Charlestown High School - Pirates Yearbook (Charlestown, IN)

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Sports dominated everyday life. For every season there was a sport. With summer and fall was baseball, and the Philadelphia Phillies, led by Tug McGraw, cap- tured the 1980 World Series. Fall and winter brought football and the Super Bowl XV winners, the Oakland Raiders. Winter and spring had basketball, and Indiana LOVES basketball. In 1981, basket- ball loved Indiana, as the I.U. Hoosiers won the NCAA. In pro- fessional basketball, the Boston Celtics walked away with the NBA title. With the end of spring came Memorial Day and the Indianapolis 500, but a conflict came to the Indy. Though Bobby Unser crossed the finish line first, he had violated a racing rule, so Mario Andretti was declared win- ner. Movies were still the most popu- lar form of weekend entertain- ment. Some of the best liked were 9 to 5, Hazz Singer, and ttExcaliber. Goldie Hawn made a comeback with box office hits, ttPrivate Benjamin and hSeems Like Old Times, while ttStar Wars had its sequel, hThe Em- pire Strikes Back. The movie year ended, as always, at the Academy Awards. Sissy Spacek was voted best actress for hCoal Miner's Daughter, while Robert DeNiro was best actor for ttRag- ing Bull. The best picture of the year was Robert Redford's direc- torial premiere ttOrdinary Peo- ple.

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Country Music, IU, and Ladies and Gentlemen . . . the CH5 Yearbook proudly presents tdrumroll, pleasei the 1980-81 en- tertainment. The TV season was late getting started because of an actors' strike, but once it did begin JR. Ewing dominated the tube once more, as the season began with the famous ttWho shot J.R.? and ended with ttWho did J.R. shoot? hDallas started a new trend of evening soaps, giving us xtFlamingo Road and itDynasty. Other popular new shows were tiHill Street Blues and ttBosom Buddies. Music made a switch. Rock-n-roll was still here to stay, with ACtDC hBack in Black, uJudas Priest, REO ttHigh Infidelity, and the late John Lennon's tiDouble Phantasy. But country and west- ern came to the forefront as America's favorite. WAMZ was Kentuckiana's number one radio station, and stars like Kenny Rog- ers and Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Barbara Mandrell, and Hank Williams, Jr. were at the top of the cowboy craze. SUPERSTAR ISIAH THOMAS leads the Hoosiers of LU. to the N.C.A.A. championship. MARY TYLER MOORE is shown in a scene from academy award winner Ordinary People. IUDAS PRIEST was a big rock group of the year. WHO SHOT J.R.? TV fans around the world were kept in sus- pense for months. tarry Hagman stars as LR. Ewing. THE DEATH of Dallas star Jim Davis Uoclo saddened the cast of the show and millions of viewers. SUPREME STAR of country music, Willie Nelson, also got into movies with Honeysuckle Rose. 1 24

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AROUND THE WORLD . . . SHOT-ln May, the world was rocked by the assassi- nation attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II by a Turkish gunman. HUNGRY-Trying to be declared political prisoners, four Irish Republican Army members died after a hun- ger strike. CONFLICT-The US. and Russia were involved in El Salvador's Civil War. ON STRIKE-The Polish Labor Union, Solidarity, staged a number of work strikes against the government. HOT SPOT-Syria and Lebanon joined forces in their fight against Israel. ELECTED-The French people elected a new presi- dent, Socialist Francois Mitterand, who defeated for- mer president Valery Giscard-D'Estaing. HOOKED-England's Prince Charles finally chose a bride, Lady Diana Spencer. ACROSS THE NATION . . . DEFEATED-Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale were defeated by the Republican ticket'of Ronald Reagan and George Bush for the Presidency and Vice Presi- dency of the US. FREE-On President Reagan's inauguration day, January 20, the American hostages in Iran were released after 444 days of captivity. Americans could finally wave their yellow ribbons in triumph. FIRED UPON-While leaving a press conference at a Washington hotel on March 30, President Reagan was shot in the chest. Also shot by John Hinckley were press secretary James Brady, who had a critical brain wound, a Secret Service agent, and a Washington po- lice officer. SUCCEEDED-NASA'S newest experiment, the shuttle plane. The first reusable spacecraft made a successful flight under the direction of astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen. POWERFUL-The new movement, the tiMoral Major- ity, took an avid interest in politics, claiming responsi- bility for the downfall of many prominent politicians who disagreed with their policies. sassina W i As