Dupo Community High School - El Tigre Yearbook (Dupo, IL)

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A rescue attempt on Friday, April 25 ended in tragedy and death. Equipment failure resulted in the mission being aborted. Upon retreat, one of the rescue helicopters crashed into a C-130 aircraft causing the deaths of eight Americans. Flags throughout Dupo were flown at half mast the entire weekend. Switching the tone of this rap-up to an activity that many of our students enjoy, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated five outstanding movies to compete for the title of Best Picture. The five nominees were Kramer vs. Kramer, All That Jazz, Breaking Away, Apocalypse Now, and Norma Rae. Norma Rae, starring Sally Field, is an adult, socially significant film about the coming of age of a mill worker in a company-dominated Southern town and her fight for better working conditions. Field's performance in the film was extraordinary enough to win her the honor of best actress. Breaking Away entered the Oscar race with a virtual no-name cast about the conflict between the townies in Bloomington Indiana and the Indiana University rich kids. This film exemplified the soul searching and decisions that many high school seniors must go through after graduation. For the second year in a row, Hollywood opened up to present the gruesome horrors of the Vietnam War. Apocalypse Now, a highly controversial film by Francis Coppola, produced one nominee for best supporting actor — Robert Duvall. The race was close but Duvall lost to Melvyn Douglas in the film Being There. All That Jazz, (also the theme for our yearbook — we didn 7 know about the film at the time) a film based roughly on the life of director-choreographer Bob Fosse swept Oscar off his feet (sorry about the pun!) by capturing four of the little gold statues. Each film was outstanding in its own right. However, when all the votes were tallied, Kramer vs. Kramer emerged victorious. Considered the heartbreak hit of 1979, this film about what happens when an unhappy wife walks out on her husband and six year old son, only to return 18 months later to fight for custody of the child, touched the hearts of audiences everywhere. Not only did this film capture the title of Best Picture, but its stars, Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, captured the titles of Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress. Futhermore, Justin Henry (the child in the film) made history as the youngest person ever to be nominated for an Oscar. A scene from the award winning movie Kramer vs. Kramer Artwork by Sharon Davenport

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Unable to shield ourselves in plastic bubbles and hide from the constantly changing world, we, the students of Dupo Community High School, must learn to deal with the problems of the world .. . and ourselves. In order to keep our book on the upswing , the 1980 El Tigre staff chose the theme All That Jazz. But in order to make our book the best possible record of the events of the past school year, the staff and editors felt it was necessary to include what was happening in the world around us. So in the next three pages we would like to give you an overview of the past school year. The most talked about event reared its evil head on Sunday, November 4, 1979. Four hundred and fifty Moslem students and other militants armed with sticks and clubs seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran. Some seventy people — sixty three of them Americans — were taken hostage. The militants demanded the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, receiving cancer treatments in New York, be returned for trial. The next months were ones that the world and our students will never forget. Oil imports from Iran were cut off and Iranian students were required to report to immigration authorities for possible deportation. Iranian assets in the U.S., estimated at about $5 billion, were frozen and both pro and anti-Iranian protests were frequent throughout the country. Americans here in Dupo joined the rest of the nation in showing support for the hostages by placing yellow ribbons throughout the town. The significance of the yellow ribbon goes back to the Tony Orlando and Dawn song Tie A Yellow Ribbon Around the Old Oak Tree where the loved one of a prisoner showed her support and love by placing one hundred yellow ribbons around a large oak tree. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Artwork by Janet Johnson World wide support for the U.S. was exemplified on January 29 when the Canadian government helped six American diplomats stage a daring escape from Iran. After hiding the Americans for three months in the Canadian Embassy, embassy officials provided the refugees with phony passports that fooled Iran.

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Left: U. S. President Jimmy Carter. Above: Starving Cambodian refugees. Artwork by Sharon Davenport. The Soviet invasion ol Alganistan Ie(t an important question in the minds of Americans everywhere: Will the draft be reinstated? With the memories of Vietnam still lingering in our minds, the ever perplexing problem of world peace and security has come into the spotlight once more. Young men, whom we associate with everyday, may face the possibility of being shipped home in plastic bags. The picture is not very pretty but the possibility still remains. Lately, peaceful methods have done little good in changing threatening situations. The U.S. boycott of the Moscow Olympics has not affected the situation in Afganistan. Athletes who have trained for many years were crushed at the announcement. Many say that politics and sports should not be mixed. However, history has proven otherwise many times before. To add to the problem of foreign intervention, refugees fleeing from their homelands are virtually starving to death. Food, clothing, and shelter are not adequate enough to keep up with the growing numbers. If the world does not act soon, it will just be another case of too little, too late.