King High School - Clarion Yearbook (Tampa, FL)

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JUNIORS Candace Leverett, this year’s junior class pres- ident. hoped to improve the attitudes of the stu- dent body towards the school and towards each other. She also hoped to promote student involve- ment in school activities, not only for the junior class, but for the entire student body as well. She enjoys working with other people and felt that the office of president would provide good experi- ence for her future plans to become a psycholo- gist. Carla Copeland was this year’s junior class vice president. She is interested in human relations and this is one reason that she ran for office. She wanted to have a voice in student government and felt she had many ideas to contribute. She looked forward to making her class’s graduation and Grad Night successful. The junior class treasurer this year was Yvette Sullivan. She ran for treasurer because she wanted to raise as much money as she could for her class’s senior year. She had ideas to contrib- ute for fundraising projects such as selling candy. She enjoyed representing the junior class this year and plans to run for an office next year. The secretary of the junior class this year was Charlene Collins. She enjoys participating in school activities and thought that running for of- fice would be a good experience. She worked well with the other officers, trying to promote school spirit and scheduling more school functions. 242 Underclass

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 7 by Mantu Sunloo On Wednesday. July 29. 1981 at 11:00 a.m.. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was joined in holy matrimony with Lady Diana Spencer. One out of every six people in the world viewed the telecasted wedding. Two thousand five hundred people attended the affair which was held at Saint Paul's Cathedral. London. England. The ceremony lasted approximately seventy minutes and was offici- ated by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Dean of Saint Paul's. Prince Charles worked with Barry Rose and his two hundred and sixty- four member choir to compose several of the anthems and hymns sung at the wedding. Diana's ring was forged from a Welsh gold used only for the royal court’s wedding bands. However, the event was not a double ring cere- mony. due to strict Anglican practice and royal tradition. From the wedding sprung the Charles and Diana industry. Two British comcmcrativc wedding stamps were issued in honor of the occasion. A silver crown with the silohuettes of Diana and Charles embellished upon it was cast. Plates, mugs, vases, and silver sets depicted the royal event. Souvenirs ranging from beer mats and coin watches to 45's titled Di- ana” and tin badges marked Don't do it. Di were seen in shops all over England. The ceremony was nicknamed The Wedding of the Century. Like- wise the details of lady Diana's gown were labblcd the secret of the century by David and Elizabeth Emanuel, the designers. The Prince and Princes of Wales. Diana will never be called Princess Diana because she was not born into the position, arc expecting their first child in June of 1982. ulnlcs CUBE by Trey McDuffie With a staggering 43,252.003.274,489.856.000 possible combinations and only one solution. Rubik's cube has captured the minds of millions of people here and abroad. The six-sided challenge which consists of twen- ty-six smaller cubes became a national fixation over night. The object: scramble the six colored sides of red. yellow, blue, white, orange, and green and return the cube to it’s original form, with each side a single color. Simple as it sounds, Rubik's device possesses a will of its own. Through twists and turns it mutilates its faces until they become multi- colored impossibilities. The cube was invented by Hungarian architectural engineer Emo Rubik. In the summer of 1974, Rubik began toying with the idea of a three dimensional object that could rotate about three axes. Turning the thcoictical design floating in his head into a reality posed a problem: how docs one devise a mechanism capable of converting complicated move- ments into simple twists and turns that will change the arrangement of squares on the faces of an actual cube? When Rubik finally developed a working model, it took him several weeks to solve his own puzzle. He obtained a patent in 1975 and by 1979 at least one version had been introduced to the United Stales. By 1981 cubes were the rage and cubists began popping up all over the country. on nsw F3onuiE3 by Shuoo Edwardi On the morning of April 12. 