Buena High School - Conquistador Yearbook (Ventura, CA)

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Cmon Lets Buifcf This Buffdog Stadium! MANY HAVE INDICATED A DESIRE TO CONTRIBUTE TO STADIUM FUND. TO GIVE TO THIS FUND DONATE TO HANK ERTMAN, DI- ANE HARRIMAN, OR DIRECTLYTO: HOME FEDERAL Accounmlt 5-f2027mlUJ02775Di5 1761 S. Victoria Ave., Ventura, CA About 200 people showed up at Buena High Saturday to partici- pate inthe school's walkathon, an event that officially opened afund- raising effort toward the construc- tion of an athletic stadium at the school. Participants, including Vi- etnam veteran Bob Weiland of wa, who lost his legs in So the legless hero who once bench pressed 507 pounds at a 221 pound body weight the now weighs a still hulk- ing 1651 set forth to find a new challenge. l jumped out of my wheelchair one day and took a lap around the track on my arms and it was a great workout, Weiland recalls. battle, walked a mile around the school track. Also on hand was former National Football League coach George Allen. The pro- posed 51.5 million stadium would be used for Buena athletic events, graduation, Special Olympic competition, marching band com- petition and concerts. Weiland's road to the NYC Marathon began in April of 1981 when the United States Powerlift- ing Association banned him from its champion- ships and disallowed his four world records on the technicality that he was not wearing shoes when he set them. No matter that he wasn't wearing feet, either. Paraphrased!Thanks Star free Press l'Sruo'1,'l3l5vu.1a.rd- 1. Mr. lVlcAleney runs his laps for stadium. 2. Olgy ooo olgy tear lr up on field. 3. Cheerleaders carry spirit everywhere. 4. ,f Tim and Mark tell Jeff about Football. 5. Q W M' Gary Tuttle shows track a new record 6. 3 K9 ,4 -5 l I ii E:-.xl I Coach George Allens pushes himself to 51. 1 . I ' liiilll A ' I , N. limit for new stadium at Buena. 7. Stu- I. ff A.. - '- - mf, '7 S 1, J4 H o XL , .I -V .1-Lu! . . ' N 1 A . . MX A Ex R 5 X X if . V . . - ml? D 59 dents strut. 8 lVlelanie's. .Gone Wlth The -1 I , .. .. use -U ' ' YO S xp Wind. afvfff

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1. Legless Vietnam Vet., Bob Weiland, does his part in the Buena Walk-a-thon for a new stadium. 2. Steve Brooks Jr. at Buena gives brother Kevin ,4, a ride as he does his walk. 3. lVlr. Vaughan shows spirit for new stadium. 4. Football teammates shows their stuff. 5. On your mark, get set .... , go!! 6. Brian thinks he's badl 7. McFadden, Scooter, Seay runforstadium. 8. Spike conf gratulates Bob and Georgel Allen on there finish for the' Buena High stadium run. 9. Buena cheerleader walk withl spirit. l

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Top Stories 1987 BY JULES LOH AP SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The IFBI1-C0l'lfI'a heafll'lgS, which shook an administration and -briefIy- made Oliver North a household name,ranked as the top news story of 1987 in a year-end poll of Associated Press member newspaper editors and broadcasters. The year brought news as diverse as a summit conference, terrible airplane crashes, troubles in the Persian Gulf, scandals in politics futile efforts to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, a stock market crash and the rescue of a little girl from an abandoned well. and TV SVSDQBIISITI, two The STOCK market Cl'aSh Came in a close second to the Iran-Contra hearings in the voting on the years top 10 stories. The hearings ended with Lt. Col. North a momentary hero, and the man who may have masterminded the operation, CIA Director William Casey, dead. The sessions took most of the summer and received testimony from 500 witnesses, among them Adm. John Poindexter, the former national security adviser, and Secretary of State George Shultz, who complained that North and Poindexter had deliberately kept him in the dark. North who was fired from the National Security Council for his role, admitted he had misled Congress and shredded documents. He lectured the members of Congress on the morality of his actions. His former secretary, Fawn Hall, told the committee that there were times when one must go above the written law , but then retracted the statement. 60 In their final report on the affair, two congressional committees concluded that Reagan had failed in his constitutional duty to faithfully execute the law. The president let it be known he felt personally wounded by the criticism of his leadership. At year's end, grand juries were still investigating, and criminal indictments were possible. The S500 billion market collapse of Black Monday, Oct. 19, the worst market panic of modern times, seemed to catch even Wall Street experts by surprise. In retrospect, analysts noted the bull market had been slipping since it peaked in late August. Stock prices, in fact, began falling sharply in the week preceding the crash when the government reported the nation's trade deficit had worsened, triggering worries about inflation and the dollar. The nation was stunned, however, when Black Monday's crash eclipsed the crash of 1929, which ushered in the Great Depression. In the month of October the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 602.75 points and slid 159.98 more in November. By late December the Dow had recovered more than 200 points from its October low, but still was 500 under the year's high. The consensus of economists, however, was that no major recession was in sight. The third story on the top-10 list was the three-day summit meeting of Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev in December. The leaders of the two superpowers signed a treaty to ban medium-range nuclear missiles and proclaimed it a historic turning point. The two shared trumpet fanfares, artillery salutes and champagne toasts, and wound up calling each other Ron and Mikhail. Most liberals praised the treatyg many of the president's fellow conservatives denounced it. Fourth, was the phase in Persian Gulf violence that began with the reflagging of Kuwaiti oil tankers so they could travel under U.S. Navy escort. In May, lraq's air force attacked the U.S. Navy frigate Stark, killing 37 Americans. Iraq said it was an accident and the United States accepted the apology. Through the summer and fall, one reflagged tanker hit a mine, U.S. helicopters sank an Iranian minelayer and a speedboat, an Iranian missile hit one of the reflagged tankers, wounding its American master, and U.S. warships and commandos destroyed three Iranian oil platforms in retaliation. Fifth, was the drawn-out and acrimonious effort by President Reagan to appoint a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell. His first choice was Robert H. Bork, an appellate judge favored by conservatives. Liberals lined up against him and the Senate finally rejected Bork 58-42.- When it was discovered that Reagan's second choice, Douglas H. Ginsburg, another appellate judge, had smoked marijuana in the 1960's and 1970's, Ginsburg asked that his nomination be withdrawn. Sixth, was the story that broke in March with the disclosure that TV evangelist Jim Bakker engaged in a motel room tryst back in 1980 with a church secretary, Jessica Hahn, then 21, and allegedly paid her hush money to keep the affair quiet. Bakker was defrocked and his PTL ministry was turned over to another TV evangelist, Jerry Falwell. Later the ministry filed for protection under the bankruptcy laws, and Hahn sold her story-with nude pictures of herself-to Playboy