Tokay High School - Tokay Yearbook (Lodi, CA)

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I I W it f wa-N' .,, ,, Do you have a job? UBS l l U no 123 177 lcl llll Booming sounds of music were heard everywhere in parking lots, through headphones and in cars. The original sounds of rock were changed in a wide sweep through compact disc players. These minia- ture record players held all the popular sounds ranging from young Tiffany to UZ. Music was a relaxation course for most students as the stress of high school became harder to cope with. Walkmans were seen on heads as students walked from class to class and some dared to wear them in class. 510-20 KW 520 30 f r X X l 2340 S30-50 T xl S550 up 67 l 49 HOD? How much money a month do you spend eating out? What do you do when you go out? l. Movies 2. Dinner 3. Party 4. Shop 5. Cruise Highlights 179

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l ll Il l l lil 7 Walking up to the front door, it opens, and it slams behind Tina Teenager. With a practiced throw, her books hit the kitchen table and her jacket lands perfectly on the hook. Heading straight to the fridge, yanking open the door, grabbing a coke and some cold chicken, Tina heads her tired body toward the couch, and on the way, she grabs the remote control to the television. Immediately when her body hits the cushions of the couch, relaxation sets in. First her head slowly sets deeper in the pillow, and she feels every tense muscle find its rightful position in the curvatures of the couch. A quick nap follows, but then the homework has to start. Relaxing after a long-hard day at school is a necessity for every student. Yah. Ready. They'll be here in five minutes. Hair's done, clothes are perfect, one last look in the mirror. Argh! lt's all wrong! Can't be seen dead in this. Hairstyle is nerdy. Clothes are gross. Time is short, but no. Start over. Open the closet, grab something else, anything else, there's nothing else. Despair. Wherever shall one go? Whatever shall one do? Oo to Tara. No, can't. The Yankees will burn down the house first. Where's that comb? Where's that brush? Where's the hairspray? Ding dong. They're here. Poltergeist? No, the date of the century. Look worse. Ootta go. lVlake them wait, it's all wrong. lt's too wrong. Mom, tell them the yankees have attacked and Scarlett can't go out tonight. Argh. Despair. Frustration. 8 To do it or not to do it, that is the question. Sorry Shakespeare, Mork and lVlindy's on-this is the good one where lVlork proposes to lVlindy. What's for dinner? Oh, got to eat, sorry Shakespeare, maybe later. 8 o'clock! Sorry William, lVlacOyver is on. Yawn, fatigue, sleep, no time for Shakespeare. The shortest point between the math book and the refrigerator is a straight line. lce cream! lVlmmmm, sorry geometry, not now. Cookies, cake, pizza-can't mess up that beautiful stiff-bound geometry book. Oh so sick, can't concentrate on equations. lt's the proof ofthe. . . pudding! lVlmmmm, sorry geometry, much much too full now to concentrate. Where'd all the time go? There's just too much homework and not enough time to do it in. The teachers are so demanding, it's incredible. What do they take teens for anyway? Where oh where has everything gone? Where oh where can it be? The pile grows up as more stuff gets gone, where oh where can it be? Where's the left shoe? The right one is here where can the left one be? Dig, dig, dig. Orab, grab, grab. Pull, wow haven't seen this paper in ages. Oh no, it was worth 100 points too. Sheesh. Clean up that mess. Where is the bed any way? Rats could live in there! What's that smell? Didn't know that sweater still existed. Yuck, stale socks. Papers, papers, pile-up, clutter grows and grows. This must be how mountains are created. The creator of the universe must have been quite a slob, worse though, some mountains erupt.

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1 i i l l lll l l lllll ll l From the remains of the lran-Contra hearings to the battles of election year campaigning, many Americans heard and would remember the year filled with political controversy and scandal. The nation's attention was captured in July when Lt. Colonel Oliver North took the stand in the lran-Contra hearings on Capitol Hill. Although Lt. Col. North related a story of repeated lies and a White House plan to deceive Congress, he came out of it all almost a national hero. Ollie T-shirts, bumper stickers, sandwiches, and dolls hit the streets as Lt. Col. North admitted that he had been named to be the fall-guy to receive the blame if the secret Con- tra-aid program and the profits from the Iran arms sales ever became a scandal. July also brought an opening in the Supreme Court after Associate Justice Lewis Powell stepped down, sparking the next great contro- versy of the year. Rea- gan's first nominee for the position, Judge Robert H. Bork was neatly rejected by the Senate in a 58-42 vote, after months of debate and campaigning both for and against Judge Bork. He was defeated by both his own controversial record and the tactics of his foes, who claimed Judge Bork would vote to overturn the court's approval of abortion rights and that he would cause loss of black support for southern senators. After Bork's rejection, Reagan nominated Anthony Nl. Kennedy, a federal appeals court judge from California who was approved by the Senate in February. Sports headed the news in October as World Series speculation was narrowed down and the players of the National Footbal League went on strike. The issue was free agency, the opportunity to leave one club and play for another, but the owners thought that free agency would produce wild bidding wars for players and result in great salary increases. The players believed that if the owners could relocate franchises, they should have the same freedom of movement. As the negotiations raged and stalled, the game went on in the form of scab ball, where strikebreakers, most not up to NFL standards, played in place of the strikers. The strike ended at the end of October without a contract when the union filed an anti-trust suit against the league. After a slow start in the playoffs, the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the San Francisco Giants to face the Minnesota Twins in the World Ser- ies. The Twins stunned the Detroit Tigers in American League play- offs, before going on to a 4-3 game victory over the Cardinals in the seventh game 7 of the Series. November brought new problems, with the col- lapse of the stock market, which fell even further, relatively, than the prices in the crash of 1929. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 13 percent of its value and closed nearly 800 points below the heights of August. Despite the magnitude of the fall, which was followed closely by another drop, polls showed that Americans were only vaguely concerned and even economists did not expect another Great Depression, although they believed the fall was a sign of a weak world economy. World spirits were raised in December by the