Bethel College - Log Cabin Yearbook (McKenzie, TN)

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THE YEAR IN REVIEW: 1987-1988 This was the year of the Presidential Primaries, so everything had a Political flavor, which was not always sweet! The Republicans wanted to pad out the Supreme Court and tried first with a Judge Robert Bork, we will see that they had to compromise later, because Bork did not make it. Pope John Paul II made a U.S. pilgrimage. With Aids in full spate, Homosexuals, Abortion and other Catholic hard line issues were bound to have prominence. October 19: t'Black Monday. The Dow Jones plunged 22.676, much greater than in 1929! The effects were still with us at the end of the Academic Year. November began with Iran declaring that it was At war with America. It was certainly acting warlike, with Silkworm missile attacks on two Tankers. Retaliation was a certainty and the U.S. Navy destroyed two Oil Platforms in the Gulf though it gave fair warning to the occupants, in good time for them to leave. The President tried another Supreme Court candidate with even less luck: Judge Douglas Ginsberg was out before he was in! with an admission of experimenting with Pot in his College days. At this stage of our year we still had 7 Republican runners for the Presidency: Bush, Biden, Dole, DuPont, Haig, Kemp and Robertson. The coming months reduced them down to one: George Bush. Not to be outdone the Democrats came up with equal strength: Dukakis, Jackson, Babbit, Gore, Gephardt, Simon and would you believe? Hart! November gave us Fatal Attraction with Glenn Close and Michael Douglas. This blockbuster really was Adult, warts and all! The President finally succeeded in filling the Supreme Court seat at the third try with a bland everybody's family man: Anthony Kennedy. Christmas was a week away and as a Gift to the World a Treaty banning all intermediate range Missiles was signed in Washington by President Reagan and Russia's Mikhail Gorbachev. One sour note: whenever the two Superwives meet, sparks seem to fly, they just do not get along. With the spirit of Christmas around, Gene Simmons taught us that: Life is real, life is earnest and leads naught but to the grave . He killed a total of 16, averaging real or imaginary wrongs. Most of the dead were his own children and a grandchild, plus Mrs. Simmons with her 5 children and 3 grandchildren. Margaret Thatcher became Britain's longest continuously serving Prime Minister. January 1988 and it was no surprise that: Time Magazine's Man of the Year was Mikhail Gorbachev of whom we will hear much through the year. At least 1,600 people were lost off the Philippines in a 10 p.m. collision between an overcrowded 2,215 ton ferry and an 8,500 ton Tanker carrying 8,800 barrels of Petroleum products which exploded, coating the sea in flames, only 26 people rescued from Shark infested waters. Andrew Lloyd Webber brought Phantom of the Opera to Broadway with record-breaking advance bookings. He is the Midas of the Musical they all turn to Gold. February saw the nitty gritty of the Election begin, Iowa being first with it's Caucus, so much was seen into the result yet time proved that result to be very misleading: Bush lost to Dole and Gephardt won for the Democrats. The troubles in Israel suggested that Israel may be riding a Palestinian Tiger and was staying on with difficulty. Fergie Duchess of York was declared Pregnant with her first child, the baby will be 5th in line for the Throne. Move over Jim and Tammy Bakker! here comes Jimmy Swaggart with his own brand of sinning, he didn't want to do it, he wanted to watch! He watched Debra Murphee, giving her notoriety if not fame. A Play didn't have to be a Lloyd Webber musical to succeed on Broadway though it helped: A serious drama by Lee Blessing began tc get attention and advance bookings, Walk in the Woods was not only serious but was also Political, normally, black marks, but not this time. There was an Avalanche warning out for 5,000 ft. and above, at the Swiss Skiing resort of Klosters, but Britain's Prince Charles and five companions went to 7,000 ft. it happened! roaring towards Charles and his friends, two of whom didn't make it and were buried. One: Major Hugh Lindsay, died of suffocation, but Patricia Palmer Tomkinson escaped with both legs broken. April came and so did a 250 minimum, Letter Stamp. There were signs that America was returning to Rail Travel and Railroad Companies were doing their best to foster the trend. Travellers are closed to the Scenery and the windows for viewing it are certainly bigger! Probably a feeling of safety is the biggest factor. If you still smoked Cigarettes, you were becoming a Pariah and the non-smokers looked upon you as a Loser! 267, of the Nation still smoked but it was 3875 thirty years ago. May saw the most serious clash to date between the Navy and Tehran. An Iranian Patrol Boat fired a Missile at the Navy's Wainwright a guided missile cruiser, which promptly fired one back, sinking the Patrol Boat with 15 dead and 29 injured. The U.S. was due to retaliate anyway, for a Mine hit of a U.S. Frigate: The Samuel B. Roberts . The President ordered the destruction of two Oil Platforms and the sinking ol one Iranian Naval vessel. Eventually it was three vessels because Tehran decided to make a fight of it. There was a lot of Marital activity among the Beautiful People in May, Mark Harmon and Pam Dawber had their first child, a Boy. Glenn Close and John Starke had their first, a Girl. Not to be outdonr Sonny Bono and his wife Mary also had a first, theirs was a Son. Burt Reynolds married Loni Anderson and Diane Sawyer of CBS married Stage Director: Mike Nichols. A structural failure tore off half the roof of Aloha Airlines Flight 243 at 24,000 ft. It landed safely with the Passengers sitting in the open air. Only casualty was a Stewardess, sucked out of the gaping hole. The Nation had a quiet chuckle at the news that Astrology played a part in decisions made by the Reagans, though we were assured that they were Nancy's decisions. The Heavens help us, or do they? Francois Mitterrand won a second seven year term at President of France, so Socialism remains in charge. We wished Irving Berlin Happy Birthday his 100th! but like every other Academic Year we said Goodbye to some of the famous: To mention only the most well known, there was Lorne Greene. Ben Cartwright of Bonanza C721 Emlyn Williams, Welsh author of Night must Fall C813 Heather 0'Rourke, aged 12, Star of Poltergeist , during Surgery. Andy Gibb of BeeGees fame, a Superstar of 19, died two days after his 30th birthday, a flame that burned only too brightly then slowly and quietly burned away. There were others, famous in their own fields like: Harvey Kuenn, C573 American League Batting Camp 1959. Cartoonist Milton Caniff, creator of Steve Canyon . Brook Benton 1563 the smooth voiced Balladeer and Composer and Olaf Wieghorst, most collected Western Artist and Sculptor. Into June and the end of the Academic Year, the plethora of Presidential hopefuls had gone, with only Bush left supreme for the Republicans and Dukakis as the main man for the Democrats, with Jesse Jackson disputing that fact right up to the line.

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