Mount Union College - Unonian Yearbook (Alliance, OH)

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COVER STORIES 1985 COVER STORIES 1985 COVER STORIES 1985 Section Credit: AP Wide World Photos ' The Statue of Liberty celebrated her 98th birthday in 1984 and she began to show y CHEERS TO her age. The statue was worn from constant pummeling by wind, salt air and acid THE FUTURE rain, and the iron ribbing supporting the copper covering was badly corroded. A See a two-year restoration began in July 1984. It included a new gold-plated torch.

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WILDERNESS TRIP 1984 For two weeks, 19 persons went to the Adiron- dack Park in New York State to live as deliberately as they could in the woods. The days were spent backpacking, camping, rock climbing, canoeing, and going on a solo experience. They shared mo- ments of reflection, intimate Conversations, agony, joy, and the unique feeling of closely interacting with Nature. “IT came to realize how little we need material things — like coffee in the morn- ing; and just how desperately we need hu- man support — that professed steadying hand, or that encouraging voice on the frail “I hold dear the memories of the sun shining through a spider web covered with dew, chipmunks scurrying from one tree to the nest, the sight of a newborn calf or colt. There has been a door opened in my life because of this trip. I’m seeing many old faces and some new, but realizing there ts much more about them than I perceived at first. | now yearn to discover new interests in others and to open myself up to the people I come in contact with.”

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— VICTORY — DEFEAT — VICTORY — DEFEAT — VICTORY — President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George Bush sought re-election in 1984. He vowed not to raise taxes and ran on his record of the previous four years. President Reagan won re-election with the big- gest electoral vote in the nation’s history. He won 49 states with 49 percent of the total vote. The photo shows President and Mrs. Reagan at the victory celebration on election night, No- vember 6, 1984. Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mon- dale made history when he chose a woman, Ger- aldine Ferraro as his vice presidential running mate. Mondale and Ferraro were nominated on the Democratic ticket at the party convention in San Francisco in July. He announced early in his campaign that to lower the federal deficit in- creased taxes would be necessary. ELECTION ’84