Garrett High School - Aeolian Yearbook (Garrett, IN)

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downing of Korean jet kills 30 Americans Indiana University wins its | seventh Big Ten basketball title in 12 years and the Washington Redskins defeat the Miami Dol- phins to win Super Bowl XVII. Boys pierce left ears and girls rip up sweatshirts a la ‘‘The Flashdance Look’’. Children play with Cabbage Patch dolls if their parents can find one. Cas- sette tapes now comprise the best-selling form of music. Teens rush home from school to watch the super-popular MTV and their favorite “VJ” and make sure they tune in on Tuesday nights to see ‘‘The A- Team”. 1983 fades into 1984. Sud- denly GHS discovers wha t New York has been doing all along— breakdancing. Something hap- pens somewhere and a Doors (super-group of the late ’60’s) re- vival begins. Footloose gives inspiration to dancers every- where. Movies to see are Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Romancing the Stone, Sixteen Candles, Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Purple Rain, and The Karate Kid. Robert Duvall wins an Os- car for Best Actor (Tender Mer- cies), and Linda Hunt wins a Best Supporting Actress award for arole in which she portrayed a man (The Year of Living Dangerously), and Terms of Endearment sweeps the major awards—Best Picture, Best Di- rector, Best Supporting Actress (Shirley MacLaine). Garfield ET 3138 stays well-loved, and Strawber- ry Shortcake is bowing out. Several train wrecks encour: age investigation, and several international hi-jackings also take place. Los Angeles hosts the Summer Olympics, and United States competitors rack up the gold medals. Miss Amer- ica, Vanessa Williams, steps off her throne in response to public: ity of pornographic photo- graphs of her. “Late Night With David Let- terman” and ‘Thicke of the Night” (starring Alan Thicke) war it out for viewer suprem- acy. Three men struggle to claim the Democratic nomina- tion for Presidential candida- cy—Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, and Jesse Jackson. Mon- i Gen Adm - e TICK Ue dale wins the nomination and selects a woman, Geraldine Fer- raro, as his running mate. An oil spill ruins the tourist season in Galveston, Texas. The 30’s look is officially ‘in’. Girls continue to worship Michael Jackson, and Prince scores with a hit album and movie Purple Rain. The summer of ’84 will seep into autumn, and finally, with winter, into 1985. —Michelle Peters Year in Review 23

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ee Year in Review As school year begins, Soviet It’s 1983 ... Ronald Reagan is the fearless leader of the Unit- ed States. On April 18, a bomb explosion in the U.S. Embassy in Beirut wounds more than 80 people and kills 63. When Hurri- cane Alicia hits Houston, Tex- as, in August six people die. United States and Soviet Union relations are more tense than usual, stemming from an inci- dent in which Soviets shoot down an wandering Korean jet on the first day of September; 30 Americans perish. News- Sentinel (of Fort Wayne, Indi- ana) editorial page editor Ralph Daniel Osborne, his wife, and his 11-year old son are blud- geoned to death in their home. Anorexia Nervosa is at all time high, and singer Karen Carpen- ter dies of the disease. Actors David Niven (73) and Buster Crabbe (75), movie star Gloria Swanson (84), newscaster Frank Reynolds (59), Jessica Savitch (36), and boxing great Jack Dempsey (87) leave fans, friends, and family in mourning. The nation watches The Day After, a nuclear war mes- sage warning. A Chorus Line becomes the longest running musical on Broadway, and Re- turn of the Jedi nets $235 mil- lion by the end of November. Some highly acclaimed movies are The Right Stuff, The Big Chill, Terms of Endearment, The Year of Living Danger- ously, Silkwood, and Risky Business. Gandhi wins the Oscars for Best Picture, Direc: tor, and Actor (Ben Kingsley). Meryl Streep wins Best Actress for Sophie’s Choice, and los ing to Streep, is Jessica Lange (Frances), who picks up an Academy Award anyway fol her supporting role in Tootsie. Louis Gossett, Jr., wins Best Supporting Actor for his por trayal of the drill sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman. Girls swoon when someone mentions Duran Duran. Quiet! Riot, The Police, Prince, and Culture Club also top the charts, but way up on top is the new ‘Prince of Pop,’’ Michael Jackson, with a crowning al bum that breaks best-selling re cords, THRILLER. THE GEFFEN COMPANY Presents ‘A STEVE TISCH-JON AVNET Production “RISKY BUSINESS” TOM CRUISE REBECCA DE MORNAY Produced by JON AVNET and STEVE TISCH R= Written and Directed by PAUL BRICKMAN ee eo onsen mms

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1984 misses George Orwell's expectations George Orwell's interpreta- tion of 1984 it was not. However, from a Quiet Riot Van Halen craze to new wave music, Pan Pizzas and a terrific basketball season, 1983-84 left an indeliable and unique im- pression on the minds of most GHS students. Besides new computers and new teachers, new attitudes came to GHS in the 1983-84 school year, some of which were expressed in a questionnaire survey conduct- ed in January by the Aeolian staff. Superstar Michael Jackson made a dramatic mark with his album THRILLER. THRILLER undoubtedly caused Jackson to be the year’s most popular sing- er at GHS. Jackson and numer- ous other bands and singers re- ceived extra ‘‘visibility’’ due to the popularity of MTV in early 1984, and many expressed a de- sire to ‘‘get it’’ (in stereo). In 1984 between one-third and one-half of GHS girls sport- ed ear lobes that were at least double pierced. Between one- thirteenth and one-fifteenth of GHS boys tried a pierced ear also after many well known fig- 1984 FAVORITES AT GHS JOAN RIVERS WMEE (97 FM) THOSE TWO GUYS (CHARLIE BUTCHER SCOTT TSULEF) News media personality Least favorite politician ‘‘Hang-out’’ restaurant MIDDLE RIGHT—Favorite actor— Clint Eastwood RIGHT—Least favorite politi- cian—Jimmy Carter FAR RIGHT—Favorite actress— Olivia Newton-John 24 1984 Survey GREG JOHANS BASKETBALL ures set the trend. The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a popular teen cult mov: ie, had been seen by one-third to one-fourth of the student body, and some fans had seen it 26, 30, and even 40 times! Also popular on the big screen were Clint Eastwood, Olivia Newton- John, and the movie Porky’s. Sports were definitely popu- lar in 1984. Dr. J (Julius Irving of the Philadelphia Seventy- sixers) was the favorite sports figure, and, even before Gar- rett’s spectacular 21-5 season, basketball was the most popu- lar sport. Even the most favol ite news communications pel sonality had roots in athletics— 21 Alive sportscaster Greg J hans. What do parents, death, n clear war, going to hell, and th thought of losing a loved on have in common? All were co mon answers to the question ‘“‘What scares you most?” On more positive note, 96% of GH§ students believed in heave and or hell, and 98% believed it God.