Central Wesleyan College - Centralian Yearbook (Central, SC)

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88 THE YEAR IN REVIEW George Bush and running mate Dan Quale beat out Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen for the offices of President and Vice President of the United States • A fire blazed through Yellowstone for three months destroying 1.38 million acres • Midwest farmers lost $15 billion in the hottest, driest summer since the dustbowl • Hurricane Gilbert, whose winds reached 175 mph, crashed through the Caribbean, northern Mexico, and Texas causing $10 billion in damage • Superman turned 50 years old • Sonny Bono was elected mayor of Palm Springs • Tom Hanks scored big in Big (the movie) • Orel Hershiser pitched a record 59 scoreless innings to lead the Dodgers to victory in the World Series. Thirty two months after the Challenger disaster the spaceshuttle Discovery successfully launched America back into space • Heavyweight champ Mike Tyson fought his biggest fight against actress Robin Givens. The two divorced only months after their marriage • Billy Graham and 500 other religious leaders travelled to the Soviet Union to commemorate the 1,000th anniversary of Christianity in Russia • Walt Disney’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a combination of animation and live action, was the year’s top grossing film • In merry ole’ England, the Queen had her royal pooch sent to a dog psychologist to stifle its temper • The USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian commerical airliner killing 290 passengers • Universal Pictures released the highly controversial film The Last Temptation of Christ • Geraldo Rivera raked in big ratings and a broken nose when his “Teen Hatemongers” show trigged a studio-wide brawl • All eyes turned northward as worldwide forces united to free three California gray whales trapped in the ice in Burrow • Two of the three whales made it to the open sea • Former chief of Staff Donald Regan published his memoirs and claimed that Nancy Reagan planned the President’s schedule with the help of an astrologer • 26

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A lost munchkm visited Octobcrfest, There’s no place like Oz. way. So you jumped right in and went totally off the wall with ev- eryone else. At Central Wesley- an, fitting in is easy. All rules of conformity and peer pressure are done away with. The rule that does apply is this: don't put up walls unless you plan to go off them. College involves maturing and it's been said that no one is truly mature until he’s had his first long laugh at himself. A melding of the minds Joni. Steve, Miranda and Cindi seen from a dog's eye view j

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CWC soccer team finished season with 4 wins, 9 losses, and 1 tie. An earthquake registering 6.9 on the Richter scale leveled the Russian city of Armenia, killing tens of thousands. A small child survived two weeks under the rubble by sucking blood from the finger of her mother • Elvis Presley was sighted at a store in Michigan • Pan Am Flight 103 from Germany crashed in Lockerbee, Dec. 21, killing 259 passengers including over 20 Syracuse University students returning home for the holidays • A bomb downed the plane • The final aerial stunt of Italian jets at an annual air show' at Ramstein ended in horror as three of the jets collided sending one crashing into the crowd killing 70 people • Greg Louganis and Florence Griffith Joyner captured gold medals along with the hearts of the world in the summer Olympics at Seoul • Chris Davis started a new South Carolina legend by claiming to be attacked by a seven foot, two-legged lizard man near Lee County’s Ore Swamp • Jimmy Swaggart sinned • One out of three homes checked contained cancer causing radon • President Newby celebrated 25 years in education • Well, th-th-the — that’s all folks • 27