Shepherd University - Cohongoroota Yearbook (Shepherdstown, WV)

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Jan. 20, 1981 11:57 a.m. Ronald Wilson Reagan, 69, was sworn in as the 40th President of the United States Jan. 20, 1981 at 11:57 a.m. 12:33 p.m. As President Reagan concluded his inaugural address at 12:33 p.m. QESTJ, the first of two Algerian airliners transporting the 52 hostages left Teheran's Mehabad Airport. The 52 American hostages had been officially released after 444 days of captivity in Iran. The Front Page tr Jgraplz-v and dvszgn by M lla' N uelzvl Super Bowl XVI In Super Bowl XVI, played on Jan. 24, 1982, the San Francisco 49ers beat the Cincinnati Bengals 26-21. The first Super Bowl ever held in a snowbelt city, the game was played in the Pontiac CMichiganJ Silverdome in front of 81,270 fans and to a national television audience of 105 million. . . . Continued on pages 74,75 Due to mounting unrest and diminishing authority, the Polish government, on Dec. 13, 1981, declared a state of emergency and issued a temporary decree of martial law curtailing civil rights and halting operations of Poland's independent trade union federation, Solidarity. These developments were apparently caused by Solidarity's decision on Dec. 12, 1981 to call for a nationwide referendum to decide whether to retain or reject the communist system of government. ..-I if gm . ix Nu ,- 5

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KV hllllll- 4-uu ,ffnnllf hy ...,5,,,-QL, Sinn -4 v 4 O I 0 0 Air Florida On Jan. 13, 1982 a Tampa-bound Air Florida Boeing 737 crashed in Washington, D.C. into the Potomac River, killing 78 people. Daring rescue attempts were made in the sub-zero temperatures by municipal, parks and emergency squads. Five passengers were pulled from the icy waters before they succumbed to the cold. Columbia. . . . . .Space Shuttle Columbia, the world's first reusable spacecraft, lifted off from Cape Canaverla, Fla., on its third and longest journey March 23, 1982. After 129 orbits and 8 days in space, the shuttle successfully landed at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., at 9:05 a.m. fmountain timel March 31, 1982. l r ? .1 3 W

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. N . ' S S C' tf' cf. Sl sits? iris-iiliiliti IDE. N Kwlso S lf, 5, N X 1981 Copy by Theresa Hanuk Photography by Jim Thomas Design by Marv Lou Uftermohlen 1981, designated by the United Nations as the Interna- tional Year of Disabled Persons CIYDPJ, serves as a mile- stone in the lives of the 450 million disabled persons throughout the world today. For the first time in history, the contributions and needs of disabled citizens are receiving world-wide recognition. And it's about time! Long regarded as second-class citizens, disabled persons have been denied the chance to have a decent education, a job and the other joys of life that many take for granted. In education, students with disabilities in seeing, hearing and mobility were often sent to special schools which dealt solely with students of the same disability. Students who were labeled mentally retarded were sent to other state institutions which were often less effective than the special schools. Some students, however, lived at home and at- tended city schools where classes were created to deal with their particular needs. Students with minor problems such as speech difficulties or learning disabilities attended spe- cial education classes in public schools. However, these stu- dents were not guaranteed a key to the future any more than those who attended the other kinds of schools. With the idea of mainstreaming, children who were sent 6 to special schools, institutions, or special education classes in public schools were allowed to attend schools in their town or district. This fostered a lot of positive and negative actions and feelings. Teachers had to learn skills necessary to teach speech classes for the hearing impaired and those children with other speech difficulties, braille and mobility for the blind, and basic remedial classes for those with learn- ing disabilities. When the disabled student enters college, more than likely his instructors aren't going to have the special train- ing his elementary and high school teachers did. He must be ready to explain to college professors he is capable of han- dling classes and all the responsibility and work involved. Then he has to prove he can do it! The student has to draw on the resources of tutoring services to help him with his courses. After graduation, the disabled person is, more than likely, going to be expected to have more resources and references when applying for a job, especially in this day of high un- employment. In the past, persons with disabilities were de- nied jobs because employers assumed they wouldn't be able to do the work or that the job was too risky for them. In recent years this has changed. There are now disabled workers in industrial types of employment, as well as in desk jobs and teaching positions. In the past, the only type of