Curry College - Curryer Yearbook (Milton, MA)

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1988 SUMMER OLYMPICS Seoul, Korea

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Forest fires spread through- out the western part of the country in the summer of 1988, destroying millions of acres of national parkland. The most hea vily damaged was Yellowstone National Park. Hurricane Gilbert rose out of the Caribbean like a giant wind storm in late September. By the time it lost its hurricane status over northeastern Mex- ico. It had killed more than 300 people, left hundreds of thousands homeless and caused bil- lions of dollars in damage to the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico and the United States. Nature ' s Wrath The summer of 1 988 was hit with the worst drought in many years. Through- out the midwest, farmers watched helplessly as their crops went dry. -Wi

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The 1988 Summer Olym- pics in Seoul, South Ko- rea opened with a dra- matic and dazzling cere- mony. A colorful, three- hour spectacle mixing ancient Korean rituals with space-age technol- ogy kicked off 1 6 days of athletic competition. Canadian Ben Johnson, left, looks over at arch rival Carl Lewis at the fin- ish of the 1 00-meter race in the 1988 Summer Olympics. Johnson won the gold medal but was later disqualified after traces of an anabolic ster- oid were found in his sys- tem.