Dunkerton High School - Raider Yearbook (Dunkerton, IA)

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Baggy shirts with thin belts around the waist topped off the 1979 fashion, and for an added layered look vests were worn over the shirts. Disco bags and cigarette-styled jeans were two of the top fashion fads of the year. Disco bags were small, flashy satin bags with long straps worn across the body. Cigarette-styled jeans were straight-legged jeans for skinny-legged girls, worn with high heels. The most popular hair style for the guys was a layered cut, to make them seem the outdoor type. For girls, the popular style was called Le Savage. This was a layered cut, but curled all over like a layered afro. Movies were popular, although they weren’t seen as often due to the expensive admission price of $3.00. Well-known comedies of the year included Animal House, California Suite, and Every Which Way But Loose. Other popular movies included Grease, Ice Castles, and Superman. Popular 45's of the year held a disco beat. It was a good year for Donna Summer with top chart hits Last Dance and Heaven Knows, and the Bee Gees creating Too Much Heaven and Tragedy. Rod Stewart came back with Do You Think I’m Sexy? Don Akroyd and John Belushi, from Saturday Night Live, created the Blues Brothers and their hit song Soul Man. The new award-winning group of the year, A Taste of Honey, held high on the charts with Boogie Oogie Oogie. Television, the old standby, even had popular results in 1979. Mork and Mindy, Dallas, and Soap were the most popular during the year. Other favorites included Three's Company and How the West was Won. This year comedy seemed to be the theme instead of violence. Todd Salisbury Tim Schultz 16

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Worldwide Happenings... Pope Paul VI died on August 6, 1978. The Conclave then honored Albino Cardinal Luciani, Pope John Paul I, 65, who only served 33 days due to his death from a heart attack. The Conclave, after a long, tiring session, finally chose a non-Italian pope, the first in 455 years. Honored was Cardinal Karol Wojtyla from Poland; the 264th Pope who became John Paul II. Even though there had been religious cults around, they were not really recognized until December 4,1978, when news came from Guyana, South America that 900 people had committed mass suicide. These people were members of the People's Temple Cult at Jonestown, started by their leader Reverend Jim Jones. The Year 1979 was declared the International Year of the Child by the UNICEF organization. The Iran Conflict started a civil war; consequently, the Shah of Iran left and Muslim leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, took over. Due to the Muslims' beliefs, women’s rights were revoked. U.S. Foreign advisors and citizens were told to leave the country. There were brutal murders of people once associated with the Shah and the sale of oil dropped by four million barrels a day. An ever growing energy crisis in the U.S. worsened. Rising inflation raised the price of gasoline to 75c per gallon. Rumors have it that by 1980 it would be $1.00 per gallon. After years of fighting, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israel’s Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed a peace treaty March 26, 1979. Both received the Nobel Prize for 1978. The Equal Rights Amendment was given an extension by the Congress. 18