Archbishop Kennedy High School - Kencensus Yearbook (Conshohocken, PA)

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Kennedy, local and national news combine to form The World of 1986-87 January As the rest of the United States was bundled-up in sweaters and earmuffs to combat the plunging tem- peratures, another scale was plunging . . . The Dow Jones Industrial average. On January 8, 1986, Wall Street was shocked as it reached an all-time low plunge of 39.10 points. January was also a month for famous birthdays and births. On the 11th, Actress Jessica Lange gave birth to a daughter, Hannah, by Sam Sheppard. Comedian George Bums reached the ripe old age of ninety — still energetic and still funny on the 20th. Where there are beginnings, there must also be ends, however. L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Dianetics” and the Church of Scientology died at the age of seventy- four on the 24th. And, speaking of numbers, the Chicago Bears demolished the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XX, 46-10. Truly, the 27th of January was a happy day for Soviet dissident Anatoly Shchar- ansky, freed on this day. On the vein of freedom, now every third Monday of January will be set aside for the commemoration of Mar- tin Luther King Jr., fifteen years after his death. Op- posing the bill at first, Reagan later conceded due to the overwhelming support in both houses of Congress. On January 28, 1986, the world witnessed a tragedy. The space shuttle Challenger exploded seven- ty-three seconds into its flight. Millions watched as the shutde, along with its crew, went up in a cloud of smoke. Included in the millions of viewers were the students of Christa McAulif- 6 fe, the first teacher in space, who was onboard Chal- lenger. February February got off on a chilly start for President Reagan’s son, Ron Reagan, as he dan- ced in his underwear on Saturday Night Live in a sketch spooring the movie Risky Business. Lee Iacocca was removed from the Statue of Liberty Restoration Com- mittee on February 12th, and John Zaccaro, Jr. was arrested on cocaine charges on the 17th. With the fleeing of Ferd- inand Marcos from the Philippines on the 25th, hope for the future was restored to the Filipino people. Corazon Aquino, 53, was inaugurated on this day and took the inauguration oath which established her as the President of the Philippines. The 26th brought the United States its first poet laureate — Robert Penn Warren, and on the 28th Olof Palme, Swedish Prime Minister was assassinated. March On March 1, the Great Peace March for Nuclear Disarmament began in Los Angeles. These dedicated peace marchers treked across the United States on foot toward Washington. On a $1.71-a-day-per-person ration, the marchers sur- vived a fifteen to twenty mile a day average. The deaths of three im- portant people occurred in February: Georgia O'Keeffe, painter, 98, on the 7th; Jacob Javits, senator, 81, on the 7th, and James Cagney, actor, 86, on the 30th. Justice goes undone on the campus of Brown Univer- sity when the college decides All roads lead to Con- shohocken... not to discipline students im- plicated in a sex-for-pay ring. Many hoped that justice would not be altered when on the 18th when Lyndon LaRouche-linked candidates win in an Illinois Democratic primary. Another question for the balancing scales: Amy Carter was arrested for trespassing in Providence, Rhode Island, at a sit-in op- posing IBM’s South African investments. What began on the 24th would foreshadow the remainder of 1986 as the United States and Libya clash over the line of death.” Many other Americans are outraged that outstanding movie, The Color Purple, nominated for eleven Oscars, doesn’t win any. In keeping with the altruism which seems to have become the trademark of the eighties, comedians

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where 8c when G You always find something in the last place you look. No matter where you go, there you are. The pimples don’t appear until an hour before the dance. Girls dance. Boys watch girls dance.

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sponsor Comic Relief which airs on HBO on the 29th. April Altruism may have become a recurring feature in our decade, but a more horrible and security- threatening trend has ap- peared once too often: terrorism. On April 2, four American citizens died in a TWA bomb blast over Greece. As tension escalated, another attack, this time in a West Berlin discotheque, happened on the 5th. The bombings, linked to Libya and other radical Middle Eastern factions, resulted in Reagan's stem reaction of bombing Libya on the 14th. Another tragedy blanketed April and the Ukraine on the 26th as a reactor fire at the Soviet Chernobyl nuclear power plant released a radioactive cloud detected by an alarm in Sweden, 800 miles away. Thirty-one Soviets died in the reactor fire and it was estimated that the radioactivity — more than what was released at Nagasaki and Hiroshima — may eventually cause at least 4,000 deaths. April was not a total month ... well, they used to. (Photographs by lack Coll) %» of sadness. Clint Eastwood celebrated his election as mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California on the 8th, and Hugh Hefner celebrated his sixtieth birthday on the 9th at a mansion-bash. Un- fortunately for Hefner, on the day after, Playboy magazine were pulled from the shelves of 4500 7-Eleven stores nationwide. Another flop: Geraldo Rivera in- trigues the nation into wat- ching the most highly Neilsen-rated television show about the revealing of the secret contents of A1 Capone’s vault. What was revealed? Absolutely nothing. Wedding bells chimed on the 26th for former Mr. Olympia Arnold Schwarz- enegger and journalist Maria Shriver. Who said brains and brawn don’t mix? May May was certainly a month for celebrities. Dolly Parton opened her theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and loan Rivers decided to aban- don Johnny Carson and quit The Tonight Show. Celebrity babies flourished this month: Meryl Streep gave birth to her third child, Grace; Tatum O’Neal and John McEnroe have a son, Kevin. Rocker Tommy Lee married television’s Heather Locklear on the 10th, and Vanna White’s boyfriend, John Gibson, died in a plane crash on the 17th. The ever-turbulent Phil Donahue had a misfortunate run-in with a Lyndon LaRouche disciple at LaGuardia airport on the 11th, slugging it out with him. Still, a bright spot glim- mers on the 1986 calendar: on the 25th millions of Americans joined hands in support of our own poor in the feat everyone thought could never be ac- complished, Hands Across America. June The Amnesty In- ternational Tour, a call for the freeing of wrongly-held political prisoners ended in New Jersey on the 15th. Am- nesty’s objective is to peacefully free or better the conditions of prisoners by sending personal letters of outrage collecteld by all citizens to the oppressive government. Because of the tour and the support of millions around the world, the South African govern- ment acquitted and released Thozamlle Gqweta. The nation turned its eyes toward the serious drug problem in the U.S. when University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias died at twenty-two of a cocaine overdose, two days after becoming the Boston Celtics’ first-round draft choice. The tragedy sparked immediate action by Congress who passed a no-expense-barred anti-drug bill. Bias died while celebrating his draft pick on the 19th. Citizens also mourned the death of two other greats: Benny Goodman, 77, on the 13th and Kate Smith, 79, on the 17th. The decision of the Supreme Court on the 30th outraged many in the nation while others saw it as a step toward the renewal of morality. On this day, the Court upheld laws banning sodomy. July July went off with a big bang in more than one way this year. The July 4th celebration commemorated more than our inde- pendence. After a two year make-over, Miss Liberty was ready to join in the grandest Fourth of July ever. Twenty- eight minutes of awesome fireworks emblazoned the New York sky in what Mayor Ed Koch described as the best fireworks since Nero set Rome on fire.” But, the noise wasn’t only in New York. It wasn’t on the Fourth that Conshohocken residents felt and heard an explosion . .. the destruction of the Matsonford Bridge as we knew it. That’s all everyone needed to hear. With the reconstruction and redevelopment of The Schuylkill Expressway, the Turnpike, and many other local roads, area residents found travel difficult enough. Now, an alternate route had to be found in or- der to reach the already car- dense expressway. Progress? Well, the new bridge under construction boasts an estimated cost of twelve million dollars and is projec- ted to aide the already developing borough of Con- 7