Although The Flowering Peach by Clifford Odets was the preferred choice of the Pulitzer Prize jury in 1955 and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was at first considered the weakest of the five shortlisted nominees, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., chairman of the Board, had seen Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and thought it worthy of the drama prize.

In 1955, the Alabaster Water and Gas Board was formed.

On June 25, 1955, largely the result of the recent Brown v. Board of Education ruling, Hoxie's superintendent, Kunkel Edward Vance, spearheaded plans to integrate the schools, and he received the unanimous support of Hoxie's school board.

While the first African American official gained office in 2007 ( Jaye Sims ), Freehold was one of the centers of African American civil rights activity in New Jersey during the years leading up to the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1955.

In 1955, the Sevier County Board of Education purchased the Pittman School, and the school was combined with the Pi Beta Phi High School in Gatlinburg to form Gatlinburg-Pittman High School in 1963.

From 1911 to 1955, the race was organized under the auspices of the AAA Contest Board.

Following the 1955 Le Mans disaster, AAA dissolved the Contest Board to concentrate on its membership program aimed at the general motoring public.

The governance of the museum is the responsibility of a Board of Trustees, originally established by the Imperial War Museum Act 1920, later amended by the Imperial War Museum Act 1955 and the Museums and Galleries Act 1992 and other relevant legislation.

* Nita Ing ( born 1955 ), Taiwanese executive and the former Chairman of the Board of the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation

The National Film Board of Canada documentary " Prairie University " ( 1955 ) directed by John Feeney explores diverse research activities at the University of Saskatchewan on agriculture, medicine, and ice cream.

The U. S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ( 1954 ); Powell v. Alabama ( 1932 ); Smith v. Allwright ( 1944 ); Shelley v. Kraemer ( 1948 ); Sweatt v. Painter ( 1950 ); and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents ( 1950 ) led to a shift in tactics, and from 1955 to 1965, " direct action " was the strategy — primarily bus boycotts, sit-ins, freedom rides, and social movements.

The legal climate for school prayer in the US began to change in 1955, when the New York Board of Regents developed a prayer recommended ( but not required ) for the school districts under its purview.

Harold Stirling Vanderbilt was chairman of the Board of Trust between 1955 and 1968 when racial integration was a prominent topic at the school.

The College Board, a non-profit organization based in New York City, has run the AP program since 1955.

At age sixty-eight, he was elected governor of South Carolina, serving from 1951 to 1955, in which capacity he vigorously criticized the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

One category on the Revlon Category Board was " Jazz ", and within months of the premiere Columbia Records issued a 1955 album of various jazz artists under the tie-in title $ 64, 000 Jazz ( CL 777, also EP B-777 ), with the following tracks: " The Shrike " ( Pete Rugolo ), " Perdido " ( J. J. Johnson, Kai Winding ), " Laura " ( Erroll Garner ), " Honeysuckle Rose " ( Benny Goodman ), " Tawny " ( Woody Herman ), " One O ' Clock Jump " ( Harry James ), " How Hi the Fi " ( Buck Clayton ), " I'm Comin ', Virginia " ( Eddie Condon ), " A Fine Romance " ( Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond ), " I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart " ( Duke Ellington ) and " Ain't Misbehavin '" ( Louis Armstrong ).

Despite this initial breakthrough, however, full desegregation of the schools was a far cry from reality in Nashville in the mid 1950s, and thus 22 plaintiffs, including black student Robert Kelley, filed suit against the Nashville Board of Education in 1955.

He relocated to the Pittsburgh suburb of Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania in 1955 after accepting the Chairmanship of the Board of Trustees of the Mellon Institute as well as a position on the board of directors of Gulf Oil Corporation among others.

He also served as the first Chairman of the Medical Board of the Clinical Center ( 1953 – 1955 ) and was concurrently instructor and then assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1944 to 1961.

He received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1950, his masters in 1953 and his doctorate in 1955, and did postgraduate work with the State Plant Board in Gainesville, Florida After a brief stint as assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, he returned to Cornell University where he remained until retirement.

In 1955 an agreement with the Mid & South East Cheshire Water Board secured the canal's future.

