New Haven High School - Mirage Yearbook (New Haven, IN)

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riQtionQl cQp ule spcaftUM 16- No give all take Iran took 50 United States citizens hostage. The International Han ester strike took its time. The U.S.S.R. took Afghanistan. The U.S. took away the glory of the Olympics. President Carter took the primaries. And the OPEC countries took us for a ride. Taking is what truly characterized news year 79- ' 80. In a year of rising inflation and faltering public opinions our community held through some of the most devastating events in years. While Khoemini held the hostages and the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in their drive to the seas, we endured a Harvester strike. While blue collar workers at the plant built strike shacks at the main entrance to the plant, nervous white collar workers came in the back of the plant through sabotaged entrances. As strike pay ran out many of the strikers dug into their savings or looked for temporary jobs. In the worst of it, even the students of the strikers were reluctant to talk about the predicament. Another event that hit home more than most was the U.S. ' s decision to pull out of the Moscow summer National capsule Olympics. Many in the community felt that the U.S.S.R. ' s invasion of Afghanistan was unnecessary and so caused the boycott by the United States of the summer Olympics. Because of the Soviets ' action for the first time in 20 years the cold war was activited, along with patriotism, and threatened registration for the draft. But one thing seemed to bother the more conscientious! What will happen to the athletes who trained so long for the Olympics now that it has all been taken away? The news that affected the teenager the most was the triple digit gas prices in the course of six months: The price of gas went up 50 cents leaving many students out in the cold or on a bus. In a year of all this ' taking ' one could only hope, that when they got home in the evening, something good was playing on HBO. Cold facts The school suffered its first snow day drought since 1 972. Only one snow day was recorded this year. Students and teachers felt cheated after eight years of several snow vacations. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: the man behind Iran. Eucher and checkers were played by stricing Harvester employees.

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lid will creak — And as all the children take their peek Poor Mary ' s lost For it like her so she loved it A weed the English never lit A drink her mother never knew: A chance at living May blew away . . . Stephen Phillip Nelson Young actor I looked out on the ennpty seats where darkness is the light and the red velvet of lite is soft ash gray. I say my speech, throw high my laugh to the silent specters of applause. I stand at a curtain lowered for someone else and feel the splash of imaginary spotlights. I weep of death to unseen throngs and dance and sing for nonexistent cheers. I stand on stage, a ghost myself, the star within me not yet born, — Janet Kanable. Universal Man •4680031 72, by Dave Tarr, Art Department The Butterfly, by Dave Tarr. Art Department Head Arts— 15

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Back home in New Haven, Mr. Paul Armstrong completed his final year at the high school before going into retirement. National capsule — 17