Green Mountain High School - Ramblings Yearbook (Lakewood, CO)

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GMHS alumnus dies in 'auto accident Parent attempts to ban required reading LMC to modernize Cheerleaders jump to silver scree What Jesse Wants Time for School Prayer? Cheerleaders capture 'Award of Excellenee Current Events 205

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X Student depressio 204 iintfests Ge HS J? 1 7 Everyone has a duty to die. These were Governor Lamm's famous words in late spring of 1984. He was expressing his opinion about life systems. El Salvadorian Elections were held in May. Napoleon Duarte was elected presi- dent. It was the most democratic election that was held in that country in 50 years. Yuri Andropov, head of the Russian communist party, took the place of Con- stantine Chernynko. In the Oscars this year, Robert Duvall received his Oscar for his role as a Current Events washed-up country singer who over- comes alcoholism in the film Tender Mercies . Shirley McLaine won the best actress Oscar and Jack Nicholson won best supporting actor in Terms of En- dearmentw. The Oscar for best support- ing actress went to Linda Hunt for her role in The Year of Lilving Dangerous- ly . The number one movie of 1984 was Ghostbusters starring Bill Murray and Dan Ackroyd. The movie started a major fad such as Hawk Busters etc. Another big movie of 1984 was Purple Rain where Prince and The Revolution made their first movie debut. Prince Charles and Lady Diane had their second child in the summer of 1984. His name is Prince Harry. Bruce McCandless takes a walk in space. It was the Spacewalk of 1984. His spacewalk was accomplished by using a manned maneuvering unit. He used it to move away from the Space Shuttle Chal- lenger during the eight-day space mission.

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