Flower - Red Rose

Class Colors - "Sunrise Colors"

Class Size - 488

Motto - "To accomplish great things we must not only act,  but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." - Anonymous

ECONOMICS

• US GDP (1998 dollars):   $2,291.40 billion
• Federal spending:   $458.75 billion
• Federal debt:   $776.6 billion
• Median Household Income (current dollars):  $15,064
• Consumer Price Index:   65.2
• Unemployment:   6.1%
• Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.13 ($0.15 as of 5/29/78)
  

WORLD NEWS

• Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian D. Smith and three black leaders agree on transfer to black majority rule (Feb. 15).
• US Senate approves Panama Canal neutrality treaty (March 16); votes treaty to turn canal over to Panama by year 2000 (April 18).
• Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro kidnapped by left wing terrorists, who kill five bodyguards (March 16); he is found slain (May 9).
• Pope Paul VI , dead at 80, mourned (Aug. 6); new Pope, John Paul I, 65, dies unexpectedly after 34 days in office (Sept. 28); succeeded by Karol Cardinal Wojtyla of Poland as John Paul II (Oct. 16).
• "Framework for Peace" in Middle East signed by Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin after 13-day conference at Camp David led by President Jimmy Carter (Sept. 17).
• Jim Jones's followers commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana (Nov. 18).

US EVENTS

• President Carter chooses Federal Appeals Court Judge William H. Webster as F.B.I. director (Jan. 19).
• US Supreme Court in Bakke case, bars quota systems in college admissions but affirms constitutionality of programs giving advantage to minorities (June 28).
  

SPORTS

• The Tigers, of West Des Moines Valley Highschool upset the Dowling Maroons (17 - 8)

• Superbowl - Dallas d. Denver (27-10)

• World Series - NY Yankees d. LA Dodgers (4-2)

• NBA Championship - Washington Bullets d. Seattle (4-3)

• Stanley Cup - Montreal d. Boston (4-2)

• Wimbledon -

Women: Martina Navratilova d. C. Evert (2-6 6-4 7-5)
Men: Bjorn Borg d. J. Connors (6-2 6-2 6-3)

• Kentucky Derby Champion - Affirmed

• NCAA Basketball Championship - Kentucky d. Duke (94-88)

• NCAA Football Champions - Alabama (AP, FW, NFF) (11-1-0) & USC (UPI) (12-1-0)

• World Cup - Argentina d. Holland (3-1)

EVENTS

• Sony introduces the Walkman, the first portable stereo.

MOVIES

• The Deer Hunter, Midnight Express, Heaven Can Wait, Coming Home

BOOKS

• Maya Angelou, And Still I Rise
• John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever
• Barry Hannah, Airships
• John Irving, The World According to Garp
• Peter Mathiessen, The Snow Leopard
• Richard Nixon, The Memoirs of Richard Nixon
• Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
• Herman Wouk, War and Remembrance

SCIENCE

• Three Albuquerque, NM, men, Ben Abruzzo, Larry Newman, and Maxie Anderson, make the first successful transatlantic balloon flight in the helium-filled Double Eagle II. Background: Famous Firsts in Aviation
• Balloon anigoplasty is developed to treat coronary artery disease. Background: Health & Nutrition
• Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, is born at Oldham Hostpital in London. Background: reproduction
• Recombinant DNA techniques are used to produce human insulin. Background: genetic engineering
• A fusion reaction in a reactor at Princeton reaches 60 million degrees Fahrenheit for 1/20 of a second. Background: nuclear energy

DEATHS

• Hubert Humphrey
• Anastus Mikoyan
• Norman Rockwell