Booker T Washington High School - Hornet Yearbook (Tulsa, OK)

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I.. l Monolith Downtown Tulsa had been changing for many moons and things were no different this year. Art deco architecture dominated Tulsa in the thirties. The old Skagg's building, a typical example of this complex building design, was torn down with many people complaining about the destruction of such a work of art. This particular building may have gone the way of all incovenient treasures, but many of the other art deco buildings, like City Hall, were renovated and reopened. ln the light of this bout with history, and up from the ruins, City Services built a new office building. They planned to make it the largest one in Oklahoma, thus taking away the Williams Center's glitter. Oral Roberts continued with his mission in south Tulsa and the City of Faith hospital became more than just girders. But Oral had some special help. It came to him in a vision: 900 feet tall, Jesus spoke to Oral and lifted the hospital in His hands as a sign that He would raise the City of Faith to completion. Publicity abounded and dollars flowed into the hospital. The beautiful people of Tulsa increased their exodus to the Fliver Parks. In a frenzy of falling children and showoffs, skaters rolled along the polluted Arkansas. Hippies began to reappear as they played their various instruments on the parks' benches. Tulsa kept struggling to make itself a respectable metropolis, but what could it do about all that red mud? 173

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if lt a totally We had three m slighttwl In spit outside ls anyone out there, It seemed that when we were in school, we were set different place than the rest of the world. OI yegr began in September instead of January. T busine s hours were from 8:30 to 3:15, not 9:00 to 5: various days off during the school year an nth vacation between years, as opposed tot weeks off for the average businessman ont outside wor of our disjunciton from society, news from t id leak in because, alas, there were still af bugs i the System. Sony and his friends showed some things that some of us were shocked by, so merel' stared with the nirvana of television-induc brain- t and others just rolled over and took a n hom screen v hey gave us hours of feeble excuses to av dpwork felection coverage probably got a lot mile ge in the old but this is more important th homework departme Whetner noticed or ignored, what flashed onto t ras to shape the years of our lives to come. ' 5 ID 45 9 9 !'I'I' N 5 4 343' s Q I . .9 V M lr EF Cl I fddgic r' 'J ,A e- i e i - J join us as we make a toast to reall

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The revolution of l 980 ldentsareelected ever four ears but itisn'toftenthatthe political Pres' y y , face of the country changes as drastically as it did Ever since the beginning of the campaigning last year, pol this year. ls such as Gallop, Harris and New York TimesfCBS were going up and down in their reports on who was the most popular with America: Ronald Reagan or Jimmy Carter. Carter was even ahead a few weeks before thlie election, 'according to the polls. But, in a huge gesture o l-can-change-my-mind-if-l-want-to-iveness, Carter ended u royally. Only six states and the District of Columbia voted for Cart received 489 electorial votes, 219 over the amount nee The success wasn't confined to only the presidency. For the fi 26 years, the Senate was under Republican control and th American bombing rg Reagan ed to win. rst time in House of Representatives' number of GOP members grew coisiderably. Some blamed the immense defeat of Democrats in general early concession speech. Time zone changes made the differenc as Carter threw in his towel, polls were still open in the western country. When people found out that Carter had lost before n Carter's because, arts ofthe .he had a Y chance to vote, they decided to vote just a straight Republican ballot. This brought many of the other Democrats running for various offices who had a chance down with the President's defeat. The Moral Majority emerged as a large influence in our country. They published a list of who they thought were the unproper candidates according to their beliefs. Don Nickle supported by them, won on a strong platform of conservatism art of the roper and , strongly and down home religion. These included beliefs such as the need for the gisposal of the theory of evolution in our schools and replacing it with th Humorists ran around taking advantage of the strange asp theory of Genesis. cts of the a an was seen as someone who could act like afpresident election. Re g better than anyone else. Jokes were made about the First Lady-elect, Nancy, wanting the Carters to move out so she could get on with her remodeling of the White House. She was also named the b?t dressed WOfT'l n of 1980. Carter's administration made a scramble to free the hostages in Iran the last months of its term. The four days of festivities fo inauguration included balls countrywide and the largest firewo in the country's history. On the day ofthe actual inauguration, r Reagan's rks display vord came that the hostages were b ing freed. The process took days and lasted into the beginning o Reagan's presidency. Since the freeing of the hostages had really happened during Carter's administration, the glorious first days of presid ncy were somewhat dampened f r Reagan. But to show we hadn't forgotten our new President, Tulsa's U F station, channel 23, played Bedtime for Bonzo, one of his movies, on in uguration 174 night. P Q 15' Z ,gfc'Qi??'5 l- ' ibf'?W.'-..i .51 l N ' i il, - . .'Q 1lf ' . K