East High School - Quill Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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As time rolls on, a person often finds it hard to remember the past. Even a past which has greatly influenced a future eventually becomes hard to reminisce. A yearbook is one of the few things that enable us to momentarily turn back the hands of time. In recognition of this, we would like to dedicate this volume of the Quill to the yearbook staffs of the past 75 years. For nearly a century, East High students have worked to produce yearbooks that might better enable us to recollect that great East High pride and that everlasting Scarlet Fever. The 1981 Quill Yearbook Staff 2 DEDICATION

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Smoke pours from the casino area of the MGM Grand Hotel in Ash, smoke and millions of tons of Mount St. Helens are hurled skyward as th Las Vegas, Nevada, as fire races through the hotel ' s lower levels. volcano erupts with atomic-bomb force. The volcano, in northern Washington state The blaze proved to be one of the year ' s outstanding fatalities. exploded numerous times throughout the year. The nation overall . . . Year of hope, freedom, death, destruction Many new hopes were established in 1981. These hopes were built through the election of a new Presi- dent and with the freedom found by refugees and former hostages. Unfortunately, these hopes weresha- dowed by such devastations as kid- nappings, disasters and death. One of the biggest freedoms estab- lished during the year came through the release of 52 American hostages held 444 days in Iran. The hostages were welcomed home in January, but memories lingered of the eight ser- vicemen killed in an aborted attempt to rescue the hostages in April, 1980. An overwhelming destruction hit the MGM Grand as fire raged through the Las Vegas hotel and casino. Although the blaze never reached above the second floor, smoke killed 83 persons and injured 334. Former Beatle John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York City apartment in early December, 1980. Lennon ' s assassin pleaded innocent to the crime on grounds of insanity. Lennon is shown here at a 1972 peace rally. 4 OPENING