Safford High School - Ocotillo Yearbook (Safford, AZ)

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Crowning glory. Rhonda While, Miss Arizona and the former Miss Graham County, was eligible lo compete in lhe Miss llmerica pageanl, which was held in New lersey. Here, she displays lhe crown which she received in Yuma, Arizona. Ready, aim, fire. Minor grass fires sprung up on several occasions around Graham county. Here, hre hghfers lake care of a small blaze. LOCAL NEWS me And November 12-19 Es officially declared Norma Bellamy eek, for her outstand- g contributions to fford High sports. rlier in the year, Mrs. Ilamy led Safford's lleyball team to their xteenth state victory. Tania Lea Pye, a sen- ir from New Zealand, nd the sixth foreign xchange student at afford High, arrived at we beginning of the -econd semester. The weather in Gra- Em County made big ws this past year. igh winds in the May '84 caused damage several homes and ve firefighters prob- :ms with grass fires. A iajor storm hit the val- ley one weekend, caus- ing- flooded streets, downed tree limbs and electrical outages that lasted as late as Mon- day afternoon. Most of the damage was cen- tered in the downtown Safford area. The Gold- en Corral and Tiki signs were badly damaged, as well as the roof of the Pizza Hut. And fi- nally, the events that caused the most joy and wonder, the snows. People woke to a winter wonderland once in '84 and again in early '85. Although the snow didn't stay on the ground for more than one day either time, everybody enjoyed it while it lasted, Some students who made lo- cal news included Sen- ior Laura Call, who was chosen by the Rickover Science Institute to at- tend classes in Science and math for six weeks in Washington D.C. Mike Player and Paige Randall both re- ceived 1's at the Dis- trict Music Festival. Paige earned honors in vocal and piano areas and Mike in vocal. He was also selected as lead bass for all-dis- trict. Kim Sansom was se- lected as a Southern Belle and will be travel- ing to Seattle, Washing- ton and Atlanta in the near future. She also won a national award for Order of Rainbow. Taking first place at a Scottsdale bowling tournament were Freshmen Valerie Hartner and Roxanne Martin. They competed against other doubles teams from all over the state. And the FFA traveled to Douglas for another competition. Robert Barney won the District information contest, Reed Larson placed 2nd in Extemporane- ous Speaking and will go on to state, and Ruth Ann Skinner placed 3rd in the same competition. The class's Parliament Pro- cedure team of six placed 4th. A car accident claimed the lives of Ju- lie Peck and Alex Hor- nalez.

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lllwl Local news was prob- - ably more important to Safford residents than any of the major world happenings. Here are some of the events which involved us. Just before Christ- mas, Phelps Dodge an- nounced the closing of the smelter in Morenci. The low price of copper Future construction, These architec- tural plans illustrate what Salford High will look like in future years. The addi- tion of a vocational building is sched- uled to be completed by the end of the '86 school year. was the evident reason for the shutdown that cost over 400 workers their jobs. At this writ- ing, the strike in Mor- enci has been going on for two years. Carol Macdonald was elected as Safford's first woman mayor, succeeding Paul Shedd. The November elec- tion brought some sur- prises, as Republican Jim Kolbe beat Demo- crat Jim McNulty for the District 5 U.S. Re- presentative seat. emma vga.. my I I I A P- ' - - . . wt IA 'Ann l B., , , ..,i.vl.w. w...ta,.. , mlsm um Wm. i... . -' M , ' ' c . if mm g -X l an , .uma e-' 1.5 l T - w, --- - w....m. in--r-0 S ,, ,, 21:51 , gggg J '.......g,..,n uwm i ' sm' 'MJ4i.,. L.. ww.. -. E... . . . - 1,-f . it 'x W. . U i. ..... i E, ., we was l . , . . . . ll , S., st, 1 - . 47.-l..,iL, X vnen.u...t . wwe.. -Q. W-ie . .wt-.-W.-e Austrian- mn -A--ann mn mmm.. .- L Q N. ,f...Mf.-tm.-fm an . 5- ni 5 '4 H ' ' nu-ran ui in n -ucv M j Hugh Hamman and Delbert Householder were beaten out of their Graham County Board of Supervisor seats by Ben Smith and Ralph Orr. And finally, Roy Curtis once again was elected Graham County Sheriff, after beating challenger Steve Vukcevich. The Swift Trail prison camp was converted to a Level ll, Medium Se- curity Federal Prison. For the first time since the Miss Graham County contest began, a local contestant w the state pageant! highest honor. Rhonc White, Miss Graha County was crown Miss Arizona in Yumg Around the schoc new school boa members were ele ed. Jim Brown, Zel Hawthorne, both fo mer teachers fro SHS were chosen ar William Konopnicki wa re-elected. Safford High wa awarded the Don Stone award for tt second year in a row '- - -x ,f- in.- .7 . iv.. -.. ., . ,-. ..t 'LQ-Q4 V ...i ...,..4.-,-,...,w -.,z..,M,,' , Iv A-'ri 'A V V-N 4 T 1 wt-1+--f+i--M. -'aiming-'ff'gg,..' N X -.: - - ' ' -- ,W 1 161: N- Q T 4 i -'.'.,3,1 ,-k- I ef kd I -V ig 4. 1 . -. V 5 , - -' 1 ' ' -'arf ,-if - ' N. ut...-1' .umm IU ' I 4 .,.. -..... .... ..... -A,,c,,a um Awtmn , nr. mu-:mv u 1

