Paoli High School - Hillcrest Yearbook (Paoli, IN)

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But when your fuse fizzles . . .

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Then there were the days when it seemed that our lights were being hidden by a cloud. We had to dim our switches and give our batteries time to recharge. We found class hours the best for recuperating from a weekend full of cruising the Pizza Hut and partying with friends. Although studying was a must at PHS, some didn’t find it anything to get too enthused about. With the end of the season blues, we slowed down long enough to look back on the energy we had dispelled throughout the year. We remembered the times when the switch couldn’t make the push from off to on, and we accepted all these times as patiently as possible, waiting for the time when we could once again steal the spotlight and find our time to shine. 6 Opening

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THE WORLD IN ’84 Death and destruction took its toll in ’83 and '84 as the world witnessed fatal acts in the Middle East. The United States and other involved countries were shocked when a missile-firing Soviet MiG fighter plane shot down a South Korean jetliner. Two hundred sixty-nine passengers were killed, thirty of which were Americans. The Soviets wrote off the act of violence as a defense of their airspace. What started out as a peacekeeping project in Lebanon ended up in a shambles. On October 23, 1983 a “bomb truck” entered US headquarters. America wept for some 250 marines who were pronounced dead. Two days later the United States and six Caribbean nations invaded the small island of Grenada in order to prevent a bloody takeover by a group of leftist terrorists. After five months the peacekeeping mission in Lebanon was thrown in reverse as Marines started moving from their bunkers to the US Sixth Fleet offshore. Meanwhile in America, civilians created their own riots in an attempt to purchase a Cabbage Patch doll. One shopper suffered a broken leg as a result of a “Christmas mob” in Pennsylvania. Former Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt discovered that joking wasn’t his bag as he humorously described his staff as a black, a woman, two Jews, and a cripple. After removing his foot from his mouth and experiencing much ridicule, Watt resigned. George Orwell’s novel, 1984 didn’t coincide with the real thing as the new year was rung in, minus one big brother. Although the winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, went as planned, the Soviets threw a wrench in the summer games scheduled at Los Angeles. The USSR and her satellites boycotted the games and planned to hold their own communist Olympics. Ma Bell sang the blues in tune to “Breaking up is hard to do” as AT T was forced to divide eight ways after 107 years of service. The intricate relationship between religion and government was put on the line as President Reagan proposed a constitutional amendment to permit organized prayer in the public schools. The vote results were 11 short of the two-thirds majority required for passage. Hitting a little closer to home, Indiana passed a new state law that altered a lot of drivers’ party plans. Persons caught driving under the influence will receive more than a slap on the wrist as many will spend 8 Mini Magazine