Davis High School - Olympian Yearbook (Modesto, CA)

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fm gh., . T, g AA cross The naTion This year, shoppers wenT Trying To geT a hold of The newesT Toy craze iiTTle people grown in The cabbage paTch. ons of children begged Their parenTs To lopT a Cabbage RaTch Doll. The pudgy ba- s came wiTh birTh cerTificaTes and adopTion iers. A compuTer designed every doll's face arafely To insure ThaT no Two were alike. Fin- E, Toes, and even belly buTTons were de- ,d. The creaTor of This craze, Xavier RoberTs, used all The frenzy by saying, l'ln an age of eracTive Toys, Theres a need for a doll ThaT -sn'T weT, cry or roller skaTe. n The morning of Sunday. OcTober 23, an aTed 2,500 pounds of TNT were driven inTo U,S Marines headauarTers in BeiruT. The resull ToTal desTrucTion of The headauarTers and loss of more Than 200 lives. Many memories we To people aT ThaT Time, buT The mosT prev- il was This one: They were JUST kids. The ble facT was now realized ThaT no one and Duilding in BeiruT was ever safe lT would be iy weeks unTil The crisis IifTed, buT unTil Then, all merica would sTand behind The marines and hope for The day when They could go ie. Uwe pasT year held many firsTs, buT one of osT Terrific was Vanessa Williams f The firsT k Miss America. ln realiTy, Vanessa was seen Enly as The 5oTh Miss America, buT as a sym- f social change MosT of her days in The pasT ' have been full of Things To do. Said one of VVilliam's companions, 'lYou can'T sneak her anywhere, she's always recognized, liTh a 38-O Superbowl loss, The VVashingTon skins saw The besT Raiders Team ever Jghouf The game, The Redskins were domi- ld by The Raiders - parTicularly Raiders Run- Back Marcus Allen VVashingTon Fullback John Riggins desperaTely aTTempTed To do someThing wiTh The ball, buT his efforTs were fu- Tile. Because of The Raiders' upseT, The STock markeT in New York wenT down, some Las Ve- gas bookies wenT broke, and counTless argu- menTs and fighTs occurred around The UniTed STaTes. Raiders Howie Long sTaTed, l never had l-log before. TasTed good. 5. One of The mosT shocking evenTs of The year Took place when a U.S.S.R. war plane ruThlessly shoT down a helpless civilian 7417, Korean Air Lines FlighT 007, killing 269 people, including al Ameri- cans. The world was appalled by The SovleT violence and inTimidaTion. AT firsT, The Soviefs denied any connecTion wiTh The Tragedy, buT laTer acknowledged shooTing down The airliner because of fears ThaT iT was a spy plane or The like This was a barbaric and senseless acT, said PresidenT Reagan. IT shocks The sensibiliTies of people everywhere. The weeks To follow would be filled wiTh demonsTraTions of The world's anger Toward The U.S.S.R. 6. A fury of nuclear debaTe was creaTed by ABC's Television movie The Day AfTer Aired on November 20, The movie aTTempTed To show The aspecTs of nuclear war' No escaping, no hope, and no happy endings. ABC sTaTed be- fore The movie was aired, IT is hoped ThaT The images of This film will inspire The naTions of This earfh, Their people and leaders, To find The means To averT The TaTeful day. 7. ln a lesson of forgiveness for a chaoTic world, Pope John Raul ll pardoned his would-be assas- sin, Mehemel Ali Agca. The Ponhff mei The man in his Rebibbia prison cell in Rome. According To NME magazine. John Paul Tenderly held The hand ThaT held The gun ThaT was meanT To kill him AT The end of The meeTing, Agca eiTher kissed The Ropes ring or pressed The Popes V8 hand To his forehead in a Muslim gesTure of re- specT. The Pope hoped his meeTing would acT as an example To The world of The healing pow- ers of forgiveness. 