Columbus East High School - Altis Yearbook (Columbus, IN)

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Helping at the Girls Club brought Ju- nior Beth Lian enjoyment Beth passed away due to complications from the flu. Sophomore Brenda Thomas cheers at Homecoming with fellow torchettes. Brenda was killed in an automobile ac- cident while participating in a band contest. Columbus Mayor Nancy Ann Brown welcomes America's Ambassador to Algiers Ulric Haynes home. Senior exchange student Daniel Scho- nenberger of Luxemburg wears a hat and tie to show school spirit. “They were released a year too late.” Carrie McClure, junior “I’m glad the hostages are home. It was worth the wait.” Trisha Kelly, senior “The hostage crisis served one good purpose. It brought the people of America together as nothing has before.” Tonya Rondot, senior

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Clockwise: Brian Barnes and Link Behymer, Link Behymer, Patrick Kiel. Wiley Umphress. Brian Perry. but how we play the game

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Black armbands were replaced by yellow rib- bons on Tuesday, January 20, when news came of the release of the Americans who had been held hostage in Iran. Four hundred and forty-four days earlier Iranian militants had stormed the American Embassy in Tehran to take the Americans. Months of negotiations had often falsely raised the hopes of the hostages and their families, only to find that their release was still not possible. The last few days of waiting were the hardest, wondering if everything would really work out this time. During the last days of Jimmy Carter’s term as president, the final agreement with the Iranian government was reached. The hostages were not actually freed, however, until moments after Ron- ald Reagan had taken his oath as the fortieth President of the United States. Freedom came to the hostages just as the transition of power was completed in America. Students and faculty at East joined in the na- tionwide celebration of the hostages’ return home. The community of Columbus showed its joy in many ways, from free yellow ribbons to free cakes to free ice skating. Columbus expressed pride in its own Ulric Haynes February 6 with a special celebration in the Commons. He assisted in negotiations and welcomed freed Americans in Germany as the US Ambassador to Algiers. ’’I think they (the hostages) deserved every bit of the attention they got,” commented Carrie McClure, a junior. Some people didn’t share that opinion, how- ever. Les Jackman, a junior, said, “I thought the hostages got too much attention. The POW's de- served more attention than the hostages did; they had to go through a lot more. Even through the hard times and trials, the na- tion made it. Perhaps it was in part because of the hard times. Said McClure of the crisis, The whole situation helped the nation to really unite. For once we were all concerned about the same thing. We weren’t at odds with each other. People we'll always remember