Mater Dei High School - Hi Lights Yearbook (Evansville, IN)

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MIXING BUSINESS WITH PLEASURE: President Reagan makes a call to Capitol Hill from his moun- tain Top ranch in Santa Barbara. California. The president and Mrs. Reagan spent the Memorial Day weekend there. (Photo courtesy of the Associ- ated Press) ON GUARD: Two Argentine Troopers look down the street as they stand guard near the govern- ment house in Port Stanley in the Falklands. After 169 years under British rule, the south Atlantic is- lands were invaded by Argentina in a takeover attempt. (AP photo) CUTIE PIE: Ten-year-old Aileen Quinn captured America ' s heart as the star of the movie Annie. The movie is based on Harold Gray ' s comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, which first appeared Au- gust 5, 1924. Since that time, it has become a smash hit on Broadway in 1977, and more recently, a popular motion picture musical. (Photo courtesy of the Associated Press)

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Tim Strange Dennis Straub Christine Thompson Theresa Thornton Carole Tieken Patrick Titzer Dennis Wannemuehler Kathleen Wannemuehler Barbara Wargel Susan Weber Michelle Weidner Greg Weinzapfel Amy Werner Susan White Angela Will 181 ' Lively teens Abortion is a very important issue to the Teens for Life. The group included Mater Dei freshmen who met once a month on Sundays. Pictured here are members Brian Singer, Dan Koressel, Greg Wein- zapfel, Eric Moss, Steve Hassler, Jane Schapker, Jill Braun, and Lisa Adler. Group members met to discuss abortion and talk to young girls who were considering having an abortion. They also had dances and bake sales to raise money for a film projector to show films against abortion. (Photo by Rob Zigenfus)

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POPE CALLS FOR PEACE : Pope John Paul II tours St. Peter ' s Square. In his speech, the pontiff called for prayers for peace between Argentina and Eng- land. He later made a visit to England, being the first pope in several years to visit the Anglican country. (AP photo) ENROUTE TO PAD 39A: The Spaceship Columbia, sitting on a gigantic crawler, makes its way to- ward the ocean where Launch Pad 39A is located nearby. It is the first reusable spacecraft, designed to make space travel more accessable to man. The project cost taxpayers approximately $9.8 bil- lion. Columbia was scheduled to be launched on June 27. (AP Photo) Beyond our borders As the world turns . . . — May 27, 1982. As we sat at our desks in our small school, we some- times seemed oblivious to the world that revolved around us. Often the atti- tude was one of indifference. Some- times, though, a violent occurrence could evoke such powerful emotions as hatred, despair, or horror. Occa- sionally, by an act of heroism or good- will, we could actually see the beauty of our world. Such was the case in the January Air Florida flight crash. Soon after takeoff, the plane ditched in the icy Potomac River near Washington, DO. Authorities rushed to the scene and attempted to rescue the survivors with helicopters. An unknown person, now referred to as the sixth man, gave his place on life buoys to other passengers five times before sinking to his death. The prover- bial Phoenix of heroism rose above the flames of disaster. Adhering to the terms of the Camp David Peace Accord, Israel gave the occupied lands of the Sinai back to Egypt after winning them in the Arab- Israeli War. In an enormous act of faith and good will, Israel ' s Prime Minister Menachem Begin braved attempts by Israeli settlers and his own cabinet to block the return of these lands. This followed the cold-blooded assasination of Egypt ' s president, Anwar Sadat. The attempted coup by Muslim extremists threatened the peace of the entire Middle East region. We could only hope Sadat ' s succes- sor, Mubarak, would continue the late president ' s policies. Our future energy situation could possibly have hung in the balance. The entire Middle East was a thorn in President Reagan ' s side. Libya con- tinued its slander and opposition of the United States. Conflict eventually re- sulted in armed hostilities between the two countries. Our plane downed two Libyan jets close to Libya ' s border in- furiating Dictator Mumar Kadafy. This was coupled with the Iraq-Irani War. An invasion of oil-rich Iranian soil re- sulted in a full-scale war between the sides. Iran fought back and at the time of this deadline, a winner had not yet emerged. Yet the Middle East was not the only hot spot in our world. Our eyes turned closer to our own borders in El Salvador where a brutal civil war raged. Rebels, allegedly supported by Cuba through Nicaragua, attempted to wrest control from the United States-backed de- mocracy. The United States saw fit to send advisers to the Central American country. United States troops had, at this time, been called to protect the El Salvador government, but we had to wait as armed hostilities seemed cer- tain to continue. However, soon to take El Salvador ' s place in the headlines was the inva- sion of the British-controlled Falkland Islands by Argentine marines. Follow- ing the invasion, negotiations were be- gun but broke off after Britain ' s return to a beach head on one of the Falklands by several thousand troops. Fighting was fierce and both sides lost men and equipment before and during Britain ' s invasion. The issue was unsettled at this deadline. At the same time as the Falkland crisis, Pope John Paul II was on a good- will tour to Portugal. Exactly one year after the assasination attempt of the Pontiff by a gunman, someone attempted to bayonet him. The Pope was uninjured and apparently un- shaken. A national grass-roots movement to ban or reduce nuclear weapons was begun this year. The movement caught and spread. Politicians were quick to realize its importance, and for the first time since Ronald Reagan ' s inauguration, arms talks were opened with The Soviet Union. An objective of the President was to reduce our arma- ments instead of just limiting them as SALT did. For the second time, NASA launched the space shuttle Columbia. This first reusable spacecraft survived beautifully and gave the American people a sense of pride to know they were citizens of such a capable country. Events around the world may have shocked or horrified us, but it was those around home that seemed to affect our lives the most. Interest rates soared and caused a significant downturn in A Q O the economy. Jobs become extremely | O O hard to find as the unemployment rate hit a high of 9.4 per cent. High school students discovered themselves out of work with no income. Together with the cutbacks of government funds for loans and scholarships, joblessness made it difficult for college-bound seniors to consider an institute of higher learning. As money became tighter, seniors found they were not receiving the financial assistance available to former students. However, as an effect of the eco- nomic downturn, inflation was re- duced to an annual rate of 6.6 per cent. This was perhaps the only bright spot in a rather dismal landscape. When we looked at what happened elsewhere in the world, we could perhaps put things in their proper per- spective here at home. There was no way we could separate ourselves from the rest of the world, and while we may have had our own little world at Mater Dei, its outcome depended on the big world we all live in. — Mike Locklar