8. Videos made Their major impacT on The US. This pasT year. Videos became one of The hoT- TesT iTems for a musical group To produce. ln- creasingly. American audiences demanded each song have a 'lfull audiovisual confronTa- Tian. Many popular videos were performed by Donna Summer, Michael Jackson, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Billy Joel, Van l-lalen, Rick Spring- field, and in The picTure, Quief Riof. Q The invasion was TexTbook smooTh, JusT days afTer The BeiruT bombing, a mulTinaTlonal force of paraTroopers sTormed The island of Grenada To rescue iTs inhabiTanTs and prevenf a possible Iran-sTyle hosTage siTuaTion. l'BuT even before The discovery of arms caches and Sovi- eT-Grenada miliTary TreaTies, The 'rescue mission' had become a preempTive sTrike againsT an- oTher CommunisT ouTposT in The Carribean. Ac- cording To UFE magazine, when 'lOperaTion Ur- genT Fury ended, T8 Ll S servicemen were dead and Ol wounded. ln The picTure, a flag aT half-masT in WashingTon, DC., honors The ma- rines in The invasion T0 The year marked The debuT fllghT of The Eu- ropean-builT Spacelab l. Following an almosT flawless launch, asTronauTs sTarTed To acTivaTe The 72 experimenis inside and ouT of The 23- fooT-long module and on Themselves. De-spiTe being plagued by many problems in The shuTTle and on The ground, The mission came ouT a land- mark success for space-age Technology World EvenTs TOO

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WemOl'ieS . by John Guerrini The pasT school year was a year full f many memories - boTh good and ad Sally Ride, in The Space ShuTTle, be- :1me America's firsT woman To go inTo 'biT. JusT afTer his reTurn To The Phillipines, 3posiTion leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr. as assassinaTed aT Manila lnTerna- Jnal AirporT. One million mourners aT- ended his funeral. SecreTary of The InTerior James WaTT :id of his coal-leasing commission, I :ve a black, I have a woman, Two ews, and a cripple. And we have Tal- wT. ThaT descripTion cosT WaTT his b. He resigned afTer increasing pres- Ire from The public and The WhiTe Juse. The drowning of Dennis Wilson, 39, Tded The acT of America's mosT oubled supergroup. The Beach nys' drummer ended his fasT-paced Ein 43 feeT of murky waTer aT Marina I Rey. He was buried aT sea soon Terwards. The Tough Television newswoman essica SaviTch died in a Tragic auTo- obile accidenT in The Delaware Ca- lzl. IT was a sudden, shocking end To ceIebraTed newscasTer whose life onsisTed of public Triumphs and per- nal Tragedies. Many naTion-wide circuldTing maga- Ies had a TribuTe To John F. Kennedy. venTy-one years ago, The youngesT esidenT of The UniTed STaTes was as- 4ssinaTed by Lee Harvey Oswald. On The soap scene, General Hospifai IW The reTurn of Laura Spencer - ily To bid goodbye To Luke and Laura Ter a few weeks TogeTher. AfTer meeTing and reminiscing old Time, The couple decided To go Traveling - never To reTurn To Genera! Hospifai. A 65-mile human chain, composed of more Than 200,000 WesT-German anTi-nuke proTesTors, was made from STuTTgarT To Neu-Elm in WesT Germany. DespiTe Their efforTs and The presenT poliTicaI opposiTion, nine Pershing II mis- siles were sTilI insTalled in The counTry. In Koyunaren, a village in easTern Turkey, a devasTaTing earfhquake sTruck aT dawn on OcTober 30. Mea- suring 7.4 on The T2ichTer scale, The quake desTroyed 4117 villages and killed 4,336 - many buried alive as They sIepT. Sean Connery, The original James Bond, renewed his place by reTurning, aT 53, To play James Bond in Never Say Never Again, his firsT Try aT 007 since leaving The series in 4974 afTer Dia- monds Are Forever. FifTy years afTer The original King Kong, an infIaTed 841-fooT replica of The ape rose To The Top of The Empire STaTe Building. IT clung To iTs famous perch for a few minuTes before sTarTing To deflaTe. The film The Righf Sfuff broughT seven Mercury asTronauTs inTo TheaTres across The counTry. Brisk-cuT. TesT-piloT heroism earned a second Iook in America. Boy George, 22, and his Three BriTish rocker companions released CulTure Club's Kissing To be Clever, and iT wenT plaTinum. QuieT RioT's Meiai Heaiih became The highesT-charTing heavy meTal