parliament extends the statute of limitations on Nazi war crimes.
April 9 - In Houston, Texas, the Harris County Domed Stadium (more commonly known as the Astrodome) opens.
April 11 - The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: An estimated 51 tornadoes (47 confirmed) hit in 6 Midwestern states, killing between 256 to 271 people and injuring some 1,500 more.
April 17 - The first SDS march against the Vietnam War draws 25,000 protestors to Washington, DC.
April 21 - The NY World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, NY, reopens.
April 28 - U.S. troops are sent to the Dominican Republic by President Lyndon B. Johnson, "for the stated purpose of protecting U.S. citizens and preventing an alleged Communist takeover of the country", thus thwarting the possibility of "another Cuba".
April 28 - Vietnam War: Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies announces that the country will substantially increase its number of troops in South Vietnam, supposedly at the request of the Saigon government, although it is later revealed that Menzies had asked the leadership in Saigon to send the request at the behest of the Americans.
April 29 - Australia announces that it is sending an infantry battalion to support the South Vietnam government.
May 5 - The first draft card burnings take place at the University of California, Berkeley, and a coffin is marched to the Berkeley Draft Board.
May 12 - West Germany and Israel establish diplomatic relations.
May 21 - The largest teach-in to date begins at Berkeley, California, attended by 30,000. The next day, several hundred participants again march to the Draft Board and burn more cards, and Lyndon Johnson in effigy.
June 1 - Explosion in a coal mine in Fukuoka, Japan kills 237.
June 2 - Vietnam War: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam.
June 3 - Gemini 4: Astronaut Edward Higgins White makes the first U.S. space walk.
June 7 - A mining accident in Kakanji, Bosnia and Herzegovina, results in 128 deaths.
June 10 - Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins - About 1,500 Vietcong mount a mortar attack on Dong Xoai, overrunning its military headquarters and the adjoining militia compound.
June 16 - A planned anti-war protest at The Pentagon becomes a teach-in, with demonstrators distributing 50,000 leaflets in and around the building.
June 23 - St. Stanislaus Kostka Class of 1965 graduates!
