Mazama High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Klamath Falls, OR)

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State News Capital: Biggest City: State Flower: State Animal: State Bird: State Tree: State Nickname: Salem Portland Oregon Grape Beaver Western Meadow Lark Douglas Fir Beaver State Rajneeshies Leave To the utter dismay of most Or- egonians. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his 5.000 followers have practi- cally vanished from Oregon. Only a few remain to liquidate the vast es- tate and $35 million in debts. It all began in the fall of '85 when Ma Anand Sheela fled Rajneesh- puram after the Bhagwan accused her of attempted murder and imbezzle- ment. In October. Rajneesh and several aides left the commune in two Icar jets after he was indicted in Oregon for violating immigration laws. He was arrested in Charlotte. North Carolina, and sent back to Oregon. He then pleaded guilty to two of 35 counts in the indictment. Paid $400.000 in fines and was ' allowed'' to return to his native India. Since then the Bhagwan has been globe- hopping in search of a country that will appreciate his utopia. 85 of the Bhagwan's 94 Rolls Royces have been purchased by Tex- as car dealer, Robert Roethlisbcrger. Mt. Hood Tragedy A springtime survival hike to the top of Mt. Hood turned into Or- egon's worst mountaineering disaster when a sudden storm engulfed a par- ty of student climbers in a freezing white out - a foggy, blizzard in which it is impossible to tell up from down. Nine people froze to death in the tragedy, and two people were left hospitalized with severe hypothermia after spending four days trapped in a soggy snow cave. The purpose of the hike was to give sophomore students at the Oregon Episcopal School an appreciation of nature and to teach them survival techniques. The hikers set out Monday. May 12, 1986 on a day-hike to the top of Mt. Hood. The party was hit by a freak snow storm with 60 mile an hour winds and blowing snow and fog. The wind chill factor was esti- mated to be 55 degrees below zero. They tried to retreat back down the mountain, but finally dug into a cave. The next morning the mountain guide and one student left for help. Early Wednesday the rescue effort began. Three students were found that morning, nearly lifeless, and were flown to Emanuel Hospital, but doctors were unable to save them. The others were found Thursday when searchers uncovered the cave. Brinton Clark, and her fellow class- mate. Giles Thompson, were still alive; the others who had frozen to death, were pronounced dead. Doctors succeeded in restoring the body temperatures of both Clark and Thompson, unfortunately, both of Thompson's legs had to be ampu - tated below the knee. It is not known whether the students will have any recollection of what happened to them and their hiking companions. It was the Vkh year students from the school had scaled the mountain. Mt. Hood is the second most popu- lar climbing mountain in the world, next to Mt. Fujiami. Some 10,000 people climb the mountain every year - fifty people have died in the last 80 years. The school still plans to con- tinue the Basecamp program, and a memorial fund has been set up to buy radios and emergency beepers to prevent another tragedy from occur- ing. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh 166-State News

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The Lady Producer David L. Wolper, who staged the extravagant opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics, planned the star studded celebration of the Statue of Liberty's 100th birthday (July 4, 1986). At the ceremony the newly renovated Lady Liberty was unveiled. A 30-barge fireworks display and the simulta- neous swearing in of 25,000 new U.S. citizens were two of the highlights of the ceremony. Hands Across America On Sunday, May 25. 1986, the Hands Across America project (a monumentally ambitious plan to form a human chain from New York to California) took place. The pro- ject hoped to raise $50 million for the nation's homeless and hungry. It would have taken 55 million people to make a complete line along the looping, 4.152-mile route. Whether their contributions of at least $10 apiece and massive corporate assis- tance got the drive to its $50 million goal was not known. Ken Kragen. organizer of Hands Across America and its predecessor. We Are the World, said, It'll probably be three months or four before its all in. Information on local homeless and hunger organizations was passed out to people so that they could get involved. Organizers indicated that 60 percent of the profits would be donated to establish groups and 40 percent would be used to examine the causes of poverty. The line began in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty at New York's Battery Park. It meandered through 16 states and the District of Colum- bia, where it ran across the north portico of the White House and end- ed at the Queen Mary’s dock in Long Beach, California. In between was a cross section of American civilization reflecting the democratic as well as the bizarre. In Battery Park, a priest held the hand of a youth sporting a punk haircut. At the California-Arizona border. Senator Alan Cranston held hands with actress Bo Derek. In Maryland, more than 550 boaters lashed their crafts together and 100 scuba divers held hands underwater to keep the chain intact across the Susquihanna River. Even marriages took place as cou- ples got married in the line in Balti • more. New York. Phoenix, Ham- mond. Indiana, and in Memphis. The caplet replaced the Tylenol capsule. Tylenol Capsule Poisonings After the death of a 23-year-old woman who had taken cyanide-laced Tylenol. Johnson Johnson pulled Tylenol capsules off the market, stopped production of its other cap- sule products, and announced that from now on it would sell its non- prescription products only in pill form. The decision cost Johnson Johnson as much as $150 million to recall its capsules and scrap their pro- duction. To make up for its loss, the com- pany began promoting Tylenol in the form of caplets, which are the smooth, elongated tablets that John- son Johnson began producing in 1983, after seven people in the Chica- go area were poisoned by tainted Ty- lenol capsules. After that incident J J spent $50 million to recall 31 mil- lion bottles of Tylenol capsules. When it reintroduced the product two months later, it was in a more costly, triple-sealed package J J's sudden decision prompted the pharmaceutical industry to re-ex- amine its wide spread use of over- the-counter capsules, which now in- clude dozens of preparations ranging from Contac Decongestant to Dexa- trim diet formula. As J J's night- mare began to subside, another com- pany's may have begun. Consumers in several states reported finding bits of broken glass in Gerber baby food and fruit juice. National News-165