de- buT of all Time, beaTing ouT Def Lep- pard, Van Halen, and Led Zepplin. Sfern ediTors made a S38 million pur- chase of HiTler's diaries and called iT The journalisTic scoop of The posT- Dlympics prove challenging While The exacT origin is unknown, AncienT Games were held in a sa- d valley aT Olympia in Elis near The sTern coasT of Greece, and The rIiesT recorded Olympic compeTiTion s in 776 BC. These Greek Games re ceIebraTed in The belief ThaT The lriTs of The dead enjoyed such 'enTs. The Olympic Games became e greaTesT fesTival of every mighTy rTion. CenTuries passed. The Games sTiII nnfinued buT The high Olympic ideals Ere enTireIy discarded and profiT ne was The incenTive for playing. In '3 A.D., The Emperor Theodosius for- Ede The Games alTogeTher, buT They d survived a period of aImosT 300 ympiads or approximaTeIy 4200 ears. In 4896, The emergence of The mod- 'T Olympics Games Took place in AThens, Greece, wiTh The 43-naTion aT- Tended firsT Olympiad. ThaT brings us To The 23rd Summer Olympic Games To be held in Los An- geles on July 28-AugusT 42, 4984. WiTh 40,000 aThleTes and 2,000 coaches from 450 naTions and 8,200 accrediTed members of The media, iT will be The mosT widely covered Olympiad in his- Tory. The Olympic Torch will be carried by a 40,000-man-woman-and-child relay Team. The games will mean abouT S4 billion To California and Los Angeles' local economy. Americans have Trained beTTer Than ever for This Olympiad, and IT is felT ThaT They can win The mosT gold medals. Americans are eagerly awaiTing The opening of The 23rd Summer Olympiad so They can geT on wiTh Their Olympic dreams. As for The 4LlTh WinTer Olympiad held World War ll period. BuT, afTer all The exciTemenT, The 62 volumes weren'T worfh The paper They were forged on. The FBI cracked down on compuTer hackers who were breaking inTo gov- ernmenf compuTer sysTems proTecTed wiTh previously-believed secure pro- TecTion codes. Many of The hackers Turned ouT To be Teenagers. The year's Number 4 LP, Michael Jackson's Thriiier, provided The music for a 411-minuTe, S800,000 horror movie shorT and made iTs sTar 4983's Top en- TerTainer. The movie Fiashdance broughT in several looks - Torn fash- ions, oversize sweaTshirTs, and shoul- der-exposed shirTs. ExoTic popcorn appeared - pina colada, grape, or sTrawberry flavored. The U.S. Then proceeded To consume 112 popped quarTs of popcorn per per- son. More Than a million youngsTers car- ried i?efurn of The Jedi lunch boxes, crushing ouT The previously Smurf-held record. ScoTsman David Niven, 73, who re- defined debonair in such films as The Moon is Biue and Separaie Tables died This year. Paul Bear BryanT, The mosT vicTori- ous college fooTbaII coach ever, passed away aT 69. Sovief presidenT for only 45 monThs, Yuri Andropov, 69, died while in office. He was quickly replaced by 72-year old KonsTanTin U. Chernenko. When The Space ShuTTIe wenT up in February, The asTronauTs made The firsT unTeThered space walk. They floaTed freely around, propelled by bursTs of niTrogen from Their backpacks. The year was filled wiTh many evenTs - which made iT a Time noT To forgeT. for U.S. in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, during Febru- ary 7-49, 4984, The UniTed STaTes' didn'T do as well as expecTed. The UniTed STaTes won four gold and four silver medals. Gold medals were won by Bill Johnson in downhill skiing, Phil Mahre in Slalom, Debbie Armsfrong in gianT slalom, and ScoTT HamiITon in fi- gure skaTing. Silver medals were won by STeve Mahre in slalom, ChrisTin Coo- per in gianT slalom, Rosalyn Sumners in figure skaTing, and KiTTy and PeTer Car- ruThers in pair figure skaTing. The USA Hockey Team finished unexpecTedIy in sevenTh place. EasT Germany was The biggesT winner wiTh 2A medals ToTal. The American performance was quiTe a conTrasT from The numerous Ameri- can vicTories aT Lake Placid in 4980. - Phofographs courfesy of The Moaesfo Bee World EvenTs 204