1980. the dawn of a new space age broke when the space shuttle Columbia blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. Florida. Nobody could believe that it had finally lifted off. The shuttle was scheduled to make its first flight over a year ago, in March of 1979. However, the flight had to be postponed because of problems with the main rocket engines and with the heat insulation tiles, which protect the craft from the extreme heat of friction caused by re-entering the earth’s atmosphere. These problems were finally resolved, and the first flight of the shuttle was highly successful, with only a few minor complications. The main purpose of the first shuttle flight was to test the craft to make sure all systems were in perfect working order. The Columbia was piloted by John Young and Robert Crippen. who spent 55 hours testing all systems of the craft. After circling the world 36 times, the craft re-entered earth's atmosphere and landed at Edwards Air Force Base on the Mojave Desert in California. The Columbia is a reusable space craft that can be used to carry into orbit such things as communications satellites, military surveillance hardware, scientific laboratories, earth-scanning cameras, and a giant telescope. It is possible that the space shuttle will be making twelve flights a year by 1984. and as many as 40 flights a year by 1990. Already three new crafts. Atlantis. Challenger, and Discovery arc being con- structed. Many plans have already been made for the Columbia throughout the 80's. It is scheduled to take up a tracking and date-relay satellite in 1982. Eventually, the shuttle will replace all other American satellite launching vehicles. It will even be able to bring a satellite that has failed to work back down to earth for servicing. In 1983. there are plans for the shuttle to carry a flying laboratory into orbit. Many industries want to conduct experiments in space to discover what effect zero gravity will have on the results. In 1985. powerful, remote-controlled telescope is to be built in space. With this telescope, astronomers expect to see 350 times farther into space than is possible with a telescope on the earth's surface, because their view will not be obstructed by the earth's atmosphere. The shuttle program intends to put some 200 Americans into orbit by the end of 1987. The astronaut corps will include women and minorities for the first time. Some officials even speculate that by 1990, people will travel on the shuttle routinely — as on an airplane. The shuttle was built at the Rockwell Corporation Facility in Palmdale. California. After the shuttle was completed, it was transported to Cape Canaveral on top of a Boeing 747. The total cost of the Columbia was nine billion dollars, and each flight it makes costs another 25 million dollars. The orbitcr. external fuel tank, and solid-rocket boosters stand 184 feet tall — a little longer than a jet airliner. It weighs about 4.5 million pounds and has a 60 foot payload bay that can stow up to 65,000 pounds of cargo. The shuttle bums more than four tons of fuel a second — enough to fill 18 backyard swimming pools in just eight minutes. The Columbia’s first historic flight marks the beginning of a new space age for man. The dream of traveling to distant planets and perhaps even colonizing them is no longer a dream. It is only a matter of time until technology will enable man to travel to other planets. At the turn of the century, nobody would have have believed it was possible to travel to the stars. The thought of using the airplane as a common means of trans- portation was unheard of. None could conceive of a craft that could orbit the earth and travel to the moon. These advances took place in less that 70 years; it is difficult now for us to imagine what advances may occur during the next century. The gateway to the final frontier has finally been opened. Magazine 241

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Juniors Return For Their Second Big Year Chandra Abrams Elizabeth Acevedo Marla Alexandra Maria Alfaro Michael Alfonso Karen Allegar Ernie Alonso John Ames Dan Andrcyka Juanda Antrum Harry Araya Gene Austin Connie Ayers Ben Bachman Thomas Badcrtschcr Rick Bahr Richard Baily Dannah Baity Carol Baker Michael Baker Myra Baldwin Reggie Baldwin Brenda Barber Leticia Barbosa Jane Barnhart John Barnhart Karl Barowski Kilrenna Barrow Greg Barsoumian Lori Bayne Jim Bean John Bean Ricardo Benitez Paula Bennett Michael Bcrcaw Chcryln Bernard Melody Bing Althea Black Deanna Black Tim Black Dean Blackwelder Eddie Blume Kevayn Boatwright David Bode Dale Boisvert Michael Bollea Ron Booth Pam Bondi Anthony Borrego Underclass 243