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    • Jul 7, 1959
    Janis Joplin enrolls at Port Arthur Business College to develop clerical skills. She lasts just one month. Her version of "Me And Bobby McGee" ranks among country's 500 greatest singles in a book published by the Country Music Foundation
    Aug 7, 1959
    Janis Joplin quits Port Arthur Business College after just one month. Her version of "Me And Bobby McGee" becomes one of country's 500 greatest singles, according to the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
    Aug 20, 1959
    Bill Anderson graduates from the University of Georgia in Athens with a degree in journalism. Hours later, he moves to Nashville in a 1958 Ford "with a guitar in the backseat and a whole lot of dreams"
    Sep 10, 1959
    Priscilla Beaulieu begins attending classes in Wiesbaden, Germany. Within two weeks, she meets future husband Elvis Presley
    Mar 17, 1960
    Janis Joplin is suspended at high school in Port Arthur, Texas. She eventually gets her degree--and delivers a recording of "Me And Bobby McGee," regarded among country's 500 greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation publication
    Jun 9, 1960
    Broadway composer Cole Porter, co-writer of the 1945 country hit "Don't Fence Me In," receives an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut
    May 29, 1963
    Priscilla Beaulieu graduates from the Memphis all-girls Immaculate Conception high school. Elvis Presley has to wait outside
    Jun 11, 1963
    Brenda Lee graduates from Hollywood Professional School in California
    Jun 5, 1965
    Gram Parsons' mother, Avis Parsons, dies of alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver in Winter Haven, Florida. Her death coincides with Gram's high-school graduation
    Jun 9, 1968
    Georgetown University holds its commencement exercises, graduating future president Bill Clinton and "Take Me Home, Country Roads" songwriter Bill Danoff



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