Norman Thomas High School - Hourglass Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Senior ---Ye - The 1984 Grammy Awards in BEST SINGLE RECORD .... BEST SINGLE ALBUM . . . BEST COMEDY ALBUM .... BEST POP GROUP VOCAL ..........,, BEST ROCK GROUP PERFORMANCE ..., BEST ROCK INSTRUMENTAL ....... Beat It by Michael Jackson Thriller by Michael Jackson Comedians, by Eddie Murphy Every Breath You Takew by The Police Synchronicity by The Police Brimstone 81 Treaclew by Sting BEST FEMALE VOCALIST .... What a Feeling by Irene Cara BEST NEW ARTIST .................. .... C ulture Club BEST ROCK FEMALE PERFORMANCE ..... . . . Pat Benatar BEST MALE VOCALIST - FOR ROCK ............ .,.. Q G Fort RHYTHM at BIJUES For: POP r....,....,.. BEST POP INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE ..... .... 4 4 Beat it by Michael Jackson Billie Jean by Michael Jackson Thrilleri' by Michael Jackson Being With Youw by George Benson BEST RECORD PRODUCERS OF THE YEAR ,... . . . Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones BEST ORIGINAL BROADWAY SHOW ALBUM ..., . . . Cats BEST ORIGINAL SCORE SOUND TRACK .,... .,,. F lashdance BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION ...,. .... 4 4Love Theme by Irene Cara Mi' MICHAEL JACKSON MADE GRAMMY HISTORY BY WINNING A RECORD 8 AWARDS AND BEING NOMINATED FOR 12 PRIZES IN I0 CATEGORIES. HE SURPASSES PAUL SIMON WHO WON 7 AWARDS BACK IN 1970! 208

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ar Memories - Major ews Events - First Black woman becomes Miss America Russians shoot down jet killing 269 people Farmers hit with greatest drought in the midwest since the great depression Prime Minister Begin of Israel resigns' President Reagan sends troops to Beirut America loses yacht race to the Australians . . . First time in 1 32 years! ll Eastern Air Lines and Continental Air Lines file for bankruptcy The New York Jets move to New Jersey Cardinal Terrence Cooke dies of Leukemia Secretary of the Interior James Watt resigns The Orioles win the 1 983 World Series Congress creates Martin Luther King as an official holiday starting 1985 Over 225 marines are killed in Beirut by terrorists The U.S. Army invades Grenada to oust Caribbean dictator President Carter's mother, Lillian dies at 85 Earthquake in Eastern Turkey killing over 1 200 people A bomb explodes in the United States Senate . . . No one hurt New York City gets its first black Police Commissioner Philadelphia gets its first black Mayor The Grucci Fireworks Company on Long Island explodes The entire United States population focuses on the movie The Day Afteri' Riots break out in stores over the Cabbage Patch Christmas Doll Pope John Paul visits the perpetrator who shot him in 1981 Reverend Jesse Jackson flies to Syria to help free captured Navy pilot The Nations largest monopoly, ATSLT is ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court to break up at midnight . . . January 1 984 The Los Angeles Raiders win the Super Bowl . . . 38-9 defeating the Redskins President Reagan runs for re-election A Chorus Line is officially the longest running broadway show in history Soviet leader Andropov dies of kidney failure Bishop O'Connor of Scranton, Penn. is names successor to the late Cardinal Cooke Beirut falls to the rebels in February 1984 . . . New government is sought President Reagan orders Marines to evacuate Lebanon American astronauts are the first to walk in space without a life-line! Michael Jackson is entered into the Guiness Book of Records for selling most albums ever Mrs. Margaret Rogers of the Secretarial Dept. takes over as Senior Advisor Feb. 1984 The Winter Olympics opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia Michael Jackson receives scalp burns filming a T.V. commercial Victims of A.1.D.S. are on the rise in N.Y.C. Millions are given by the gov't for A.1.D.S. research Mayor Koch orders all defective Gruman buses off N.Y.C. streets New York City celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge War expands in El Salvador Cancer causing Ethylene Di-Bromide fE.D.B.j found in nation's flour supply Leonid Brezhnev of Russia dies . . . Andropov takes over Siberian Express Arctic winds give the U.S.A. an all-time freezing winter record. Seven men seek the democratic Presidential nomination . . . Walter Mondale leads Konstatin Chernenko becomes the new leader of the Soviet Union Mr. Arnold Oftedal leaves N.T.H.S. to become Acting Interim Asst. Principal of James Monroe High School in the Bronx Ethel Merman dies at 75 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles