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

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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

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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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is year also saw the departure ot all Soviet lops from war-torn Afghanistan. The new !alth bomber was unveiled, supposedly a ve- ;le to put the U.S. in the arms race. However, 3se blacl boomerangs seemed to have some 3jor flaws, including their snail ' s pace speed, 5ir enormous price tag, and new technology it makes the bomber, according to some, a offin on wings. sports, the Dodgers won the World Series d the ' 49 ' ers beat the Bengals to become perbowl champs. The big sports news was inadian Wayne Gretzky coming to the Kings. ack, that deadly killer, became so infamous at the government tried everything to stop its read. Nonetheless, the drive-by-shootings d skyrocketing murders throughout the na- n attested to the fact that we seemed to be ;ing the war against the drugs. en there were the events that caught every- e ' s eyes. For one, Oprah Winfrey no longer 3d the picture screen; she lost 65 pounds on r highly publicized diet. What can be said lOut Geraldo? His sensationalism cost him a oken nose when white supremacist punks igled with black leaders. Speaking of fight- 3, Mike Tyson just didn ' t seem to know when stop. According to most standards, the box- only fights in the ring; Tyson was fighting two luts, one in the ring, the other in the bedroom, the end, Tyson won in the ring but the judges ve Robin Givens the $125 million decision. This year also saw the box officers bombarded with movies of every sort. From the controver- sial Last Temptation of Christ and Mississippi Burning to the every thought-provoking Police Academy Six (that many?) and Nal ed Gun, we were exposed to movies, movies, and more movies. And look out for Batman. And to think, all of that happened in a mere ten months. It only shows that the old adage Time flies when you ' re having fun still rings as true as ever (unless you don ' t like school), -e.c. 1. Greg Louganis took home a pair of gold medals and seven catgut stitches for his performance. 2. Like an alien meteorite, one of Pan Am ' s engines lies in a crater in the town of Lockerbie, Scotland. Unfortu- nately, the gore was strewn everywhere else. 3. The AK-47 lies on the Stockton road where four inno- cent children were mowed down by a deranged luna- tic. 4. Images of fear were forever etched in the faces of the survivors of the Stockton school yard massacre when a deranged man killed tour children with an assault rifle. 5. A haggard Michael Dukakis tried to salvage his elec- tion, only to be defeated on Nov. 4. 6. The butt of many a political joke in ' 88- ' 89: Vice- President Dan Quayle. 7. Mikhail Gorbechev surveyed the devastation in Soviet Armenia after the earthquake. 8. Yussiv Arafat ' s insistence on addressing the U.N. made the entire council go to Geneva, as President Reagan and Secretary Schultz wouldn ' t allow him in the country. 9. Bush ' s nominee for secretary of defense. John Tower, was rejected by Congress, a blow to the new adminis- tration. 10. The new President speaks of a kinder and gentler nation. I 369 m