Dana Hills High School - Mast Yearbook (Dana Point, CA)

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As the year edged toward its conclusion, a sense of nostalgia prevad- ed the school. A drawback to living On the Cutting Edge of life is that when change inevitably intrudes, one is challenged to maintain or raise the standards to which he has become accustomed. Dana Hills students have become accustomed to the best ... in education, in geographic locale, in living standards and in friendships. The yearbook staff has written, photographed, designed, and drawn the best of ourselves into this yearbook in an ardent attempt to preserve the essence of this year. To the 500-plus departing seniors: Next year is up to you. 1 . Sophomore Britta Lewis looks forward to a summer of checking out the guys on the Club Post Nuclear dance floor. 2. Jennifer Davis. Dina Ross, Kristin Wojcik, and Jen Todaro mix studying and gossip- ing at lunch. 3. The pressure of studying for finals pushes Came Moss, if not over the edge, at least around the corner at the mall theaters. 4. Billy Hollister. David Yanes, Ian Furar. and Tim Gallagher epitomize the saying. If you ' ve got it, flaunt it, by showing off to a speechless crowd during lunch. 5. Before attempting a serve. Candance Crisp tells her opponent not to laugh. 6. Kirk Schoonover and Marc Stock leap off the edge. 367

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The year passed all too quickly. Wrapped up in the microcosm at Dana Hills, it was hard to grasp the many significant events that happened around the world. The year ' s top news story was the Presidential election. Amongst all the spitting, spoofing, and spin doctoring, we saw democracy at its best; after the mud had hardened and the spin had stopped, we saw George Herbert Walker Bush succeed fellow Republican Ronald Reagan as President. His running mate? Dan Quayle. Who ' s that? The school year also started with a flurry of excitement as the Summer Olympics began in Seoul, South Korea. The sprightly Janet Evans captured the hearts of Americans as she began her gold medal quest, and Greg Louganis came back from a head injury to take the golds in diving. Carl Lewis showed us that he could still run; of course, one of his golds was at the expense of Ben Johnson. The scandal that surrounded the latter ' s use of steroids cast a shadow over the games, as did the Korean melee at the boxing arena when one of the Korean coaches stopped using words and started using fists ... on the umpire. Unfortunately, there were tragedies that far outdistanced the miniscule problems in Seoul, in Soviet Armenia, the residents were devastated when an earthquake destroyed two cities and left tens of thousands dead and countless others homeless. The peaceful serenity of the holidays disintegrated a few days before Christmas 20,000 feet over the quiet village of Lockerbie, Scotland. The remnants of Pan Am Flight 103 rained down upon the countryside, and it was later determined that a bomb had been responsible for the explosion. Closer to home, a deranged young man sent shudders down everyone ' s back as he cold- heartedly entered a Stockton elementary school yard and ran- domly fired his assault rifle. The death of four innocent children sparked a nation-wide movement to ban the sale of assault rifles. Somewhat along these same lines, the wanton beating death of his adopted daughter by Joel Steinberg angered people throughout the nation, and some wondered how many other adopted and fostered children were slipping through our na- tion ' s net and falling prey to abusive parents. The Iran-Contra trials began, with Oliver North attempting to subpoena his friend, former President Reagan, and once again, the case became a muddled confusion. The world did hold its breath a few times this year. With the Libyan poison plant uproar and the U.S. downing two Libyan jets, it seemed as if fighting would surely break out. Author Solomon Rushdie became the center of controversy in the Mos- lem world as followers of Islam labeled his novel Satanic Verses blasphemous; the Ayotollah Khomeini offered over $5 million for Rushdie ' s head, once again setting countries against the Iranian regime. But the year was not sunk in glum despair. The entire world held Its breath as rescuers frantically tried every tactic in the book to rescue three gray whales: Soviet icebreaker finally provided the whales their freedom. 368