Althoff Catholic High School - Crusader Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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JANUARY 1986 7-Reagan orders all Americans remaining in Lybia to return home. U.S. cuts all economic ties to Lybia. -Reagan, Khadafy is not only a barbarian, but he ' s flaky. -Soviets blast U.S. films — RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II, ROCKY IV, and RED DAWN. 15-Mikhail S. Gorbachev proposed a world wide ban on nu¬ clear weapons by the year 2000. -South Africa blockades Lesotho. -Gramm-Rudman budget law is triggered. -U.S. participates in MIA talks in Vietnam. 23-Oil prices plunge to a 6-year low. -U.S. commences flight operations over Lybia. -First Martin Luther King holiday observed. 28-NATION STUNNED BY TRAGEDY. American space shut¬ tle Challenger explodes shortly after take-off, all seven crew members are lost, shuttle fleet is grounded, Reagan postpones State of the Union address, makes plea to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle ' s take-off. What happened, he said, was part of the process of exploration and discov¬ ery. -Voyager 2 discovers new rings and moons about Uranus. 26-Bears out Patriots in Super Bowl 46-10. FEBRUARY 7-Jean Claude Duvalier flees Haiti, ends 28-year family rule. 7-Philippine election held amid fraud and violence. -Reagan appoints commission to study the shuttle disaster. 1 1 -Soviets free Jewish dissident Anatoly B. Shcharansky after eight years of imprisonment and forced labor. He returns to Israel. -Marcos is declared winner of Philippine election, Aquino announces active resistance campaign. -U.S. Senate condemns Philippine elections, saying they were marked by widespread fraud. 26-Marcos flees the Philippines hours after inauguration end¬ ing a 20-year presidency. Juan Ponce Enrile and Lt. Gen. Fidel Ramos resigned and pledged support to Corazon Aquino, the new president. U.S. promises Marcos a safe haven if he left peacefully. -Reagan asks Congress for $100 million for the Nicara¬ guan contras fighting to overthrow the Sandinista govern¬ ment. 1986-1987 Year of Tragedy Year of Triumph

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Teens Encounter Christ is a three-day experience in Christian living. You experience: a fresh and exciting place away from home, school, and work; meeting youth from other areas; finding a God you can believe in; encoun¬ tering Jesus Christ, risen and alive today; a follow-up program to help you live what you find at TEC, a time to reflect on your life, your ideas, hopes, and dreams. An encounter with Christ must be a freely accepted response. There will be no pressure. You are not to be expected to make definite decisions or make final conclusions. That ' s what the brochure tells you. Now let me tell you what REALLY goes on. On the Saturday morning of your TEC, you travel between one and three hours to wherever the retreat is being held. It ' s usually held somewhere in the boonies of southern Illinois, so don ' t expect too much hopping nightlife. You check in about 11:00 a.m., and you settle into your room. You had better have practiced your southern accent, because chances are that you will be rooming with someone from Murphysboro, or (heaven forbid) Ken¬ tucky, and they don ' t know how to talk right. My TEC weekend was the best weekend of my life. It did not change ME; it just added so much to my personality, my relationship with God, and most of all, to my relationship with you — every one of you. TEC is not a cult-thing. It gives you something practical to hold on to. You can ' t imagine the family TEC has created. Here are people who really love you, not just tolerate you or patronize you, but love you unconditional¬ ly. They don ' t care about your grades, or who your friends are, or what kind of car you drive. They just care about you. It ' s so simple, you ' ll be amazed at how easy it is. 6 1. Greg Graham practices music during a break on Sparta 62. 2. E. J. Jarvis jumps for joy over Fr. Alan Ruppert. 3. Holly Halverson, Lau¬ ra Voellinger, and Debbie Monk display their piety on their senior retreat. 4. Ken Wetstein, Mark Fausz, Liz Murphy, Brenda Rensing, Mol¬ ly Polka, Lisa Buettner, and Amy Kniepkamp sing the Blessing of Aaron at a reunion mass. 5. Greg Davis and Ken Rutter get crazy at the Evansville reunion. 6. Doug Elbe and Fr. Alan enjoy messing up Jim Schranz ' s styled hair. 7 Reunions are a very important and fun part of the TEC retreat program. I don ' t know, maybe it was the people — well, I guess it had to be the people — but my senior retreat was just a great experience. I did not expect it to be, but it was. It is so incredible how people can go to school with someone for three years or so and never talk to that someone, but know his or her name and form a defi¬ nite opinion about him or her. Everyone seems so nonchalant about typecasting people who are basically strangers, when you get right down to it. I did it. You probably do it now. Well, retreat blew all of my stereotypes right out the water. At first, I felt guilty. Where did I get off pre-judging these people? Didn ' t I hate the idea of others typecasting me? Then, I was happy to find how much I had in common with a lot of the people in my group; many of us had the same fears, worries, etc. We talked and thought, and then we talked about what we thought about. We complained, protested, learned, agreed, disagreed, laughed, and even cried. We had a good time. We became friends. I can ' t say that everyone in our group became best buddies. But I can say that at least everyone in our group un¬ derstands each other better. A lot of stereotypes were erased and a lot of bad feelings were cleared. No matter what you think, retreat is not stupid. It is about getting to know your classmates, and, more importantly, it is about getting to know yourself. — Ali¬ cia Sierra

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MARCH 1. The President and First Lady mourn alongside the families of the seven astronauts who died aboard the space shuttle Challenger. 2. Challenger ex¬ plodes, 73 seconds after lift-off. 3. Hands Across America |Oins 5 million Americans to raise money for poor 4. Tripoli in shambles after bombing. 5. Soviet dissident Shcharansky is freed. 6. Antonin Scalia fills vacant seat on the Supreme Court. -Premier Olaf Palme assassinated; killing stuns nation, world. -U.S. NEWS 7 WORLD REPORT publishes letter from Andrei Sakharov, famous Soviet nuclear physicist, and impris¬ oned Jewish dissident. -Pope John Paul II visits India. -Adlai E. Stevenson easily wins the Democratic nomination for Illinois governor, only to be stunned by the discovery that two of his running mates were followers of right¬ winger Lyndon H. LaRouche. 18-Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson. 24- U.S. Navy hits Lybian ships. APRIL 2-Arab terrorists plant bomb on TWA jet nearing Athens, kills 4 Americans. -Gorbachev calls for summit on test bans. -West Berlin disco bombing kills 2, one American service¬ man. 14-U.S. bombs Lybian targets in response to terrorist attacks, anti-American protests break out around the world, Rea¬ gan ' s popularity soars in the U.S. MAY -Crisis at Soviet Chernobyl nuclear plant spreads radiation and fear. -Seven-nation economic summit held in Tokyo, meeting termed a success, anti-terrorism declaration issued. -McDonald ' s begins serving Classic Coke again, instead of New Coke. 25- Over 5 million Americans form human chain across coun¬ try — Hands Across America raises money con¬ sciousness about poor. JUNE -Senate begins cable broadcasts on cable T.V. -Challenger crew is buried. -S. Africa declares national state of emergency. -Shuttle commission presents report, blames NASA for ne¬ glecting to address serious problems in program. -Kurt Waldheim wins Austrian Presidency despite Nazism charges. -Fear of terrorism hurts tourism. -Chief Justice Warren Burger resigns, William Rehnquist is appointed new Chief Justice, and Antonin Scalia is ap¬ pointed aid to Contras.