1964
1966
2nd Vatican Council closed.
Pope Paul VI (1897-1978) became the 1st Pope to visit the Western Hemisphere. He also proclaimed Jews not collectively guilty for the Crucifixion of Jesus.
Beatification of Saint Charbel Makhlouf (1828-98).
Translation of the relics of Saint John Baptist Rossi (1698-1764).
Max
von Sydow (born April 10, 1929, in Lund, Skane Ian, Sweden-) played Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told. He began as a Seedish actor in Ingmar Bergman's films, starring in The Magician & The 7th Seal
Bob Dylan (1941-) became the rage in popular music
with his song, Like a Rolling Stone-
and the surrealistic poetry of his album, Highway 61 Revisited.
Dylan stunned the audiences at the Newport Folk Festival
when he came on
stage with a rock-and-roll ensemble,
and started playing electric
guitar. He was almost booed off the stage.
Griswold vs Connecticut, right to privacy, US Supreme Court decision.
Deaths:
David O. Selznick, movie producer.
Thomas Stearns "T.S." Eliot, poet.
William Somerset Maugham, playwright and novellist.
January-
Bob Gray returned to ASU, having been reinstated on academic probation, and lived in Irish Hall C wing with his roommate, Joe Stephens.
Bob took Introduction to Oil Painting, American Literature, and a Life Drawing
class. One of the models
brought in a new album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention Suzie
Creamchese, What's Happening, Baby?
Bobby flunked Anthropology.
The new Grady Gammage Auditorium opened with West Side Story starring
Ron Druse's brother as Tony. Fereydoun Ave was in a Shakespeare play, and
had an apartment near Cosner Auditorium.
February-
Bob Gray Sr. took his family to The Sound of Music movie, starring Julie
Andrews as Maria. When it opened in Phoenix, Bobby met the family at the theatre.
2: Vincent Gray's 17th birthday.
27: Bobby Gray's 20th birthday; Sara Louise Gray's 12th birthday.
March-
Robert E. Lucey, Archbishop of San Antonio, TX, gave the invocation at the inauguration of President Lyndon Baines Johnson in Washington, DC.
3: Ash Wednesday.
7: Terry Gray's 2nd birthday.
11: Memorial Grandpa Rob Gray (1896-1963) 's (69th) birthday.
22: Timothy Gray (1956-) 's 9th birthday.
April-
18: Easter.
29: Daniel
O'Connor
was born.
May-
Bob Dylan toured England.
7: Thomas Gray (1967-) 's 8th birthday.
Simon and Garfunkel from New York City become popular with the surrealist song,
The Sound of Silence;
Bobby Gray worked for Bob and Dorothy Ballard at the new restaurant of the Mission Inn, called
The Charcoal Room. He took over the management of the motel when they
went on a weekend vacation.
Bob got a job on the assembly line at the new Emerson Electric plant by the Prescott
Airport. He told David Salazar and Frank Brambila and they got on the night
shift.
June-
14: Grandma Sadie Gray's 69th birthday.
Cecilia drove from Manhattan, Kansas, to East St. Louis, Illinois, and picked up her
Grandma Gray and brought her to Prescott, Arizona for a visit.
Glenna (Claussen) Weber graduated from SIU Edwardsville.
Father Hargraves helped Glenna
get an annulment of her marriage to Bob Blair.
Her parents, Marian and Glen Claussen had their marriage
solemnized at the Catholic Church in Columbia, IL.
18: Dale Glen Claussen was 13 today.
22: Cletus was adopted by Paul and Linda
Winkelmann.
27: Brian Gray (1969-) 's 6th birthday.
July-
12: Jerry Nieman (1945-) 's 20th birthday.
17: Cecilia Gray (1942-) 's 23rd birthday.
Glenna (Claussen) Blair married Bill
Weber in a
civil ceremony.
.
Bob Gray started dating Diane Zabriskie, and they went to dances at Yavapai
County Youth Center, where a local band called the Shekels
played Beatles songs and other pop tunes. Ray Hopf, and the Conrad brothers,
Francisco "Checko" and Nick, all from St. Joseph's Academy, were members of the
band. Cathy Shumway was dating one of the Hopf brothers, and Frank Brambila was
dating Margaret Rodarte.
25: Pope Paul VI spoke at the United Nations in NYC.
August-
3: Sandor Shawn Niemann was born to Bill and Pat (Parker) Niemann, in Tucson,
Arizona.
30: Ceil and Bob Gray's 24th wedding anniversary.
September-
Cecilia Gray returned to San Antonio, Texas and worked as a substitute teacher for 6 months.
Brian Gray went to first grade at Lincoln School. He got upset and kicked and bit the
teacher. Tim was in fourth grade, Tom was in third, and Sara Gray, in seventh grade were students at Sacred Heart school.
Bob Gray Jr. continued working at Emerson Electric and did not return to ASU. He went to
games with Diane Zabriskie and Patricia Rodarte, Margaret's sister, and had a car accident wuth
his brothers in the back seat. His dad, Bob, sent him home to pick up the kids and bring them to the Hassayasmpa
Country Club. He ran into a tree with the Plymouth station wagon near the driveway of the house on Norris Rd.
The boys had stitches.
11: Ceil Gray's 45th birthday.
The Beatles made their second movie, Help!!
Bob Gray painted a faceless Crucifixion of Joe on a telephone pole, with
guitar, and gray sweatshirts of Bob Dylan and Sonny and Cher.
October-
1: Christine Marie Gray (1961-) 's 4th birthday, Prescott, Arizona;
Ken Halbrook's 11th birthday, East St. Louis, IL.
18-year-old P.F. Sloan wrote
...You don't believe, we're on the Eve of Destruction...
, song, sung by Barry McGuire...
protest
song trend continues, and folk-rock became a form of social protest.
8: Grandma Sadie Belle (Flood)
Gray
died in East Saint Louis.
Cecilia Gray came to the funeral from San Antonio, Texas, and
joined her dad, Bob Gray. Ceil, his wife, stayed home with all the children.
November-
Sonny and Cher released their first album, and their song,
I Got You Babe sold 3 million copies in 3 weeks.
The Byrds did a Rock version of Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man- and
The Turtles group sang Dylan's It Ain't Me, Babe.
Cher also released a solo album and sang some folk-rock, doing It Ain't Me,
Babe, and All I Really Want to Do.
Van Morrison and Them sang Here Comes the Night and Gloria.
2: Norman Morrison set himself aflame to protest the Vietnam War, in front
of McNamara's office at the Pentagon, during rush hour.
December-
4: Bob Gray's 48th birthday.
8: End of Vatican II.
The Congregation of the Holy Office (Inquisition) had
its name changed to The Sacred Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.
Bucky Flynn had a Christmas party and introduced the partygoers to the Beatles'
new album, Rubber Soul.
Pat and Bill Niemann, USAF, who was stationed in Tucson, brought their new son, Sandor Shawn,
to Prescott to see Bill's Godmother, Ceil, and the Gray Family in Prescott.
24: There was a fire at Saint Philip's Church in East Saint Louis, IL.
Darlene (Gray) Roush saw the steeple burning.
Bobby Gray bought colorful sweatshirts for his brothers and gifts for the family.
Donovan sangs Catch the Wind.
Cecilia Gray wrote her master's thesis on
Older sisters as role models.
Before she obtained her master's degree at Manhattan,
Kansas, she was hired to teach at Sacramento State University, CA., now CSUS. But first,
she returned to teach at Cullman, Alabama.
Donovan Leitch sang Catch the Wind.