Lake Howell High School - Wings Yearbook (Winter Park, FL)

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Kansas City Royals star George Brett's game win- i A u ...I TT... -..- SD rt Heisman Trophy winner, Herschel Walker, stunned the college football world in February by leaving the University of Georgia to sign a contract with the New lersey Generals of the USFL. Drug revelations continued in pro sports, and all three major professional leagues cracked down on offenders. For the first time in the 132 year history of the America's Cup, the United States lost. Martina Navratilova lost one of 87 matches. ning home run against the New York Yankees was taken away because of the amount of pine tar on his bat. Royals protested and the home run was restored. The University of Miami Hurricanes, led by the outstanding freshman quarterback Bernie Kosar, overcame a season-opening loss to Florida and won the 1984 National Championship over H1 ranked Nebraska. Nov. 22, marked the 20th anniversary of the assassination of john F. Kennedy. Martin Luther King got his own holiday. Pres. Reagan began wearing a hearing aid. Vanessa Williams, 20, was crowned the 57th winner of the Miss America Contest, the first black woman to wear the crown. An anti-trust suit splintered AT8fT. Cabbage Patch dolls and Care Bears swept the nation in Christmas buying. Paul Bear Bryant, 69, lan. 26, Karen Carpenter, 32, Feb. 4, Tennessee Williams, 71, Feb. 24, Barney Clark, 62, Mar. 23, Gloria Swanson, 84, Apr. 4, Frank Reynolds, 59, Apr. 30, George Ballanchine, 79, Apr. 30, lack Dempsey, 87, May 31, Larry Gordon, 29, lune 25, loe Delaney, 24, june 29, Vicki Morgan, 30, luly 7, David Niven, 73, luly 29, Benigno Aquino, 50, Aug. 24, Rep. Larry McDonald, 48, Sept. 1, Sen. Henry Scoop jackson, 71, Sept. 1, Kelso, 26, Oct. 16, Jessica Savitch, 35, Oct. 23, Lillian Carter, 85, Oct. 30. I S A suicide bomber drove a truck loaded with explosives into the U.S. Marines Headquarters at Beirut airport, killing himself and 241 U.S. servicemen. The attack came six months after a car packed with explosives demolished much of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, killing 46 people. Soviet jet fighters shot down a civilian jetliner that strayed over Soviet air space September first. All 269 on board, including Rep. Larry McDonald and 6 other Americans died. ln an early morning invasion October 25, U.S. paratroopers and Marines landed on the Caribbean island of Grenada, after members of a Marxist government staged a coup and murdered Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. Benigno Aquino, believed to be the strongest challenger of Phillipines President Ferdinand Marcos, was assassinated as he stepped off a plane at Manila airport, after returning from three years of self-imposed exile in the U.S. Amid world wide nuclear protests and deadlock at the negotia- tion tables in Geneva, the United States began to place 572 Pershing 2 cruise missiles in Western Europe. .5 . fs

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MAGIC AND CLOWN ENTERTAINMENT FOR ANY OCCASION IOHN LIVERA 657-1664 SPONSORED BY THE HAIRCUTTERS FRIENDLY TRAVEL OF MAITLAND 84 645-3787 628-4774 The yearbook staff could not produce a yearbook without the support of our advertisers and for the past decade Lake Howell has had many generous businesses, teachers, parents, and students, The WINGS staff would like to thank all those who were generous enough to purchase an ad in our year- book and ask that all students identify themselves as Lake Howell students when patronizlng those businesses. Thank you, because without you there could be no yearbook, y 1036 SF? 436, Goodings Plaza We Do Corner of 426 8t Red Bug Road Enlargements Horo mms 227