Humorist Jerry Harju turns his attention to "higher education" in The Class of '57 , his 1950's college years at the University of Michigan. University life then-with its 1950's attitudes on world affairs, morality, women's roles in society-was much different from today. The Class of '57 also covers Harju's engineering co-op days at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico during the earliest days of United States missile development when NOBODY was a rocket scientist.