Greenport High School - Beachcomber Yearbook (Greenport, NY)

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After a delay of three days in the Men's Downhill, Bill Johnson, a dark- horse in the event, swore he would win the gold medal, and did in fact take the gold. He said all the Austrians and Europeans who came to the Olympics were competing for second place. He had won the recent World Cup Title in the Downhill prior to the winter compe- titions. February 16 finally was the day reset for the race, and on this sunny day, Johnson put up when he finnlly shut up” and did win the first gold ever in the men's division with the time 1.59.85. Soon after, he received much coverage from national magazines such as SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. On the same day, another glorious triumph was gained. This time it was in figure skating. Scott Hamilton who had suffered from malabsorption syndrome (a disease which prevents nutrients from being absorbed through the in- testines) when he was a child, found therapy on the ice. Leading in all the events, figures, and short program, Hamilton skated his long program, making it good enough for gold. As an ABC announcer said, After talking to Scott Hamilton, it is a joy to know that nice guys do finish first ...” In the women's division, the United States had very good chances of win- ning a gold, but Katarina Witt from East Germany took the judge's vote with a split-triple toe loop combination, and beat out the American favorite and 1983 World Champion, Rosalynn Sumners, who settled for second with a silver. The U.S.A. Hockey Team didn't do as well as in the 1980's, losing to the Canadians, Czechs, and tieing with the Norweigens 3-3, thus putting them out of any possibility of advancement to the medal round. The Diaper Line”, made up of Ed Olczyk, David A. Jenson and N.Y. Islander Ist-round draft pick, Pat Lafontaine were slow getting started, but picked up and scored productively for Team U.S.A. However, it still wasn't good enough, because they ended up with seventh place. This is the lowest hockey finish for the U.S. since 1968 when the Americans placed sixth. The 1984 Olympics didn't provide the Miracle on Ice” as did 1980, but who knows about 1988 . . history can repeat itself. The four-man bobsled team, Jeff Jost, Joe Briski, Tom Barnes and Hal Hoye did exceptionally well, making the top ten. The U.S. foursome brought the Swiss sled two days before the competition, thus capturing fifth place, something which the U.S. crew hadn't accomplished since 1956, when they won a bronz medal. Ski jumper, Jeff Hastings, who won the World Cup title in 1983, just fell short of winning the bronze medal at Sarajevo in the 90 meter competition. Pat Ahern who competed in the Nor- dic Combined missed getting a medal because his ski jump was so long that judges said it was endangering the other jumpers” and that Ahern had gone over the safety mark”. A disap- pointed Pat Ahern who had been leading with his spectular jump, was ruled out by the Austrian, East and West German, Yugoslavian, and other judges who rescheduled the jump thus making him lose his lead and sending him back down to 16th place overall.

