Gateway High School - Olympiad Yearbook (Aurora, CO)

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iw llll ,A ,ll'l'l.'i. Cloclswise from lefr- The firsr woman ro serve on rhe Supreme Courr was Sandra Day O'Conner. l-lere she is picrured vvirh Chief Jusrice Warren Burger and Presidenr Reagan. PacMan, a game rhar leepr many people vvairing inline for a rurn ro malse rhe lirrle yellow ball ear dors. Space Invaders by Arari, is seen on almosr everyone's Video game console. The baseball srril-ze lsepr many baseball fans from see- ing rheir favorire reams unril much larer in rhe season. The Columbia space shuffle ralses a pracrice run on rop of a converred Boeing 747 Super Bovvl XVl The Cincinnari Bengals and San Fran- cisco 40's barrle ir our in Ponriac, Michigan. Pope John Paul ll greers a large crowd

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AA 1981-1982 1981-1982 As fime passed and we warcned rbe world pro- gress, few of us realized rnar we were acrually living rnrougb lwisrory. Jusr as flue 1980481 scnool year was coming ro a close and we were all suffering from spring fever, a narive of Colorado, Jobn l-linclsley Jr., made news world-wide wirb an assassinarion arrempr on Presidenr Ronald Reagan, wno bad only been in office for fnree monfns. Violence and rerrorism conrinf ued ro rise as Pope Jobn Paul ll was snor during a parade in Sf. Pefer's Sauare in lfaly. The 1981 scbool year ended wirn a violenr acr of narure, rornadoes swirled rnrougnour rne Denver Mer' ro area causing mucn properfy damage. As summer srarred, rne professional baseball players wenr on srrilse, for wnar fans considered ro be foo long-posrponing nigbrly enrerfainmenf for many and cosring owners and riclsef nolders millions of dollars. l-lowever, fne srril-se ended lusr in rime for me 1981 World Series ro be neld pirring rne New Yorls Yanleees againsr rlwe Los Angeles Dodgers, wnicn Los Angeles won. lnrernarional rravel was rurned upside down as Pro- fessional Air Trahfic Conrrollers Organizarion, berrer l-xnown as PATCO, announced fnar American air fraffic conrrollers were officially on srrilse, Presidenr Reagan warned all conrrollers rlwar if me srrilse confinued, rney would lose rneir jobs. Wirb fligbrs being cancelled and postponed, milirary and non-union air rraffic conrrollers were called in ro ease up fligbf siruarions. Tne Royal Wedding, neld on .luly 27, 1981, gained world-wide arrenrion as Lady Diana Spencer and Cnarles Prince of Wales fied me lsnor. Cosring millions of dollars, people wolse up during me wee bours of me morning in order ro wirness me mosr specfacular, dy- namic wedding me world nas ever seen. People of all ages dreamed and fanrasized of baving a wedding lilse Lady Diana's one day. lf was indeed a fairy fale mar came rrue.

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46 19811982 1981-1982 Since rhe beginning of irs hisrory rhe Unired Srores Supreme Courr welcomed ro irs socred chombers o wom- on. Women rhroughour the norion held ir os o mojor breols rhrough for jusrice ond eguoliry. During rhe monrh of Ocrober, Norionol Aeronourics Spoce Adminisrrorion, orherwise lsnown os NASA, senr off rhe Colombio spoce shurrle for rhe second rime. The shurrle Iefr Cope Conoverol in Florido ond rerurned offer o successful flighr ro Edwords Air Force Bose in Colifornio. As rhe new yeor rolled oround, 1982 srorred wirh video gomes blirzing rhe world wirh populoriry. If you wollsed inro ony orcode, you would hove found ir mobbed wirh people of oll oges. Lines for rhe fomous lsnown video gomes os Pocmon ond Asreroids were olwoys long, suddenly rhings gor rorolly our of hond. Children were missing school ond srores ocross rhe counrry were possing lows sroring rhor you musr be eighreen yeors or older or hove o Iegol guordion in order ro ger inro rhe orcode ond drop rhose rolsens inro rhe video mochines. A rrogic occidenr occurred in mid Jonuory, on oirplone, Air Florido 787, leoving Woshingron, BC. croshed inro rhe 14rh Srreer bridge during o snowy blizzord rush hour. Wirh only five survivors rhe crosh wos rhe firsr mosr rrogic occidenr of rhe new yeor, os 78 possengers died rhor were oboord rhe plone ond four people died who were rroveling on rhe bridge or rhe rime of rhe crosh. This winrer wos recorded os rhe coldesr winrer, nor only in Colorodo bur olso norion-wide. As we wolee up ro freezing 15 degrees below weorher, cors wouldn'r srorr ond people lirerolly froze ro deorh in subfzero degree weorher. Pseogon's drosric budger curs orfecred mony people, especiolly rhose of us who were relying on guoronreed srudenr loons ond finonciol oid. l-lowever os gosoline rose in price ond inflorion wos hirring ogoin, Beogon's budger curs helped rhe rox poyers os mony foxes were lowered. Even rhough rhe new Bronco heod cooch, Don Reeves, did nor rolse rhe Denver Broncos ro the Super Bowl rhis yeor, we oll srill worched ond porried while molsing bers on our fovorire reom in Super Bowl XVI, Being held in Ponrioc, Michiogon, rhe Super Bowl Chompi- ons for 1982 were rhe Son Froncisco 49'ers, who defeor- ed rhe Cincinnori Bengols. Afrer rhe gome we olliusr soid, 'lWoir unril nexr yeor, I ber rhe Broncos will be rherel As 1981 flew by ond 1982 begon wirh o good srorr, we oll wished for rhe besr ond looleed inro rhe furure wirh brighr eyes ond hoped rhor yeors ro come would be os fun ond good os wos rhe posr hisrory.