Robbinsdale High School - Robin Yearbook (Robbinsdale, MN)

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This page, top to bottom. The U.S. and Japanese yachts are shown in the ill fated Admirals’ Cup race off England; More than 5,000 persons are reported killed in India after a dam collapsed; An Honor Guard escorts the coffin of Lord Earl Mounbatten. Opposite page, top to bottom: Correspondent Bill Stewart is killed in Nicaragua; Gold Bars remain in the U.S. Mint in San Francisco as the price soars; Skylab’s final orbit ends over Australia. 2. International News

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Striving for goals. .. ROBIN 80 Robbmsdale Senior High School 3730 Toledo Avenue North Robbmsdale. Minnesota 55422 Volume XLII Introduction 2 Student Lite 8 Drama and Music 38 Athletics 62 Classes 110 Faces 136

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Cowper of. Violence, tragedy shock world Shocked at the news of CBS journalist Bill Stewart’s shooting death in Nicaragua, the world paused to reflect on this unfortunate incident, and pondered the causes behind the force that erupted in this deliberate display of violence. Unsuspecting citizens of Morvi, India, failed to save a major dam from bursting and thousands were virtually washed away in the resulting wall of water. The gold rush of 1979 left the American economy in a complete frenzy, as prices reached an all time high of over $500 an ounce. Anticipation of the fall of Skylab prompted the sale of “Target’’ T-shirts before it disintegrated over sparsely populated Nullarbor Plain in Australia, fortunately causing little damage and no loss of lives. Torn apart by seemingly endless religious conflict the people of Ireland experienced a brutal eruption of human emotion when English Lord Louis Montbatten was murdered by the IRA who placed a bomb aboard his fishing boat. England experienced another tragedy when a sudden, unpredicted storm with winds up to 75 knots hit an annual yacht race and caused the worst disaster in yachting history taking nineteen lives. “Such stuff the world is made , +n International News 3.