Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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IN AN UPSET FOR THE SENIORS, the sopho¬ more class took the honors of best Homecoming float. The seniors avenged the loss later. PLAYING AGAIN ON HER OLD HOME court, Nancy Cowan returned with the IU women’s bas¬ ketball team for an intra-squad game.

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Youll Never UESS What Happened! Wow! What a year! Maddie had twins and David married Demi Moore showing a per¬ sonal side of America’s loving, hating Moon¬ lighting couple. U2 sold out every show and the Reagan-Gorbachev summits headed in the right direction. For the first time in histo¬ ry, Crown Point had seven valedictorians and an a la carte lunch line. And, believe it or not, students had only one snow day. While these firsts are upbeat, other events darkened a seemingly good year. Walter Pay- ton retired from professional football. The stock market suffered its biggest loss since the Great Crash of 1929. Eighteen-month-j old Jessica McClure fell into a 22-foot well in Midland, Texas. The entire nation felt con¬ cern for her as well as Darlwin Carlisle, th nine-year-old Gary, Indiana, girl who lost both her legs below the knees after beinj locked in an attic by her mother. Gifts an money poured into the hospitals where th girls were being kept as the media carriei their stories across the country. Positive as- (continuted on p. 4) IN CROWN POINT the bulldog represents the fa¬ vorite breed of dog. Mr. Pete Kutsegeras’s bulldog sports a loyal red sweater. 2 Theme PERFORMING AS A TALENTED MUSICIAN FOOTBALL SPIRIT GREW TO AMAZING pro requires a consistent day-to-day dedication. Fresh- portions. The Bulldogs continued to reign victorij man Kevin Johnson practices his violin. ous ending with a 10-1 record.

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You’ll Never UESS JVhat Happened! pects of these events do exist. Walter Payton said he might come back to help if the Chica¬ go Bears need him. Experts have taken great¬ er precautions to prevent another crash of the market. SADD, Students Against Driving Drunk, gained fame as well as wide acceptance through publicity and the guidance of their sponsor, English teacher Mrs. Diane Lange. The officers appeared on Channel 7 news dis¬ cussing peer pressure to drink. Another form of support to teens came in the form of IM¬ PACT, a group of teachers specially trained to observe and pinpoint students with a pos¬ sible substance abuse problem. Bulldog fans had good reasons to be ex¬ cited. The football team boasted a 10-1 rec¬ ord and six wrestlers qualified for the state meet. The Lady Bulldogs finished their sea son with sectional and regional titles. From the beginning, the year proved that it would be one of excitement and pain, success 1 and failure. On the national level, events such as the presidential primary elections across the country and military intervention in the Honduras kept people wondering. Lo¬ cally students continued to guess about such issues as a stricter attendance policy and an extended school year.