Lake Braddock Secondary School - Lair Yearbook (Burke, VA)

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Enjoying each others' company at the Soc Hop. sponsored by the seniors, are Greg Smith and Cheryl St.Amant. ptting into the beat of the music is Steve Lund and two friends at the Class of '84 Dance on At the Back-to-School Dance. Veleta Holloway and Bill Link dance to the music played by Sound Tech. nuary 6. Dances 323

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At the Hop On many Friday nights, a mass of people piled in the cafeteria for a back-to-school dance, a beach party, or a sock hop to celebrate Halloween, end of the quarter, or just to bring in the new year. No matter what the title, people came to dance and socialize. The attire was casual pants or jeans and a comfortable shirt with an occasional new wave outfit here and there. Sound Tech played everything from Led Zeppelin to the Ramones. But if the dancer’s feet were not up to “ getting down, a slow dance with that certain someone was a plea- sant change. Since so many of the dances were held right after football or basketball games, they made an en- joyable ending to memorable night. Decked out in his hightops and his camoflauge bandana is Dave McDaniel. Swaying to one of the many slow songs of the evening are Juli Robinson and James Piotrowski. I.ake Braddock students get into the music at the Back-to-School Dan 322 Student Life

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Although shuttle lift-offs were more routine in 1983, one lift- off stood out above the rest. In late June Sally Kristen Ride, the first U.S. spacewoman, headed off with her four male crew members on the space shuttle Challenger. Half a million peo- ple went to the beaches of Cape Canaveral, Florida, to watch the lift- off. On the fifth day up. Ride and Air Force Colonel John Fabian began operating the 50-foot long remote- controlled mechanical arm. They retrieved a West German satellite from free flight and tucked it safely away in the cargo bay for use on a future mission. For the astronauts as well as many others, this was viewed as the mission's highlight. Ride in- sisted prior to the mission that she be treated the same as her male crewmates. Her feelings about being the first woman in space were summed up by this quote, It’s too bad that society isn't to the point yet where the country could just send up a woman astronaut in space and nobody would think twice about it. December was supposed to be cold; however, in 1983 the temperatures hit a record low which proved to be an experience many would not forget. All over the U.S., record lows hit many states with such recorded temperatures as -52 F in Wisdom, Montana; -14 F in In- dianapolis, Indiana; and 0 F in Atlanta, Georgia. Even in Florida, famed for its warm weather during the Christmas season, the cold wave struck hard and people were forced to wear such attire as sweaters and cords. Fruit crops were destroyed throughout the state and losses of 500 million dollars were recorded. Plumbing failures occurred throughout the country as well. In Washington D.C., leaks damaged two dozen federal buildings and in Ohio, broken pipes caused 200,000 dollars in the state's Supreme Court. In addition, power outages were widespread. Within the month, five hundred people died as a result of the drastic weather. For everyone, the memories of the weather in December were likely to re- main for a long time. On December 3. 1983. over 100 million television viewers across America tuned in to watch The Day After, a movie about the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust. Democratic Presidential candidate Jesse Jackson travelled to Syria in January of 1984 and helped release Marine Lt. Robert Goodman who was be- ing held hostage by the Syrian government. The Washington Redskins went down to Tampa. Florida to take on the Los Angeles Raiders in Superbowl XVIII. However, the Redskins were defeated 38 9. Interior Secretary James Watt resigned his post after saying the remark, We have every kind of mixture you can have. I have a black. I have a woman, two Jews and a cripple. Singer Michael Jackson made history in 1983 when his LP Thriller sold more than 23 million copies worldwide, the most in history. On February 10. 1984, Soviet Premier Yuri An- dropov was pronounced dead after much specula- tion about his health when he was last seen in public almost six months ago. The yacht Australia II became the first challenger to take the America's Cup during the races in the early fall of 1983. For the first time in history, astronauts Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewert of the tenth flight of the space shuttle Challenger walked in space, free of any life-lines on February 7. 1984. On January 1, 1984. the telephone company AT T broke up into eight smaller companies as a result of a Supreme Court hearing declaring AT T a monopoly that must be divided. On January 1,1984, the fears an doubts about society, brough about by George Orwell's nove 1984 were put to rest (for the time be ing at least). The novel consisted of th plight of two lovers Winston and Julie who lived in the time when the world' three superpowers: Oceania, Eurasie and Eastasia constanly battlec although the pattern of alliances an hostilities kept changing. The officii language was Newspeak, a version c English pared down to erase all ur wanted feelings and thoughts. Privac vanished as people were constanly wa- ched by “Big Brother. The lover were relentlessly tortured in th dreaded room 101 for thei thoughtcrime of “Down with Bi Brother.” and in the end, they sue cumbed to the torture and lost all trac of humanity. This story made the yea unsettling for many. Several o Orwell’s predictions in the nove became reality; for instance, severa nations led under similar government in the novel. Orwell wrote 1984 as warning to all mankind what could haf pen if a “negative Utopia began t sprout and grow. The thought of sue control occurring in the free world ha terrified many, although the new yea came with no ill effects. Though 198 was a grim look at the future worlt George Orwell tried not so much as t paint a grim picture, but to fight th worst tendencies in politics and societ through his writing. 324 Student Life