In 1955 the Mid & South East Cheshire Water Board agreed to maintain the canal securing its future.

In response to the St. Francis Dam disaster, California Legislature created a dam safety program in 1929 and the California Department of Water Resources was created in 1956 by Governor Goodwin Knight following severe flooding across Northern California in 1955, combining the Division of Water Resources of the Department of Public Works with the State Engineer's Office, the Water Project Authority, and the State Water Resources Board.

Following studies at the Naval War College in 1955 – 56, he served in Washington, D. C., with the Ship Characteristics Board.

* Cyril Fox, Offa's Dyke: a Field Survey of the Western Frontier Works of Mercia in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries AD, ( London, 1955 )

* ENIAC specifications from Ballistic Research Laboratories Report No. 971 December 1955, ( A Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems )

Survey methodology included visiting each property identified as built prior to 1955.

References: Washington Geologic Survey Bulletin No. 3 by George Watkin Evans ( 1912 ); Washington State Coal Mine Inspector Reports ( 1887 – 1975 ); Ravensdale Reflections by Barbara Nilson ( copyright 2004 ; Washington State Place Names by James Phillips ( 1972 ); Voice of the Valley newspaper ( December 16, 2008 page 8 ); State of Washington Fatal Accident Report for 1955 by C. R.

The land south of the Foscote Private Hospital in Calthorpe and Easington farm were mostly open farmland until the early 1960s as shown by the Ordnance Survey maps of 1964, 1955 and 1947.

* Fox, Sir Cyril ( 1955 ): Offa ’ s Dyke: A Field Survey of the Western Frontier-works of Mercia in the Seventh and Eighth centuries.

Planning for Metro began with the Mass Transportation Survey in 1955 which attempted to forecast both freeway and mass transit systems sufficient to meet the needs of 1980.

Planning for Metro began with the Mass Transportation Survey in 1955 which attempted to forecast both freeway and mass transit systems sufficient to meet the needs of transportation in 1980.

Planning for Metro began with the Mass Transportation Survey in 1955 which attempted to forecast both freeway and mass transit systems sufficient to meet the needs of 1980.

Planning for Metro began with the Mass Transportation Survey in 1955 which attempted to forecast both freeway and mass transit systems sufficient to meet the needs of the region projected for 1980.

Planning for Metro began with the Mass Transportation Survey in 1955 which attempted to forecast both freeway and mass transit systems sufficient to meet the needs of the region projected for 1980.

In 1955 two geologists of the Geological Survey of Canada, N. J. McMillan and Souther, traversed the interior as part of Operation Franklin.

Huts built by the expedition are gone, although a cairn remains, along with a refuge hut built by Argentina in 1955, and a cross commemorating three members of the British Antarctic Survey who died in a 1982 attempt to cross the sea ice from Faraday Station to Petermann.

In 1955, the Mass Transportation Survey attempted to forecast both freeway and mass transit systems sufficient to meet the needs of the Washington area in the year 1980.

It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from air photos by US Navy Squadron VX-6, 1960 – 62, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Commander Gordon K. Ebbe, commanding officer of Squadron VX-6 from June 1955 to June 1956.

In 1955 B K Thapar on behalf of Archaeological Survey of India excavated site near confluence of Tapti River and Gomai River.

A Board of Survey, under the chairmanship of Lord Rusholme, prepared the report, which was published in April 1955.

* The Radiac Survey Meter No 2 or RSM was a 1955 meter which counted the particles produced by radioactive decay.

The station of the British Antarctic Survey consisted of a hut and was occupied from February 27, 1955 until January 10, 1958.

Danco Island was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from the Norsel in 1955, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee for Emile Danco ( 1869 – 1898 ), a Belgian geophysicist and member of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, who died on board the Belgica in the Antarctic.

Surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey ( FIDS ) in 1955.

When the coast was resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955, two rocky points were found in approximately that location ; the name Biscoe Point has been applied to the more prominent of the two.

Humble Island was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey ( FIDS ) in 1955.

Norsel Point was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey ( FIDS ) in 1955.