Clairemont High School - Calumet Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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Don no Rica ond Gory Hort... tort lop of Houry? This trodar fail lha taiwion of Ortobar 19, 1987. Otrrar North, o pillor of linearity. Fawn was Oflia's parsoool popar shreddar. Dubbed “The Year of the Bimbo,” 1987 was filled with heodlines about a cerYoin type of womon. Every time you opened a magazine, you saw a bimbo — just how much you saw depended on the woman in question. Everyone got in on the act, from prominent political figures to prominent religious” figures. Gory Hort hod Donna Rice, Jim Bakker had Jessica Hahn, and Ollie North had Fawn Hall. The rally- ing cry of women in the news wos I am not a bimbo! but in a society that idolized Vanna White, how many of us were willing to believe? STUOCHT LIFE 27

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fierce de cultA, y u Every year has its scandals, heroes, ond tragedies, but 1987-88 will stand out in our minds as a year which wos definitely balanced between the inspiring and the sorrowful, innovations and obstocles. The following compilation highlights only some of the events of the year, but these ore the events that characterize the year 1987-88. tasks Hahn, tha Bokktr bimbo. The political highlight of the decode wos the Ironscam scondol and the ensuing trial. The pro- ceedings mode a star out of boy-next-door Lt. Col. Oliver North. With a toothy grin and clean-cut sinceri- ty, the Lt. won the hearts ond often the foith of America. Short-range missiles were banned during the December Reogon-Gorbochev summit. The agreement, mode in Washington, D.C., specified that short-range missiles would be removed both in NATO countries and all Soviet bloc nations. Justice Robert Bork was appointed last year as a Supreme Court justice, but foiled to receive Senate con- firmation. The popular view wos that Bork wos too con- servative on such issues as reproductive fights and equal rights for men and women. The crash of 1987, now being characterized os a panic, is now being upheld historically os creating a whole new financial reality. On Block Monday, Oct. 19, the market hod a record drop: some 800 points.

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 Potiont Zero wos the first person diogrv sod os hoving AIDS. The former flight otteodont was reportedly portly responsible lor the quid spreod of the disease. Oiognosed in 1978, Potient Zero foiled to remedy his extremely promiscuous behavior. On the contrary, in his yeors of flying oround the world. Potient Zero increosjd his octhity in reoction to the unfoirness of his hoving this terminol diseose. We oil got to know Boby Jessko lost yeor when the 18-month-old child fell into o deep, norrow obondoned well. Rescue efforts begon immedioteiy, but progress was slow due to tedious procedures necessory in order to keep from further injuring the child. Two days ofler the occident, Boby iessko wos lifted from the hole — tired ond hungry, but healthy. Entertainer liberoce died lost year of Acquired Immune Oefkiency Syndrome (AIDS). The singer pwnist las Vegas showman wos known for his outlandish costuming and unique style. Pope Jtfm Pod II mode on official visit to Americo in 1987. The heod of the (otholk Church, the Pope held moss in major American cities. His peocefd visit left mony inspired. (omedton Jackie Gleason, 71, died lost yeor, as did artist Andy Warhol, director John Huston, ond octor doncer Roy 8olger, to name a few of those who have left us. Surrogote parenting coused mojor controversy this year. The Boby M trid is the most famous of the conflicts, and olthough the birth mother sued for custody, the child remained with the biological father ond his wife. The situation in the Persian Gulf involved our military this yeor when Kuwait osked the U.S. to reflog its tankers, thereby taking them under Amerkon protection. Since the alternative wos to let the Soviet Union get involved, Amerka offered her protection to Kuwait ond found herself in the middW of the Persion Gulf crisis. Boby Jessica after her ordeal. Potient Zero... the one who storied it oil. Entertainer liberoce, who deported this world this yeor. 28 STUDENT LIFE