John Wesley North High School - Aurora Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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Catching the rays, or just caught with a case of Senioritis? lama Dixon basks in the sun during lunch on a Roman dressup day. Complete with leis and loud shirts, the class ol 85 made their Hawaiian theme homecoming float one to remember. To complete their tropical master- piece, those on the float spient many hours working on it the day before and the day of the parade. 48 division With best bear in hand, Kristi Lund gets into the spirit of Homecoming week during a [Mrty in Mr. Adams ' class. The celebration, in his calculus class made up of seniors, was held to commemorate the four years the group had been together under Ad- ams ' wing. V HI

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Chemical Spill Kills Many was not long after dawn and the daily eath toll was already in the hundreds, he was street littered with bodies. That ras the sight in Bhopal, India on the lorning of December 18, 1984. Over ,500 people were killed by the spillage of 3xic gas. At 1 1 pm a worker at the Union -arbide plant in Bhopal noticed a pres- jre build up in a 45 ton tan k containing lethyl isocyanate, a highly poisonous hemical used in pesticides. At 12:56 am a ense cloud of toxic gas escaped through a faulty valve. The cloud was moved slow- ly by air currents leaving many dead in it ' s wake and many others injured. The next morning hundreds were dead and, by the end, of the week 2,500. Many others were blinded, while others experienced severe lung destruction. Officials at the Bhopal plant were arrested and tried for negli- gence. The Bhopal incident was consid- ered one of the worst industrial disasters of all time. Shuttle Takes Flight lying high over the earth, the space shut- completed its 50th flight in 1984. Flight 1-A, though, was perhaps the most spec- cular in the 26 year history of the United fates Space Program. The space shuttle iscovery was sent into space in order to jcover two malfunctioning satellites in rbit around the earth. Using special ackpacks for zero-gravity movement, the fo astronauts, Gardner and Allen, oved the two satellites into the large car- D bay of the space shuttle. Upon their !turn they planned on selling the two itellites for $35 million each. President onald Reagan said We ' ve demonstrat- i that we can work in space in ways that e never imagined possible. The government had other plans for the shuttle too. They planned on using the space shuttles to build a permanent space station in orbit. This space station was to be used for research and the eventual installation of the Star Wars defense sys- tem. Star Wars was a plan of laser de- fense from a nuclear attack. According to the president, the star wars system would make nuclear war obsolete. Congress had authorized almost $2.5 billion for re- search and development on an estimated $26 billion 5 year budget. Scientists were skeptical but Reagan was hopeful that starwars and the shuttles could reduce, if not stop, the effects of a nuclear ex- change. From one of the many balconies in the Mission inn one can see ihe Spanish Patio. Originally con- struction on the Inn began in 1876 and it was com- pleted in 1935. Riverside Renovates Riverside a new metropolis? The orange capital of the 60 ' s? Most people said it was not possible, but Riverside had great plans for renovation. During 1985 and 1986 the Mission Inn, which was sold by the City of Riverside for $3,000,000, was closed in order to begin a giant restora- tion project. $25 million dollars of restora- tion was planned for. The Sheraton corpo- ration has chosen Riverside as the site for a new fourteen story Sheraton hotel. The hotel was scheduled to be built and open for business by the summer of 1986. Other changes in Riverside included its rapid growth due to the continued building of apartments and condominiums. Construc- tion on fowa at Blaine, on Linden at Can- yon Crest and Central at Chicago took place in 1984 and 1985. Riverside had definitely changed from the small orange capital it was in the 60 ' s. Landslide For Reagan The election had pretty well been decid- ed, the incumbant President Ronald Rea- gan would win. The question, however, was would it be an historic landslide? The answer proved to be yes. On November 6, 1984, Ronald Reagan was overwhelm- ingly reelected to the position of president of the United States. His victory over democrat Walter Mondale was a land- slide, 525 electoral votes to 13. Mondale, however, managed to secure electoral votes from his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia. Reagan on the other hand took 59% of the popular vote. Following his reelection Reagan, the republican, had one of the most spectacu- lar inaugurations in history. More than $12 million was alotted to buy various com- memorative souvenirs. This inaugural budget had only been surpassed by Rea- gan ' s first of $16.3 million. the news page 47

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enior Year Distractions Help % Oollege, grades, jobs, uncomfortable chairs, or worse yet, sit- it certainly was an awesome task to ting with a fake tree for senior portraits ull through senior year while worrying bout such important matters. But seniors the last registration in the gym ad many distractions to help them through leir final year. ' football game (we won) ecall: ' wqiwh the spirited Here Today, Gone To Maui homecoming float the final pep assembly the joy of going out to lunch the Senior Trip the Senior Breakfast taking fewer classes and working more hours So, despite the many concerns of the graduating class, the last year in high school didn ' t prove to be all that bad. w going to Sheffler Studios and posing in being fitted for a cap and gown The Collection m Aurora 1985 ugdheee Bhughnnee . . . is about all John nDenburgh can manage during the lunchtime udgie Bunny contest. With a mouth stuffed with 1 rshmallows, saying the words Pudgie Bunny I difficult, but in the end the seniors had the last rd and won the contest. seniors 49