Chester High School - Annual Yearbook (Chester, PA)

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NATIONAL HOLIDAY — President Reagan signed a bill making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday. GRENADA INVASION — American Troops, along with a multinational force, invaded the island of Grenada after a coup and successfully secured it. CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION — Fireworks exploded over the Brooklyn Bridge to mark the 100th birthday of the giant span. COMPUTER COMPLICATIONS — Matthew Broderick starred as David Lightman, a high school student who inadvertently hooks his home computer into the U.S. government's North American Defense Command computer in the movie hit War Games. TAKES CHAMPIONSHIP — Defending champion Martina Navratilova defeated Andrea Jaeger to win the Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Championship for the fourth time. AP WIDE WORLD PHOTO

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Volume 71 Published by the Class of 1984 Chester High School Tenth and Barclay Street Chester, PA 19013

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FINAL M'A’S'H — The final episode of M'A'S'H aired in February of 1983. Original cast is shown on the left and closing cast on the right. GOING APE — A 3.000- pound, eight-story high, vinyl King Kong clung to the Empire State Building in New York to commemorate the movie made 50 years ago. TOY CRAZE — Cabbage Patch Kids, complete with birth certificates and adoption papers, were hot items with holiday shoppers CUP GOES DOWN UNDER — The yacht Australia II became the first challenger to take the America’s Cup in 132 years, defeating the defender, Liberty.’’ THERE SHE IS—In September a Syracuse University coed, Vanessa Williams, was crowned Miss America for 1984. FLASHY MOVIE — Nineteen-year-old Jennifer Beals starred in the hit movie Flashdance and firmly established the torn sweat shirt as one of the year's fashion fads.