Angelo State University - Rambouillet Yearbook (San Angelo, TX)

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Americans 1984 had a promising start. The Summer Games of the XXIII Olym- piad were held in Los Angeles, Calif. US. athletes accumulated nearly 200 gold, silver, and bronze medals. The Soviet-bloc boycott had not marred the competitive spirit of the athletes. But the serene summer of 1984 was shattered by the worst one-day slaughter in U.S. history. James Huberty, 51, ex-security guard. murdered 21 people and in- jured 15 others at a McDonald's in San Ysidro. Calif. Huberty had a reputation for his explosions of rage. 1984 became a year of break- throughs and defeats. Ronald Reagan overwhelmed Wal- ter Mondale with a 49-state sweep in the '84 presidential election. Reagan was supported by every region, every age group and almost. every demogra- phic voting bloc in the U.S. Vanessa Williams, 21, became the first black woman to hold the title of Miss America - and the first Miss America asked to resign her title. The explicit nude scenes of Williams with another woman in Penthouse maga- zine were said to have tarnished the shine in L.A. title of Miss America. Baby Fae was the first infant to receive a simian heart. She carried the heart of a baboon for 21 days be- fore she died-two weeks longer than any other previous recipient of an animal heart. Another breakthrough was that of a 33-year-old ocean geologist. Mis- sion Specialist Kathryn Sullivan be- came the first American woman to walk in space. She took part in the space Shuttle Challenger voyage with six other astronauts. Actor Richard Burton, 58, died this year of a cerebral hemorrhage. Bur- ton received seven Academy Award X .. ' i . ' I V . 5.3 . -, r 'A Z- , gljpvq 7 ,M -fe i'2'f7,....' , ' na Q , . g. 9, 3 K sk, . ,imuiga 0 'JI 'C ,fr E? ag' -ffm ' 4. iii,.'8Li4da i' I ' . A ' qt ' ,l F R N lk:-Qian? ' nominations for his roles in such films such as Becket,,' The Spy Who Came In From the Cold and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. - Phyllis Velez Mary Lou Retton won the all-around gold medal in women's gymnastics and led the women's team to a silver medal. She also won bronze medals for the floor exercise and the uneven parallel bars and took a silver medal for the vault. CAPfWide World Photol Vanessa Williams, the first black Miss Amer- ica was forced to resign her title for nude pho- tographs in Penthouse Magazine. tAPfWide World Photol .. 3 I -aff :af-

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,fa - i .. fl- w Ai- ,i ,. .ii GJ.,-. x A . 1 Z5 ' -Lhsih Campus expansion continues Despite a drop in enrollment, ASU continued to grow and expand in oth- er ways during 1984-1985. Two new dormitories were official- ly dedicated during the fall semester: Massie Residence Hall for Women, which has been open for two years, and Massie Residence Hall for Men, which opened in the fall of 1984.The twin dorms are named in honor of Robert and Mary Payne Massie, whose memorial foundation has pro- vided scholarships for West Texas students since the l930's. Construction continued through- out the year on the Nursing-Physical 24 Science Building. The S6 million structure will house the departments of nursing, physics and mathematics. In addition to offices, lecture halls, laboratories, and classrooms, the building will have a planetarium for the physics department and a com- puter lab for the math department. A program in applied physics pro- gram is designed for students who plan a career in electronics, petro- chemistry, or aviation. Two ASU organizations got good news during 1984-85. Block and Bri- dle became the third largest BSLB in the nation, smaller only to the chap- ters at Texas A8zM and Tarleton State. The Rodeo Club got a boost when it was given permission to co-sponsor a rodeo and gain National Intercolle- giate Rodeo Association eligibility. The club plans to co-sponsor their ro- deo in the fall of 1985. In other news, Randy Dale Mayo was convicted in the murder of ASU student Kimberly Sue Reeves on Jan. 31. Mayo was given the death penalty for the April 13, 1984 murder. - Gary Dulude