Davis High School - Olympian Yearbook (Modesto, CA)

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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

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MUUWIIIES 1. Terms Of Endearmeni 2. Flashdance 3. Hoi Dog A. Risky Business 5, Educdling Rilo 6. Yenil 7. All The Right Moves 8. Prodigal Q. Porky's ll :mornin WIIIDIEDS 1. Thriller - Michael Jackson 2. Tell Her Aoouf ll - Billie Joel 3. Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran Ll. l'll Tumble For You A Culiure Club 5. Tolal Eclipse - Bonnie Tyler o. Beal ll - Michael Jackson 7. LeT's Dance - David Bowie 8. Land Down Under - Men Ai Work Q. Billy Jean - Michael Jackson 10. King Of Pain - Police I -I And ihaT's enieriainmen