Greenport High School - Beachcomber Yearbook (Greenport, NY)

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ADMINISTRATION . . 11 FACULTY ........... 17 SENIORS ........... 25 CLASSES ............61 ATHLETICS ......... 71 ACTIVITIES .........99 ADVERTISEMENTS .127

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Today we'll start a new life and will say our last good-byes to all the friends we've grown to love with whom we've laughed and cried. Remembering the fun and laughter, the problems and the fears, and watching all our memories grow throughout our high school years. The memories of the dances and the new friends that we've met, vacations, teachers, talking and exams we'd rather forget. Yes, high school days are precious, but brief; where all your dreams come true, it is not the end, but the beginning of a life we'll start anew.

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The 1983-84 school year had numer- ous events which were a combination of interest, pain, devastation, disap- pointment and triumph. Not all of these facts were recorded but some are worth storing in our memory banks. Some worth remembering......... For example, do you remember in Glen Cove, a Federal judge had to settle a dispute which allowed Russians who lived permanently in Glen Cove, to to use the public beaches on Labor Day .... or when the New York 5c deposit bottle law went into effect... . Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday be- came a national holiday under the Reagan administration .... Terence Cardinal Cooke of St. Patrick's Cathe- dral died of leukemia at the age of 62 . . . . while in New Jersey, a federal judge repealed the law requiring a moment of silence in public schools . .. . a Korean jet liner was shot down over Communist air space and 269 people were murdered .... in the Baby Jane Doe Case, there was a question of whether doctors at the Stony Brook Hospital, had the right to uphold the parents who had decided against sur- gery to prolong the severely handi- capped child's life .... the U.S. State Department contended that the baby's civil rights were being violated. The highest Court of Appeals in New York ruled in favor of the parents .... Governor Mario Cuomo's Rebuild New York $125,000,000,000 bond is- sue was approved by New York voters .... while on the other coast, Los Angeles jurors sentenced Angelo Buno, Jr., strangler, to life imprisonment without possibility of parole .... a bliz- zard in the midwest broke a record, killing 59 and bringing cities to a stand- still .... the 83-84 crop season was considered the worst draught year since the dust bowl.... a Scandana- vian jet liner slid off the JFK runway into Jamaica Bay .... another tragedy was rememberd, this year, being the 20th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination .... Richard Beigenwald was sentenced to death for the mur- der of an 18 year old New Jersey woman, only one of the five killings he had committed on the other hand 6 a Long Island scientist, Barbara McClin- tock, won the Nobel Prize for her work in genetics at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory .... but Poland's Solidarity Labor Union Leader, Lech Walesa, was lucky enough to also win the Nobel Peace Prize, but he did not pick it up for fear that he would not be allowed to return to Poland .... Yuri Andropov, the head of the Soviet Union, had not made a public appearance since Au- gust 18,1983 .. The following February, news of his death was announced, his successor is Chernenko .... The U.S. Marines were sent to Beirut after an attack was made on the U.S. Head- quarters, killing 63 people in the U.S. Embassy Building .... Reagan an- nounced that he would withdraw troops from Beirut and then proceed- ed to do so ... . Menachem Begin resigned from Israeli politics due to “deep depression following the death of his wife .... while another set of U.S. troops were sent to rescue 600 American medical students who were thought to be in danger from native terrorist groups in Grenada .... the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge was celebrated with a fireworks display on July 4,1983. . . . Pope John Paul II celebrated the Roman Catholic Church's 25th Jubilee