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of the Holy Year .... there was no rejoicing when Europeans marched in protest against American plans to in- stall more missiles overseas.... and in New York a 14 year old delivery boy was murdered while on his newspaper route .... 70,000 people marched infront of the White House protesting the controversial issue of abortion .... while Sally Ride, a physicist, became the first American woman in space .... EPS's failure to clean up toxic waste was blamed on Rita M. La velle, who swore she had done nothing wrong; however the jury thought she was lying and convicted her . . . the recently discovered disease. AIDS, was claim- ing an increasing number of Americans victims .... The Met opera house in New York celebrated its 100th anniver- sary in the same year the largest mo- opoly, the Bell Telephone Company, broke up ... . PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Martha Layne Collins became the first woman governor in Kentucky and the only woman governor in the U.S... . . while Vanessa Williams, Miss New York, became the first black woman to be crowned Miss America .... and the last ragtime composer, Eubie Blake, whose music made Broadway, died five days after his 100th birthday .... David Niven, the dashing British actor, who starred in more than 100 films died at the age of 73 of Lou Gehrig's dis- ease . . . while Klaus Barbie ex-Nazi, was extradicted from Bolivia to France to stand trial on war crimes charges. It was later revealed that he had worked for U.S. Army intelligence after WWII.... furthermore, successful NBC news anchorwoman, Jessica Savitch, died at the early age of 35 in an auto accident in Pennsylvania .... another death occurred when Tennessee Wil- liams, playwright of A Street Car Named Desire, choked to death on a bottle cap in his Manhattan suite ... in recognition for her work, Meryl Streep won her second Oscar for best actress in Sophie's Choice, portraying a Nazi death camp survivor .... while Ben Kingsley walked away with the best actor award, recreating India's spiritu- al and political leader, Gandhi .... Beach Boy Dennis Wilson drowned .... and the Beatles celebrated the 20th anniversary of their popular music. SPORTS NEWS .... The New York Islanders tied with Montreal in the 1983 NHL season and went on to win their 4th consecutive Stanley Cup .... Tom Sreva won his first Indianapolis 500 by roaring past 3- time champion Al Urser .... In golf, Steve Ballesteros shot four under par on the first 4 holes of the final round to take and hold the lead in the Masters' Tournament .... in figure skating, Scott Hamilton continued his streak by capturing four U.S. and World Cham- pionships .... and in the woman's Big Brother is watching us in 1984 . division, U.S. champion, Roslyn Sumners skated to the world title .... the com- petitive sport of tennis was dominated by Jimmy Conners in the men's division coming back from a losing third set, to beat Ivan Lendl in the U.S. Open .... Martina Navratilova took the U.S. Open after beating 6-time champion Chris Evert Lloyd .... Challenger II of Australia outsailed the American yacht. Liberty, in the Americas Cup Race and the U.S. broke its longest run- ning winning streak of 132 years ... the Baltimore Orioles beat the Philadelphia Phillies to capture the World Series Title .... but in football, the Washington Redskins won the NFC Championship, as the L.A. Raiders won the AFC divi- sion title. When the two teams met in January for the XVIII Super Bowl, the L.A. Raiders skinned the Washington Redskins by a score of 38-9 .... in the NBA Championship, the Philadelphia 76's outshot the L.A. Lakers beating them 4 straight games. The XIV Winter Games were held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Not this much action has come to Sarajevo since Archduke Ferdinand of Austria was as- sassinated by a Bosnian rebel on June 28, 1914, starting WWI. But this year, 1984, it was held in this iron-curtain country surrounded by Hungary, Romania and Greece. The United States had the largest number of athletes, 124, participating at these Winter Olympics. Unfortunately, the medal total, 8, wasn't extremely high; this being the second lowest winter games medal count for the U.S. since 1936. For the first three or four days the United States did not win any medals until Kitty and Peter Carruthers skated an excellent long program in the pairs figure skating and won the silver med- al, taking second to the Soviet pair. The second great victory came after prolonging the ski races due to storms and foggy weather conditions. The U.S. Alpine ski team proved that all their previous practices and year- round training paid off when. Debbie Armstrong took the gold in the Wom- en's Giant Slalom with the winning time of 2.20.98 and her teammate Christine Cooper behind her with 2.21.38. 7

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Another disappointment was Mike Woods who came in seventh place in speedskating. However, despite all the set-backs and disappointments from the ski jumpers and Hockey Team, the last day of competition ended with tears of triple happiness for Phil Mahre. It was the Men's Slalom in which he cap- tured first place. His twin brother Steve Mahre, soon followed, one tenth of a second later. An Austrian finished third. A few hours after the race, Phil Mahre called home to find out the pleasant news that his wife had had a baby boy. Overall, the U.S.A. Alpine Team did the best, taking home five of the eight American medals. (The Soviets had the highest medal total, 27, and the East Germans followed close behind with 26 27.) Debbie Armstrong, Bill Johnson, Phil Mahre and Scott Hamilton took the golds, while Christine Cooper and Steve Mahre earned silvers. The U.S. fugure skating team didn't do too badly either with Scott Hamilton, gold, Rosalynn Sumners, silver and in pairs. Kitty and Peter Carruthers held the sil- ver. The Summer Olympics, which will be held in Los Angeles, California, should be much more successful for the Unit- ed States. Afterall, we will have the home-ground advantage .... Melisse Dansereau