Audubon High School - Wheeler Yearbook (Audubon, IA)

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Seasons in the Sun 1. Dave Tessman hooks up the fog lights on his pick up In VoAg class. 2. Doug Sorensen overhauls an engine in shop class. 3. The senior volleyball players led the team to a successful season Pictured are (Back row) Lana Deist, Kristie Wahlert, Kathy Stone, Re- nee Nielsen; (Front row) Lori Swanson. Donita Ditto, and Angie Christensen. 4 Shar on Garber and Linda Nickum show the prop- er form for addressing the ball. 5. The senior float of Winnie the Pooh was a memorable one-awesome. Theme 3

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We Had Joy, Fun, This year the yearbook staff chose the theme “Seasons in the Sun” for the 1984 Wheeler. Maybe it was the record-breaking heat wave during the summer months that encouraged us to concern our- selves with the weather (the seasons). After the consecutive 90 degree days of August, we were ready for a change, but the change didn’t have to be quite so drastic. During December we had records again — record snowfalls and tem- peratures. Before Christmas Old Man Winter descended on us with - 20 degree temperatures with the wind chill factor of 100 degrees be- low. Storms left motorists stranded throughout the state. Following the pattern, the spring months were an uncharacteristically cold and wet time. Even by the end of April, our warmest day was an unseasonably mild day on February 27. As the cool temperatures contin- ued, we skipped spring altogether and jumped to summer-like tempera- tures during the last week of school. However, the yearbook staff se- lected the theme for other reasons. Students' schedules revolved around the seasons. The sports seasons, the seasons for concerts and contests make up a big part of students' time. These seasons are the ones that provide some of our most memorable moments at AHS. It is these times that reflect the words to the song, “We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.” 2 Theme

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1983-84 Has Been Once again the year 1983-84 was filled with controversies. It remained a time of political and economic un- rest in Central America, specifically in Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Sal- vador. Bombings and military inva- sions continued in Lebanon, Israel, Iran, Palestine, and Saudia Arabia. In September the USSR shot down a Korean Jetliner with 269 passengers aboard. The U.S. sol- diers were on a peace-keeping mission in Beirut for several months before the American public boister- ously welcomed their evacuation. This year saw the U.S. invasion of Grenada to escort Americans from the island. There were high hopes for better East-West diplomatic relations after the death of Yuri Andropov and the naming of Konstantin Chernenko as his Soviet successor. This year also recorded the deaths of newscaster Frank Reynolds, singer Ethel Mer- man, and Barney Clark, the first artificial heart recipient. This was the year for the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. American names that will be remembered are Debbie Armstrong and Christin Cooper in the slalom, Peter and Kitty Carruthers in pair skating, Scott Hamilton in figure skating, Billy Johnson’s victory in the downhill, and Phil and Steve Mahre. One of the remarkable per- formances was of Great Britain’s Torvel and Dean in ice dancing. This was the year of Michael Jackson. He won eight Grammy awards and will be remembered for his songs “Thriller, “Beat It,” and “Billy Jean.” Another star emerged as Clara Peller swept the country in her Wendy’s commercials, “Where’s the beef?” 1984 was the year for politics. Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, George McGovern, Jesse Jackson, Alan Cranston, Fritz Hollings, and others travelled to Iowa to win the vote for the Democratic nomination in Iowa’s caucus. On the local level, a bevy of candidates vied for positions in one of the largest primaries in history. 1984 marked the Summer Olym- pics in Los Angeles. A Soviet boycott of the event also caused 12 other countries from sending teams to the event. 1983-84 has been a year of turmoil. The events will encourage us to place the year in the perspec- tive of time. 4 Opening