Big Sandy High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Big Sandy, MT)

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Records Of The 1982-83 poisoned over-the-counter drugs were the cause of great anxiety and worry as Tylenol led the way to making non- prescription drugs safer and “tamper resistent” almost 1000 innocent people died at the hands of the Lebanese Christian force as a result of the Israeli PLO War. The massacre raised many questions about the ability to trust Israel, who was expected to have encouraged the massacre General Elections held in November of 1982 indicated a possible landslide victory for Democrats in 1984 The Environmental Protection Agency came under the sword as President Reagan began replacing top officials in the department who were accused of a number of wrongdoings For the second year in a row, mud slides plagued the California coastline, causing many to leave their homes and belongings Queen Elizabeth of England traveled by ship to the city of San Francisco in March of 1983. This was the Queen’s first visit to the United States since the early 1970’s because of severe flooding, many residents of Mississippi were forced to evacuate their homes due to severe ditoxin poisoning in the water system the Washington Redskins won the 1982 Super Bowl over Dallas. It was the Redskins first time in the play offs and they succeeded in gaining the title Former auto giant, John Delorean, came down with a crash as he became entangled in a cocaine deal that cost him his Irish Auto Company as well as a number of land holdings

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The Big Sandy High School Annual Staff J. Pursley K. Geyer S. Bitz B Kulbeck D. Robertson $. Ament B. Thompson D. Hettrick S. Solberg A Pearson S. Craig R. Williams C Turk R. Williams B. Thompson, Advisor Has Recorded For You The Events Of 1983 Table Of Contents Grade School Students, Teachers, and Misc High School Junior High Faculty, Administration, and Staff Clubs and Organizations Music Sports Carnival, Prom, and Academics Seniors Editor’s Message This years annual staff has given a lot of their time and effort to “record” the events of the 1982-83 school year for your viewing. There are numerous events that occurred during the past school year that may be forgotten if they were not recorded in this book. We hope that there are few mistakes and that each event was recorded in such a manner that everyone is satisfied. It takes a great deal of time and hard work to prepare a nice annual, and we hope that this year s annual is as nice as possible. 1 would like to thank a few people for putting in extra time in helping me. These people were there to help finish other people’s pages, do extra pages, take pictures, and even sell ads when they didn’t have to. So thanks for all the help and support, Kari, SueEllen, Camille, and Dorie-you’re great to work with! PP. 5- 8 PP. 19-40 PP 41-50 PP. 51-66 PP. 67 84 PP. 85-94 PP. 95-110 PP. 111-120 PP. 121-128 Julie Pursley Senior Editor

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Current Events the unexpected death of Princess Grace brought the world shattering down around the residents of Monoco. The Princess had been a successful actress in the United States who gave up her career to live a “fairy tale” life as wife to Prince Raineer of Monoco Southern State residents fought hard to protect themselves and their homes from total destruction as floods eroded the land and destroyed homes Ghandi and E.T. swept the 1983 Oscars with the former receiving eight Academy Awards and the latter winning four unemployed percentages rose to the hiqhest mark since 1929. Over 12.5 million people were without jobs in December of 1982 another attempt was made to breed Panda Bears in captivation. Although this was successfully achieved in 1981, it has not yet been done in the United States President Reagan of the U.S. met with the President of the Philippines. This was the Philippian Presidents first visit to our country and marked an end to once precarious relations Barney Clark, a discrete dentist, became famous as he was the first receipient of an artificial heart. Clark lived with the heart for a number of weeks but unfortunately died the death of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev left a number of questions, if not riddles, for the world to answer. The entrance of Yari Andropov into Brezhnev’s position increased American awareness of the threat of the Soviet Union to its security Texas became the first state to use lethal injections as a method of capital punishment. To date at least two men have died by this fate. It is expected that more states will begin to incorporate this “more humane and painless” way of punishment