Pleasant Grove High School - Grove Yearbook (Texarkana, TX)

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Paul Hogan as Crocodile Dundee poses with his namesake. From 'Moonligh ting' to Max Headroom, the news was filled with the year's Big Events rom terrorism to Top Gun, hot topics filled the news all year round. lt contained anything from music and movies, people and politics, new fads and new changes, to the ups and dovmms of the sports world. At the top of the news, in most students' opinion was terrorism. Between the hi- jackings and kidnappings in foreign countries, many be- gan to wonder how safe it was to travel outside the United States. lt seems like every time you turn around someone has been taken hostage or another country in the Middle East has gone to war, said Gerri Felling. Other than terrorism, the po- litical scene was busted wide open with the cover-up by the White House over the Contra Arms deal. I think President Reagan could have found a better way to get the hostages free with out having to sell arms to iran, stated Ronda Coleman. Also on students' minds was the growing threat of AIDS. The dreaded disease ended the lives ofthousands of people including that of the famous music entertain- 'A Mt: M wma aww W T er, Liberace. Death also marked the movie world with the loss of Cary Grant. The suave and debonair actor died at 82, giving his last per- formance at the Perot The- atre in Texarkana. Though most students didn't find much interest in the tragic news, they all seemed to keep up with what was hot . . . music, movies, celebrities, sports, and of course new fads. On that scene, students enjoyed rocking to the beat of live concerts, especially those of the up and coming, hot new groups. 'Seeing Bon Jovi in concert was awesome, said Jerry Moody. According to students, Whitney Houston and Janet Jackson were also among the popular singers. Then in flew the adventure film of the year, Top Gun. And along with it came its sizzling star Tom Cruise. But adventure wasn't the only thing that attracted movie- goersp comedy was also in the high ranks. Crocodile Dundee was one ofthe funni- est movies l've seen in a long time, said Craig Mueller. Movies however, didn't dominate everyone's atten- tion. Even in television, new stars seemed to be popping up everywhere. From the af- ter hours show Moonlighting came two of the year's most talked about celebrities, Cybil Shepard and Bruce Wil- lis. 'iThey are the HOTTEST couple on T.V., said Tam- mie Willett. And then like every year the sports world had its high and low points. With an in- vestigation by the NCAA, the SMU Mustangs received what was commonly knomm as the 'ideath penalty. This kept SMU from having a foot- ball team for the 1987 sea- son because they were caught paying recruits to come play for them. On a more positive side was Den- nis Conner and his Stars and Stripes. ln February, Conner and his crew came from Udovmm under and defeated the Aussies to bring the American Cup back home. Even though every year has its good points and bad points, most students agree that there are always things people will never forget. Hent Life Page spons'

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'uv'- ws s Max Headroom was introduced as the world's first computer-generated TV host. The young and popular rock star, Whit- ney Houston, was still on the top of the charts with hit songs. Bruce Willis became, one of the most Tom Cruise was the sexy star of Top popular celebrities,of TV, movies, and Gun, one ofthe biggest money-making music. movies of the year. , IYCWSA OIT the I local 7 scene Local news r was on students' minds when a tragedy Ihit close to home in Febf ruary: Daryl I Crouch, presi- . dent of Walsh- Lumpkin. died in a car bomb ex- plosion in the parking lot of his business on State Line. Stu- I d e n t s w e r e shocked by the incident which always I happens some- where else, but not in Texar- kana. Police were still investi- I gating the blast, which injured Crouch's wife I and daughter, at year's end. A PG student was also in- volved in local news. Gretchen . Lemke, who works as a wait- ress at Howard Johnson's, was in the restaurant when another waitress was tak- en hostage. I re- ally didn't realize what was going on at the time. she said After that, it was scary. The incl- dent ended when another employ- ee was injured with a gunshot wound and the gunmen was arrested. News 55