John Adams High School Class of 1961
South Bend, Indiana, USA


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5 April 2005


The 1961 Graduation Class of John Adams High School, South Bend, Indiana

1961 Basketball Champs

Cheesburgers were 18¢ and the french fries were the best (according to Sue Adams)

They came from River Park

Nuner 1957

We won in our sophomore year and figured we would again and again....

Beginning of Little 500 Bicycle Race 1960

And again, Little Theater is winner, announced before rest of competitors finished the race. (You might recall that we won three years in a row. We didn't enter our freshman year, we were mid-term and didn't know how to ride bikes at that time.)

Jim Champaigne enters the Science Fair with an "Electronic Calculator" built with parts from pin ball machines, it presented math addition problems and allowed players to "guess" the correct answers.

This is the inside of this first modern computer, lots of wire, relays, stepping switches, bells, solenoids, rotating number wheels and no ic's or integrated circuits.
Last Revised on March 27, 2006