Grain Valley High School - Treasure Chest Yearbook (Grain Valley, MO)

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more comfortable life. Many have left the services and taken jobs in other areas. President Reagan's life was put in danger once more as Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi reportedly sent out hit squads to kill Reagan. Gaddafi denied all reports of assassination attempts saying there was no proof. Proof was never produced for public viewing but CIA officials reported they had solid information from trusted informants. lt was also rumored that Gaddafi had given instructions to kill the top officials if the hit squads could not get to the President. Thus security was tightened around the Vice-President, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State in addition to the president. hether due to the security or false reports, no at- t pts were ever made on any of their lives. lso in Washington tragedy struck in lanuary when a jet lane crashed into the Potomac River. Survivors were fe with only five living and seventy-eight killed. Thr gh a blinding snow storm the Bowing 737, bound for ' rida, lifted off. While waiting for clearance on a run r ice formed on the wings. The pilot was unable to ai . titude and plunged into the river after grazing th Fourt nth Street Bridge. Tops were sheared off cars be ore th y were dumped into the river. Four people I lilly ., N BS- 4-ii-ull Lvepnnf .. f-fx' X I igqg- I -,,,- H W X N ffl 1 annul H1 O l x ff f g af x P from the bridge were killed. The tapes made in the cockpit right before the crash revealed very little except that the pilots felt there might be ice on the wings. On the local scene, Kansas City was devastated by the loss of one-hundred-fourteen lives. On luly 17, during a weekly tea dance, the suspended skywalks of the Hyatt standing on were either walks were Regency crashed to the dance floor. People the walks positioned over the dance floor severly injured or killed. Those under the crushed. The mental shock of those present at the tragic event was treated in special group therapies formed just for this purpose. People not related to the incident were also treated .for mental problems connected with viewing the graphic pictures shown on t.v. and reading the ac- counts of the event. Many lawsuits were brought against the Hyatt Regency for negligence. . Grain Valley students were obstructed from cruising 7 highway when it was shut down in the fall to be widened. Two more lanes were added in order to make it a four lane highway. This didn't hamper the cruising much as faithful cruisers found detours to make it around the construction. Finally, on December 11, the new highway was unveiled and G.V. students cruised on through. CI QQQ HQC QQQ fleas lljilgl

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l l l l i i l l i i i i Marching pride. lr. high students Andrea Hazlett and Rob- in Brown were the banner carriers for the marching band Irjthe fall ltop lefty Freshmen cheerleader Tonia Bennett utilizes her art skills by painting a banner proclaiming Big Blue Machine, which was used prior to the homecoming game lbottom leftl. Dressing up as the llBlues Brothers, Missy Koonce and Carla Peal show their spirit during one Of the homecoming spirit days ltop rightj. Taking lessons i l l l r l i ilu i 1 ,.1 --.V l is-f-m in conversion of the metric sys- tem, junior high students take time out from Mrs. Creen's math class lbottom lefty. Tradition of homecoming week is for pep club members to decorate play- erfs lockers, as done here with football player Tony Reek's lock- er. Ellllt V L. ,,.,, ,,,,.,--.. ,,.. rig., WNY - SPlRlT!11