South Allegheny High School - De Nobis Yearbook (McKeesport, PA)

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S lwBeuiewf. . . The Super STeelers deTeaTed The Los Angeles Rams 3l-I9 in Super Bowl XIV To bring home The Vince Lombardi Trophy number Tour. On July 2. I979, The U.S. OovernmenT inTroduced The Susan B. AnThony dollar, The TirsT currency ever To TeaTure a woman's likeness. In The T980 Lake Placid WinTer Olympics The U.S.A. Hockey Team deTeaTed Russia and Finland Tor The gold medal. A member oT The U.S.A. Team, Mark Johnson. ioined The PiTTsburgh Penguins shorTly aTTer The Olympics. As inTlaTion devalued The dollar in I98O, The price oT gold rose To a record S920 a Troy ounce in March oT I98O, seTTing oTT a naTionwide panic. CapTain Willie led his PiraTe Family To vicTory over The BalTimore Orioles in The I979 World Series, making PiTTs- burgh The CiTy oT Champions. The price oT silver rose along wiTh The price oT gold in I98O, reaching a high oT S48 an ounce in March. T980 beTore drop- ping. The gas crunch hiT The U.S. in I98O, raising The price oT gas- oline over a dollar a gallon Tor The TirsT Time in US. hisTory. Pope John Paul Il's OcTober, T979 visiT To The U.S. was The TirsT Papal visiT To The US. since Pope Paul VI during The I96O's. PresidenT CarTer Taced many crises in his presidenTiaI Term, including: The Iran crises, The invasion oT ATghanisTan by Rus- sia, inTlaTion. and The gas crunch. ProTesTing UniTed STaTes' involvemenT wiTh The deposed Shah oT Iran, miliTanT Iranian sTudenTs seized The American Embassy in Tehran, Iran and, so Tar, have held 50 innocenT Americans hosTage Tor over I7O days. In I98O, inTeresT raTes on crediT cards soared To I8Of, and The PresidenT asked consumers To limiT Their crediT buying as parT oT his inTlaTion-TighTing plan. This year a mural was arTisTically developed in room QI4 by eighT oT The schoolis OTTice PracTice seniors: Mike WaskowiTz, LamonT Pierce, John Vehec. Elaine RusTeikas, Debby KanTorc- zyk, Befh Corbin, Debby EngsTer, and Lori Greaves, Mike WaskowiTz was in charge oT This proiecT. From January Thru early April These sTudenTs devoTed much Time and TalenT To This greaT aTTracTion. This mural depicTs PiTTsburgh: The CiTy oT Big Business and AchievemenTs. This proiecT also shows dedicaTion To The CiTy oT Champi- ons. The enTire mural illusTraTes The beauTy oT PiTTsburgh's Golden Triangle. ARTISTS IBoTTom RighT PicTurel L-R: D. Kanforczyk, E. RusTeikas. J. Vehec, D, EngsTer, M. WaskowiTz, B. Cor- bin, L. Pierce, L. Greaves,

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