563     April 13, 1964 (LIVE)
Bill, Betsy, Henry, Bess

Thomas Waters from Charlottesville, Virginia and 27 young women: “We’re the freshman class of student nurses (University of Virginia)” 
Waters is the first male student nurse in the history of the university.  Today, male nurses make up a little less than ten percent of the profession.  That’s still a significant minority, but nowhere close to the novelty that it was in 1964.   

Roberta Trias, Myron Stevens and Tad Colbert from Phoenix, Arizona.  Roberta’s secret: “I teach them judo and karate”                 
16-year-old Roberta teaches at her father’s Bob Trias International Institute of Karate and Judo, the first karate school in the US.  She teaches not just these two, but many other male students as well.  Last summer, at the first World Karate Tournament (organized by her pioneering father), Trias finished second out of 79 black belts who competed.  Trias and her students demonstrate their skills.   

Special guest Suzy Parker is on a living room set: “There are no bulbs in the lamps – the shades light up…The blinds, pillows, table and picture frame light up too…So does my dress” The thin strips of electroluminescent light used here were developed by Sylvania and marketed to the public under the trade name Panelescent.  As a relatively new lighting technique, the demonstration of it here dazzles the panel.  The major original uses for EL light were for night lights and backlights for car dashboards, and those remain two of the most common uses today.  As technology has improved, billboards and computer monitors now use EL light for their displays.