Regis College - Mount Regis Yearbook (Weston, MA)

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Channel 5 newscaster Natalie Jacobson gives helpful advice to up-and-coming anchorwomen at Regis College, April, 1980. The Gang of Four (disciples of Mao) go to trial in December, 1980 after unsuccessfully trying to stage a coup in Shanghai in 1976 after Mao’s death. Richard Pryor burns ove r half his body in an explosion while free-basing on June 9, 1980. Pryor, who was given a one in three chance of survival, is relaased from a South- ern California hospital on July 25. Karol Wojtyla of Poland is elected Pope of the Roman Catholic Church on October 16, 1978. The new John Paul II, who is the first non-Italian to be chosen in 456 years, succeeds John Paul I, who died 34 days after being se- lected as Pope. Millions get a “peek at the Pope” when he comes to Boston October 1, 1979. Brenda Spencer, a teen-aged sniper who killed two persons and wounded nine others when she open fired on a San Diego, CA. ele- mentary school because she “didn’t like Mon- days” is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison on November 30, 1979. Rely Tampons are recalled by Procter and Gamble under order from the F.D.A. in Oc- tober, 1980. The tam- pons are thought to cause Toxic Shock Syndrome, a rare and sometimes fatal disor- der. II ■ i In the second worst hotel fire in U.S. histo- ry, the M-G-M Grand Hotel in Las Vegas ex- plodes in flames on No- vember 26, 1980: the fire killed 83 people and injured 400 others. 12 Boston’s renowned “Home of punk,” the Rat, lo- cated in Kenmore Square. Let’s Go to the Rat, oh Baby!