Poway High School - Odyssey Yearbook (Poway, CA)

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by Noel Mellon GeT SmarT . Campuses all in over Son Diego showed The laTesT fashion Trend: The uGeT SmarT buT- A is ssl1ll'l Ton. Channel EighT sponsored The AnTi-drug cam- paign in our schools. San Diego also did iTs parT in The naTion's fighT againsT drugs. By vviTnessing marches, rallies, and special pro- grams, The counTry increased iT's awareness of The problem. VolunTary drug TesTing became popular in governmenT, businesses, and even in schools. AfTer decades of abuse, America had finally Taken The firsT sTep Towards TerminaTion: awareness. uVVe musT make drug use The Top iTem in The naTional dia- logue, sTaTed PresidenT Ronald Reagan. YeT Amer- ica sTill has a vvay To go in ridding The counTry of abuse. AlThough laws have TighTened around push- ers and smugglers, pounds of narcoTics pass Through our borders undeTecTed. c ,iibiiuii ,M .gill , '. T ' sl f .HL ,,, fr ' - ' . 1.9 f I Il I STudenTs sporT popular UG-eT SmarT buTTons. Moonlighfing sTars Shepherd and Willis named man and woman of The year. in memory of Ronnie Robenson, sophomore, who passed away. He had a hearii candiTion. 322 CurrenT Evenis Woman of The Year Philippine Presi- denT Corazon Aauino, named woman of The Year by Dme magazine, sTands proud as The leader of The SouTheasT Asian counTry including 56 million peo- ple and more Than 7000 islands. As The vvorld looked on she led a campaign To overThrovv former presidenT Ferdinand Marcos and Then resTored The pride of her counTrymen. AIThough a naive po- liTical leader aT This poinT, she conTinues To learn and has never booked down from her imporTanT posiTion. Happy BirThday Harvard Harvard, one of The UniTed STaTes' oldesT and mosT presTi- gious privaTe universiTies puT The 350Th candle on iT's cake This pasT year. The school has graduaied many powerful people such as John F. Kennedy, Frank- lin D. Posseveli, and John Adams. IT has received 29 Nobel prizes Thus Tar. Har- vard's ouTsTanding repuTaTion of ex- Corazon Aauino confidenTly rules The Philippines VH

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Presidenf Reagan and Gorbachev disagree during The summiT. STar Wars Sinks SummiT Images of peace were hopefully on The hori- zon when PresidenT Reagan and Mikhail Gorba- chev held a series of meeTings in Iceland. Nego- TiaTions halTed when The Two couldn'T come To an agreemenT over 'lSTar Wars, a space- based shield of anTi-missile saTelliTes. Corn shriveled in The souTheasT because of droughT. Llncurable Killer A.l.D.S., or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Took iTs Toll in The UniTed STaTes. Already, 4 To 4.5 million Americans are ThoughT To be infecTed wiTh The virus. The numbers conTinue To escalaTe. The Public l-lealTh Service predicTs ThaT by The end of iTs firsT decade, 4994, 480,000 A.l.D.S. vicTims will have died. ScienTisTs conTinue To look for possible cures. Sailing To Fame Adding one on To The 432-year winning sTreak, Dennis O'Connor sailed The Sfars ana'STripes back To iTs homeTown of San Diego for celebraTion over winning The America's Cup back from AusTra- lla. Racing besT ouT of seven, Sfars ana' Sfrpes Took The firsT four and any chance of reTaining The cup from New Zealand's Kookaburra. irrw vig ' 3 Dennis O'Connor broughT The America's Cup back To America. Current Evenls 321

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Sarah Ferguson weds Prince Andrew as The world looked on. :ellence confinues To linger wifh each graduaflng class. Royal Wedding: Two Down, One To go Lasf summer, Prince xndrew, The second son of England's Queen Elizabefh ll, and Sarah Fergie erguson, friend of Princess Diana, Tied he knof. Appearing in The spoflighf, hey received nof only a new spouse auf new Tifles as well - The Duke and Duchess of York. The ceremony was vafched by viewers all over The world 1s well as The Thousands in Brifain who wed The sTreeTs of London To see The :ouple before and affer. TV's Man and Woman of The Year The Holly- vood Radio and Television Sociefy famed acfor Bruce Willis and acfress Zybill Shepherd, sfars of ABC's hif Tele- fision series Moonighfing, as man and voman of The year. They porfray char- mcfers David Addison and Maddie layes, owners of a repufable defec- ive agency. Bofh The show and The 1cTors became popular This pasT year. 'he Cosby Show, sfarring Bill Cosby, sTill anks as one of The Top shows in The rafion. Top Gun Flies High Lasf summer, movie screens showed planes div- ing, spinning and soaring ThroughouT The sky. Top Gun, a movie abouf Navy fighfer piloTs and Their moves, impressed The public. Tom Cruise porTrayed a more maTure role com- pared To his pasT characTers. The publiciTy boosTed The enrollmenf inTo The Navy and Air Force. Come on, one Thousand! Vanna VVhiTe, leTTer Turner on one of Televi- sion's mosT popular game shows, Wheel of Forfune, was infroduced To fame as her populariTy escalafed. Alfhough appearing on The show for many years in shimmering fashions, iT was nof unTil recenfly ThaT her hos- Tess posifion became acknowl- edged. She inspired game show hosfesses wiTh her sincerlfy. Tom Cruise, flying high as sTar of Top Gun. Current Evenls 323