Magnificat High School - Magnifier Yearbook (Rocky River, OH)

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Above the net for another spike, Rita Crockett, “the Crock¬ ett Rocket,” rotates her arm for the hit. The U.S. Olympic team, in blue uni¬ forms, lost the match to the Japanese. Excitement for the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles heightened when the Olympic flame was carried through Cleve¬ land and some suburbs on May 19. Photo by R. Cutarelli. Two helium balloons, after getting loose at the freshman picnic, entangle in the bask¬ etball supports while Krisse Blenkhorn ' 85 talks with Mary Kinzel ' 85 after the freshmen have left the gym. The new pennants of confer¬ ence schools flanked the blue MAGNIFICAT HIGH SCHOOL sign, which was put up the year before. Photo by A. Sheridan. CLOSING 167

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mu Me U o lU As seniors finalized their plans for Genesis, Student Council candidates prepared for the election. And as May 8 approached, increasing attention was given to Democratic Presidential candidates, two of whom gave a large amount of attention to the city of Cleveland. When May 8 was over, Senator Gary Hart scored an upset victory in Ohio’s primary to give his campaign a needed boost. The hotly contested Issue 1 to finance a dome over the stadium through property taxes was defeated by a 2 to 1 margin. And the Soviet Union announced it would not participate in the XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles. That was three months after the death of Andropov and Chernenko’s assumption of power in the U.S.S.R. And within two weeks of the Soviet pullout — they refused to call it a boycott — nine Eastern bloc nations followed their lead. But the Olympic flame still came through Rocky River, and Magnificat still smelled like onions. The seniors still pulled their pranks, even if they were a little milder than they had been in previous years. So Magnificat survived it all—the breakup of AT T, stampedes to get Cabbage Patch Kids, anxious waits until another shipment of Trivial Pursuit games came into the depart¬ ment store, and all George Orwell’s predictions. The siding on the front of the school was still blue—faded from a year’s wear, but unques¬ tionably still blue. 166 CLOSING

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All of a sudden the day came for Schoolbelles to measure students for uniforms. Added to the selection for the next year’s apparel was a navy blue wool skirt as well as the tradi¬ tional polyester. Sophomores made $20 down payments on class rings they would receive seven months lat¬ er. In the seniors’ absence, the juniors took over Senior Courtyard. Student Council held elections for the following year’s officers. There was even a meeting for students and teachers to collaborate on a theme for the 1984-1985 school year, since the year of “Reverence and Respect” was winding down. From the time of course registra¬ tion in March, everyone began to look forward. The seniors felt a bit left out as the people around them felt the promise of a new commence¬ ment at Mags. But it was in the tra¬ ditional commencement that the sen¬ iors began a subtle realization. At graduation the Class of 84 looked back. The 234 girls in white caps and gowns looked back over four years, but particularly the year in which they had led the school as the seniors. But soon everyone else looked back too. Finals required the undesired search through illegible notes taken in September. The track and field team’s journey to the State meet brought a flashback of the cross country team’s success in Co¬ lumbus. The Awards Assembly highlighted the outstanding accom¬ plishments of Mags girls over the previous nine months. By June 8, Magnificat had stood still, turned around, and taken a look back at the year in which it had never been this blue. NEVER SAY NEVER, taken from the then recently released Never Say Never Again, is emblazoned on posters on the senior hall windows for the senior rally. All day seniors signed their names on the posters. Photo by A. Sheridan.