UWF Events

• Chamber’s “college committee” petitions Board of Control to convert PJC to a four-year institution
• Board establishes campus “site selection” criteria which includes “1000-acre stipulation

World Events

• Interstate Highway Act passes
• President Dwight Eisenhower re-elected
• Elvis Presley appears on Ed Sullivan Show
• Ampex builds a practical videotape recorder
• Nobel prize in physics awarded to inventors of transistor
• James Dean stars in Giant
• Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier
• Ringling Bros/Barnum & Bailey circus performs last show under canvas
• Yankees beat Dodgers in the World Series featuring Don Larson’s perfect game