Anita High School - Spartan Yearbook (Anita, IA)

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Clara And Mr. T Rock Craze Hits Hollywood And AHS Two overnight successes were dubbed In '83. They were the Where's the Beef'' lady - Clara, and Mr. T. (Lawrence Tureaud). Everyone caught on to the Wendy's craze, and Where's the Beef? , became a popular question concerning any subject available. In fact it became so over-used that Wendy's decided to cool It for awhile and take Clara out of the spotlight. Mr. T succeeded in bringing a new hero image to TV. When first seen, a smile never dared crack his face. But he softened into a pussycat after a while and was even seen babysitting for Crystal Gayle's baby during the country music awards in the spring. Mr. T was close to home for us when he spoke in Council Bluffs on sub- stance abuse. Anita peers were Invited Kids everywhere were able to learn from their A-Team hero. Cable Entertains Anita Anita welcomed Cable TV In the summer of '83 as a new chance for entertainment. Besides the movies, sports, and specials, videos covered the screens These portrayals of hit songs became a must for music groups if they wanted to be corrpeti- tive In the world of rock-n-rol. Emotional Ending For Happy Days The long-running TV series Happy Days. presented the last of its new shows this season They signed off during their last show when Joani and Chochi were married Tears fell and emotion ran thick. But the reruns will stay on as memories of the good ole' days . Four members of the cast are pictured above In a close moment Donny Most. Marion Ross. Ron Howard, and Henry Winkler Movies took a slight turn this year with the subject of dancing being much more popular. Flashdance . Footloose , ond Breakin ' were just a few of the high-stepping movies. Stephen King was also popular when he terrorized the nation with his books that were turned into movies: “Cujo , Children of the Com , and Fire- starter The senior class fotowed In the dance craze by picking Footloose as the class song. The seniors made a good showing at the dance following the Alumni Banquet by equaling the number of adults who attended The rock-n-rol feeling was carried through by the OEA in a different fashion To raise money for Cody Trent, they held a rock-a-thon. However, this was done in rocking chairs rather than on a dance floor 2 N»wl Jackson rocks music world Michael Jackson secured his fame at the Grammy Awards this year, winning eight of the coveted trophies to take home. His hits Beat ft . Thriller . Billie Jean , Wanna Be Startin' Something , and Pretty Young Thing , rocked the nation throughout 83-84 and were video smashes Jackson gained even more fame through his accident in the Pepsi commercials, his hair was set on fire by a staged explosion. After being hospitalized he recovered to normal health in time to receive his armload of Grammy's shown in Pic.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Academics ............................... Sports .................................. Student Life ............................ Junior High ............................. Seniors ................................. Table of contents 1 7 31 53 71 81

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1984 — An Olympic Year Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, was the site of the Winter Olympic Games in 1984 The United States had many hopefuls who turned up gold Bill Johnson — downhi skiing; Scott Hamilton — figure skating; Steve and Phil Mahre — gold and silver in slalom skiing The women's figure skaters were hopeful for the United States, but Katharina Witt from East Germany won the judges' favor with her charm and took the gold Rosaline Sumners received the silver. Tiffany Chin placed In the top ten. Elaine fought the handicap of only half of a left foot at the Olympics. Scott Hamilton also fought the handicap of i health all of his life to end up m Sarajevo. He snatched the gold from all competition and is shown in Pic. 1. In a very emotional moment on the winners' podium between Canada's Brian Orse who won the silver and Czechoslovakia's Josef Sabovtchik (to the left) who took the bronze The Summer Olympics were threat- ened even before they started Russia led the boycotting of the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles because of a lack of protection and security for its athletes. All but one of the Communist countries followed suit. Surprisingly enough, there were more countries entered In the Summer Olympics than ever before Ride and Bluford: Firsts in Space SaHy K. Ride. 32. and Guion S. Bluford. Jr.. 41. became the first American woman and the first American black astronaut to travel in space. Both were mission specialists, she on the seventh space shuttle trip (June 18-24) and he on the eighth (August 30 - September 5). Pic. 3 shows Ride as she talked with mission control in Houston during the six day space flight of Shuttle Challenger New 3