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School News Mike Barnett, Jason Tuffs, and Bruce Beeson. Runners Go To China On December 27, 1985 three Ma- zama athletes left for an exciting 10 day trek to Hong Kong. China. Mike Barnett, Jason Tuffs, and Bruce Bee- son were three of the 244 athletes selected from Oregon, Washington, and some Midwestern States to par- ticipate in the International Sports Exchange. The purpose of the pro- gram is for American youths to ex- perience the culture of another coun- try; The trip to and from Hong Kong was an experience in itself, with flights to Los Angeles. Anchorage. Alaska, and Seoul, Korea. By cross- ing the international date line they lost a day on the trip to Hong Kong, and gained a day on the trip back home. The official event of the trip was a three mile race on Thursday, January 2nd with more than MX) runners competing. Among other exciting events were shopping at the commu • nist friendship store, one of the few places they could shop in China; Shopping at Stanley Bay (an open market), a wild taxi ride back to the hotel, and eating squid and octopus tentacles of which Mike Barnett said, It was a little rubbery, but it was pretty good. Seeing hundreds of people living on junks (Chinese boats), seeing the Seoul Olympic Complex site of the 1988 Olympics, and taking two hours to go through customs in alphabetical order were among other interesting events. Though they all suffered from jet lag (especially Jason Tuffs, who got stuck in L.A. an extra day), it was a Once in a lifetime experience. As Jason Tuffs said, We were the first Mazama athletes to be invited to any thing like this and we feel privileged because of it. They also encourage any Mazama student who ever has a chance to do something like this, to do the most he or she can to make it happen. Hall Monitors A new addition at the beginning of the school year was the installation of hall monitors. At the beginning of the year Nathele Ristc and June Har- vey were hired, later Gerri Wetmore joined the staff. Eventually all three left and were replaced by Brenda Richards at the end of the year. The hall monitors were hired in order to allow teachers to have more time in preparation for their classes. In previous years the teachers roamed the halls at lunch and break to make sure students weren't getting into mischief. The hall monitors relieved them of that duty in order to do their job—teach. Yet, many students were, and still are, opposed to the idea of having hall monitors. Some feel it’s the dean's job. that its a waste of money to hire people to walk around the halls. Others feel that hall monitors are prison guards and that they treat students with behavior that re- sembles their second grade teachers. While many people have com- plained, hall monitoring became less strict through the year, and wasn't a great inconvienience to many stu- dents. Teachers were also very pleased with the noise-free halls dur- ing class periods. r i Mrs. Paulann Petersen. Mrs. Petersen The following article was edited from the article written by Layne Creason. that ap- peared in the May • , 1986 issue of the Herald and News. Next year's AP English students arc in for somewhat of a disappoint- ment. Mrs. Paulann Petersen, who has taught the course for seven years has decided to switch roles and spend a year as a student writer. Mrs. Petersen received the honor of being chosen for a Wallace Stegner Fellow- ship in Creative Writing at Stanford University. I never tried for anything like this before ... I thought my chances were between slim and none, said Petersen. The poetry she sent to Stanford was good enough to get her a Stegner Fellowship for the coming academic year. She's one of four promising writers from across the country awarded the prized fellow- ship. It was like a dream come true, said Petersen, of the award that will give her a year of freedom from her teaching duties to pursue her writing. This stretch of writing ahead of me is a real gift. It's a gift of time and opportunity to learn from excellent teachers. The fellowship will pay Petersen's tuition at Stanford plus an $8,000 sti- pend for living costs. She will attend graduate level courses in poetry taught by distinguished writers two days a week and spend the rest of the time writing. Anybody who's ever tried to write, hold down a job and spend time with a family realizes how hard it is. said Petersen. This fellowship frees a person for an academic year to write. That's what it is all about. Petersen and the three other Stegner fellows were chosen from more than 150 applicants. Before she finishes at Stanford. Petersen plans to have a book ready to send to publishers. She has been published in a number of small mag- azines, including. Calyx, Hubbub. Clearwater Journal and Blue Unicorn. School News-167