Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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GETTING READY to take that long walk to their future, Tammy LEADING THE AUDIENCE and Youngquist and Jennifer Snyder seniors in the Pledge of Allegiance is make final adjustments to their class treasurer. Brad Greenawalt. gowns. THE SENIOR CLASS GIFT is presented to Mr. Million by Anne Holdcman and David Helman. STEVE NOFFSINGER directs the band for the final time during “The Star Spangled Banner.” THE CHOIR SINGS “Master of Human Destinies” in honor of the graduates. SHONDA MILLSAP'S SMILE reflects her happiness about her future. GRADUATION 23

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22 GRADUATION

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1'Li.li Li LlliLll Lj.liL.li.liL. lit 1987-88 in Elkhart and around the country was a very eventful year. Names such as Oliver North, Jim and Tammy Bakker, and Gary Hart; and events such as “Black Monday,” the Persian Gulf crisis, and the NFL strike, will be permanent re- minders of the year. Other reminders were the summit between Pres- ident Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev and the signing of the INF treaty, the rescue of fifteen- month-old Jessica McClure from a well in Texas, and the AIDS epidemic was publicized more in an effort to educate Americans about this deadly dis- ease. Dennis Conner won back the America’s Cup with his winning racer the Stars and Stripes and the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge celebrated its 50th birthday. Locally, renovations were made to the three in- nercity middle schools along with the construction to most of downtown Elkhart. The Bucklen Opera House was torn down after a long debate on wheth- er or not it should be renovated. Mayor James Perron was the first mayor of Elkhart to be re- elected in twenty years. The 1987-88 year was one filled with excitement and tragedy. Major national and local events made the year one that will not be forgotten. IN THE SIX YEARS since Americans first heard of a mysterious immunity-robbing disease from which no one recovers, AIDS has killed nearly 25.000 Americans. President Reagan has proclaimed the plague “Public Enemy No. I.” A 24-DAY STRIKE by the NFL players ended in mid-October when the union capitulated and went to court instead of trying to fight the club owners at the bargaining table. MARINE LT. COL. Oliver L. North, was a key official in the plan to finance anti-government rebels in Nicaragua with money from arms sales to Iran. 24 CURRENT EVENTS