Regis College - Mount Regis Yearbook (Weston, MA)

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CURRENT Monday through Friday, from 3:00 to 4:00, mothers, students, and grade-school children alike watch the nation’s most popular soap, “General Hospital.” Will Jeff discover that P.J. is really Steven Lars and will Luke and Laura get back together? How about Rick and Leslie, or Ann and Joe Kelley, or Alan Quarter- miane and Amy? What will become of Scotty Baldwin? Only California knows for sure. 911 persons are found dead in the People’s Temple mass murder — suicides in Jonestown, Guyana on November 30, 1978. Spurred on by cult leader, Jim Jones, most die by drinking Kool-Aid mixed with cyanide. Famed Boston “Bad Boy”, J. Ceils visits Regis campus in No- vember, 1978. Ronald Reagan over- whelmingly defeats Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory for the presidency on No- vember 4, 1980. Reagan is installed as the 40th Presi- dent of the United States. Peter Sellers, the British comedian best known for his por- trayal of the bum- bling “Inspector Clouseau,” in the “Pink Panther” series, dies in Lon- don, July 4, 1980 of a heart attack. A gasoline shortage hits America once again during the summer of 1979. Who will ever forget those long, winding gas lines that stretched for three blocks from the pumping sta- tion? The average price of gas — $1 a gallon. Patty Hearst is released from a California prison on February 1, 1979 under an executive clemency order signed by President Carter. Hearst had served 22 months of a seven-year sentence for her conviction on bank robbery charges.

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EVENTS Iranian students seize the U.S. Embassy along with 60 American hostages on No- vember 4, 1979. Iran pro- poses a trade of the hostages for the Shah. One year later, 52 Americans are still being held by the Iranians. John Wayne, also known as “the Duke,” dies June 1 1, 1979 of complications from can- cer. Wayne, who won an Oscar for his role in “True Grit,” was 72. Starlight, Starbright First Star I see in sight. Wish I may. Wish I might. Get the date I’d like to- night. Jackie Oh. Eleven rock fans are trampled to death at a Who concert at the Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, Ohio on December 3, 1979. The Hamilton County, Ohio’s coronor’s office said that the eleven victims all died from asphyxiation. The first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, is born July 25, 1978 in Lancashire, England. The 5-pound, 15-ounce infant was delivered by Caesar- ian section. Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager are sentenced to three and a half years in prison and are fined $20,000 each for income tax evasion. One of the most famous jet set crash pads. Studio 54 played host to many luminaries such as Halston, Liza Minelli, Andy Warhol and Bianca dagger. Will we ever forget the blizzard of ’78? From Febru- ary 5 to February 7, a record-breaking 27 inches is dropped on New England. That meant no school for a week, bans on leaving campus, walking trips to the Triple A, food shortages, and a raging flue that went around campus. Somehow, we all survived and anxiously await- ed the next massive snowfall.