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Shattered dreams. Following her heartbreaking fall at the 0h'mpio games, Mary Decker verbalb' attacked Zola Budd the runner who cut in front of her and possibb' trmped her. WORLD NEWS lt seems only fitting that a summary of the year begin with that year's top news story, and for 1984 that was without doubt the XXIII Olympiad. Just the fact that the Olympics were held in Los Angeles created quite a stir when the Soviet Union decided to boycott. They in- sisted that security mea- sures in LA were below stan- dard and that they would be placing their athletes in dan- ger should they have attend- ed. But even so, the games went as scheduled, made a record S150 million profit, was attended by 5.5 million spectators and was watched on TV by another 2.5 billion - over halt the population of the world. Winning four gold medals in track and field events, Carl Lewis also set a world record time in the 4X100-meter relay. The men's gymnastics team took the gold medal, thanks to outstanding routines by Bart Conners, Mitch Gaylord, Pe- ter Vidmar, Tim Dagget and Jim Hartung. And the women took the silver in team com- petition, with Mary Lou Ret- ton winning the first ever in- dividual gold medal by an American woman. Greg Lou- ganis scored two of the U.S.'s 83 golds when he took the diving competitions by storm, but there was disap- pointment at the games too. Mary Decker was favored to win the 3,000 meter run and was in tact leading the race when Zola Budd, running barefoot and for Great Bri- tain, passed her close on the outside. Decker tripped and went down, ending all hopes for a medal. The spirit that the Olympics created was evident in many of the events of 1984. Good and bad, happy and sad, wonder- ful and terrible, the happen- ings of the past year are all here. lt was another election year, with its endless con- ventions, debates, and speeches. But when the smoke cleared, the U.S. had lt's governmental leaders for the next four years chosen. Walter Mondale was consid- ered by many as the man who would put Reagan out of the White House, especially since he had Geraldine Fer- raro, the first woman to run for Vice-President, on the ticket with him. But when it got down to the actual votes, Mondale carried only Minne- sota and the District of Co- lumbia. George Bush filled the position of Vice-Presi- dent for his second term. On July 18th at four p.m. in San Ysidro, California, Brave Baby Fae. lust a few days after her operation, and a few weeks before her death, Baby Fae seems lo be in good health. Her actual identity wasn 't released to the press. Don't get them wet. This little Mogwai named Gizmo stole the hearts of movie- going audiences all over the country. Some of his favorite pastimes are watch- ing TIL driving cars, and singing. James Huberty, an unem- ployed security guard, walked into a local McDon- ald's heavily armed and be- gan shooting anyone who moved. Nineteen people