Ellendale High School - Redbird / Microphone Yearbook (Ellendale, ND)

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WHAT WOWED” US IN 79? What ’ ' wowed ' us during the 1978-79 school year? Check it and see,..The disco scene, popular all over the country, hit EHS making way for curly hair, satin attire, and spiked heels ..Double or triple piercing of the lobes went in one ear and out the other...Louise Brown, the world ' s first test tube baby, was born in England on July 5, 1978...EHS udents became addicted to little white McDonald spoons.. The mass suicide-murder of tha religious cult led by the Reverand Jones in Jonestown, Guyana hit the world by surprise...Fuzzy Zoeller upset Ed Sneed in the US Masters Golf Tournament...Ellendale ' s first community theater, the ACT I Players, was established...A good share of the EHS junior and senior girls skipped school lunches for a less-fattening diet of Figurines and Tab... Animal House , starring John Belushi, tickled our funny bones and started ideas of toga parties and food fights ...Within a span of a few months, the Catholics and ProtesUnts alike witnessed the death of two Popes, and the extremely quick descision of the third Pope, Pope John Paul II, by the college of Cardinals... Mork and Mindy hit the tube, spreading such expressions as Humor-arr, arr , and Manu Nanu ...EHS got Van Halen fever...A DC 10 crashed shortly after take-off from Chicago killing 274 people and causing the terhporary grounding of all US DC 10 airplanes...President Jimmy Carter was instrumental in the peace treaty signed by Begin of Isreal and Sadat of Egypt...Coastal upset Spectacular Bid in the running of the Belmont Stakes...Everyone became wild and crazy with help from Steve Martin...EHS students continously fought over green M M ' s... Paradise By The Dashboard Light by Meatloaf got EHS students singing at the top of our lungs...The gas shortage caused gas prices to soar to over $1.00 a gallon In many parts of the US, along with gas rationing and the truck drivers to strike...The Bee Gees had hit after hit after hit after hit record... Halloween kept everyone from sleeping for two weeks...A highly dangerous hydrogen bubble at the nuclear plant located on Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania caused government Inspections of other plants around the country and more antinuke demonstrations headed by celebrities such as Jane Fonda ... Saturday Night Live , complete with The Coneheads , The Nerds and Rosanna Rosannadanna gave us outrageously funny television entertainment...Notable persons that died during the year included Will Geer of The Waltons , Israeli politician Golda Meir, and the well-loved John Wayne...In the World Series, the favored Los Angeles Dodgers lost to the New York Yankees...Academy Award winning movies the Deer Hunter and Coming Home expressed the tradgedy of the Vietnam War...Disco music such as Macho Man and In The Navy by the Village People, Last Dance and McArthur Park by Donna Summer, and several tunes by the Bee Gees soared on the music charts, but were not to be out done by rock and roll, the country ' s standing favorite... Grease brought nostalgic ideas of the 50 ' s to the young...EHS students began to exclairn unreal! around the halls...EHS girls read paperback books 500 pages thick in some cases...Cheryl Tiegs was a hit with the EHS boys as well as the rest of the country...The United States and Russia continued the strategic arms limitation Ulks (SALT)...The rock group Kiss made their first television movie Kiss Meets the Phantom ...Dolly Parton was big news in the country-western charU...Nancy Lopez, a rookie golfer hit the greens in an astounding winning streak ...Punk rock hit the music business with a shock, leaving us wonder-punk, funk or junk?... The Buddy Holly Story became a motion picture...There was extensive flooding in the Red River Valiev of North Dakota this spring causing thousands of dollars worth of damage...Several times during the year, farmers throughout the US boycotted farm prices by driving tractors to Washington DC to demonstrate...Billy Joel contributed many hit records and gained a nice following... For the first time in several years, an RCA Rodeo was held at the fair grounds in Ellendale-this time for Round-Up Days... After many years, China and the United States normalized relations...Muhammed All and Leon Spinks gave boxing fans a bout to remember, with Spinks emerging as the new world heavyweight champion...Fran Tarkenton retired as the quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings...1979 was the year of the child, prompting many recording stars to entitle the proceeds of hit records to go to UNICEF.. And how wow was your year? 4 1979 Recdbird [High School Annual, Ellendale North Dakota]

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GOOD TIMES AIASA.33 Athletic Banquet .47 Awards Night .32 Band .34 Boy ' s Basketball .25 Cardinal.20 Cheerleaders .30 Chorus .36 Drama Speech .........16 E Club . ......32 FHA .:.33 Football .10 Girl ' s Basketball . 13 Golf . 46 Graduation. 34 Homecoming.8 Intramurals .48 Junior High Activities .30 Prom .40 Redbird.18 Spring Fever Dance .39 Student Council .21 Student Managers . 32 Track . 42 Wrestling.22 GOOD FRIENDS Community.78 Faculty Administration .74 Freshmen.70 Junior High . 72 Juniors.86 School Employees .73 Seniors .38 Sophomores .88 Sponsors.80 THBLE OF 1979 Redbird [High School Annual, Ellendale North Dakota] 3 CONTENTS

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