Oshkosh West High School - Notebook Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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Shopping Riot Current Prices In ‘84 Oxfords- $12.00 - $16.00 Ties- $3.00 - $5.00 Penny loafers- $22.00 Gum.- .25¢ Can of pop- .50¢ Levis- $16.00 Designer jeans- $28.00 - 32.00 Sweaters- $20.00 - $40.00 Suede rolled down boots- $26.00 Earrings- $3.00 - $5.00 Pizza- $5.00 - $10.00 Dress pants- $27.00 Haircut- $8.00 - $14.50 Movie- $3.75 Class ring- $70.00 and up Albums- $5.00 - $12.00 Seventeen- $1.75 Bandanas- .75¢ - $1.00 Purses- $8.00 - $12.00 Keds- $17.00 Beret- $12.00 14. Testing the new shades of lipstick at Prange’s Lois Carpenter, Traci Tollard, and Libby Davies experiment on each other. 2. At the Mad Hafteur, Ken Levine and Mike Heinbigner examine the top hits in music. 3. Reading what's new in books at Waldens, Mark Gordon and Wayne Zdanovec leaf through several. 4. Finding the latest fad in hats at Brooks, Kari Bohlssen and Brenda Herbst try them on. 5. Sizing up the shoes at Kinney’s, Christa Wolff and Jodie Schutz select the boots they like best.

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Cabbage Patch Kids Cause Huge The Plight of the Cabbage Patch Kid Unlike most people when Christmas rolls around, | can’t stand to shop. Luck- ily | was endowed with only one jewel of a sister, so therefore, | had only one present to purchase. As | soon found out, even purchasing one present was a monumental task. | know! A Cabbage Patch doll — just what she wanted, and! wouldn't even have to return it. Unfortunately, every other kid presently residing in the conti- nental United States wanted one too. After standing in four feet of snow wait- ing for the bus, | began to think of giv- ing Little Freak Face my last year’s gym socks. They should fit her by now. My thoughts were interrupted as | was sud- denly buried. Déja vu! No, not home- work; snow. The bus had arrived. The doors opened and | was propelled amidst a sea of shoppers into store after store after store. No remains of Cabbage Patch Kids could be found. Even the names had been changed to Chatty Cathy and Baby-Cries-a-Lot. Discour- aged, | turned and heard a distant rum- ble. The Manager screamed in panic. Eight Cabbage Patch Kids were being made into slaw. The shoppers, in their eagerness, were unknowingly wring- ing the necks of the Cabbage Patch dolls. | went home. The situation was impossible. If my sister was going to get a Cabbage Patch doll, it was up to Saint Nick. -Kelly Sedlachek apy - a | Cay rt my e so

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Try This People Quiz 1. What PRINCESS, for the second time since her fairy-tale marriage, is pregnant? 2. What MALE LEAD SINGER was named to Blackwell's Ten Worst Dressed Women list? 3. What famous SPORTS CAR MAKER was arrested for trying to sell cocaine? 4. What C VIL RIGHTS LEADER of the 1960's birthday was declared a national holiday? 5. What FEMALE NEWSCASTER filed a sex-discrimination suit against her employers and won? 6. What MALE SOLOIST had phenomenal success with his album Thriller? It was the biggest selling album of all time. 7. What two EVENING NEWSCASTERS died? One died as the result of a car accident, the other of viral hepatitis and bone cancer. 8. What NFL PLAYER signed a contract with a USFL team; while still under contract to the NFL? 9. What SOVIET LEADER died after not appearing in public for six months? 10. What SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PLAYER found success in movies (48 Hours, Trading Places), his own album, a concert shown on pay-TV, and was on the cover of Rolling Stone? January 3- When Syria freed U.S. flier Navy Lt. Robert Good- man after Rev. Jesse Jackson made an appeal to Syrian presi- dent Hafez al-Assad to free him. January 2- Miami defeated Ne- vada 31-30 in the Orange Bowl. New Orleans won the Sugar Bowl against Michigan 9-7. Cali- fornia beat Illinois 45-9 in the Rose Bowl. Georgia slipped past Texas 10-9 in the Cotton Bow! in Dallas. Ohio State beat Pitts- burgh 28-23 in the Fiesta Bowl, Tempe, Arizona. January 6- A Austrailian woman gave birth to four test tube ba- bies in Melborne, Austrailia. January 12- The study of 10 years of 3806 men with high cholesterol levels showed that lowering cholesterol reduced the possibility of heart disease. January 15- The eight major democratic presidential candi- dates engaged in long and, at times, lively debates, nationally telecast from New Hampshire. January 23- An estimate of thir- ty thousand to fifty thousand people took part in an anti- abortion demonstration in Washington D.C. January 22. The Los Angeles Raiders defeated the Washing- ton Redskins 38-9 in the eigh- teenth Super Bowl. January 31- Thriller was the all- time best-selling album of the year, went platinum and was on the top of both the pop and soul charts.