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NINETEEN
NINETY
WELCOMEto
at
MEADSMILL
GOOD FRIENDS
ARE LIKE
FORTUNE COOKIES
IT’S WHA T’S INSIDE
THAT COUNTS!!
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DON’T WAIT FOR YOUR SHIP TO COME IN. SWIM OUT TO IT.
The fortune cookie says ....
1996 was a memorable year at Meads Mill Middle School.
Table of ContentsEighth grade..................... 2Eighth grade staff...........13Seventh grade..................14Seventh grade staff........25Custodial and
Lunchroom staff.........25Sixth grade.......................26Sixth grade staff............. 37Administration and
Support staff.............. 37Elective staff....................38Activities...........................39Sports .................... 54World Beat.......................61
OH, HORSEFEATHERS! We had to say goodbye to Mr. Harrison.
The New Kids on the Block ....Don Rosebach, Marisa Brady, Laura Stafford, Dan Maynard, Christina Andres.
• <ADAM BALDWIN
SUMMER ANDERSONKRISTEN ABBO
LAUREN ASCIONE
CHRIS BALOW
ANDREW BAZINI
JENNY BOURQUE
ANGIE BANKS
JOSH BENCH
BRIAN BOYES
MIKE BARA
BRAD BOLYARD
LAURA BRONSON
LORIANNE BLAIR
BETH BRANNAN
MICHAEL ADAMISIN
JOHN BADEEN
JOY BANKS
BRANDON BETHELL
GARY BOYK
LIZ ABOUD
ARIA ASH AMAN BAGGA
ERIK ANDERSON
JOSH BART
ANDREW BUDA GARY BURTON DAN BUSCH MATT BYTNAR JOSH CALDWELL
CATHY CARWAN JENNY CAVERLY
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DOUG CHENOWETH NANCY CHESS
DEREK CHESTER ALEXANDRACHRISTOPOULOS
JIM CLARKSON ERIC CONNELL JENNIE COTTERILL
RYAN DEMERS ALEX DENSKI LINDSAY DIXON
CHARLIE DECOSTER
STEVE DOUGHERTY
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GREG COURTNEY CAROLINE COZZA TRACEY CRAWFORD BRANDON DAVIS
ANDRY DOREN
HEATHER GILLESPII
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KATIE DOYLE
BETH GILLIS MATT GLOGOWSKI
CHRISTIAN DUGGAN
CHRIS FRENTZOS
RENU GOYAL
MAKI EGUCHI
ANDY GANFIELDRYAN FALOR BRANDON FERRIMAN
NICOLE DROUILLARD
RICKY GROFF JENNY GUERIN BECKY GUZNACK
DAVID EMMONS
T.J. GRECH JENNIFER GREGOR
AMANDA HALASH
EMILY HANSEN
MATT HARE
PATRICIA HERNDON
JEANETTE HOEFER
JAMES HERREN
ERIC HOLLIDAY
YOKO HIROSE
LAUREN IMSLAND
MIKE HEYER
CHAD HUDSON
JOE HILLEBRAND
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AMY HUGUELET
MIKE HARRISON
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JANEL HASSE MEREDITH HASSE DANA HEDKE
RYAN KANDAHVALERIAN JONE
THERESA KING
m
SHOHEI KIODE
LAUREN KOZAK LAURA KOZUE
MR. MAIL MAN (alias Pete!)JIM? IS THAT YOU?!
KYLE JENNEY
SARA KAYE
DOUG KONST RACHAEL KOVACS
SHALENE JHA
LISA KELLY
JENELLE JOLLEY
MIKE KENNEDY
DAVID KOVALIK
KRISTEN KREMER
LARS KVALVAAG
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CASSIE LONG
ANDYMEDONIS
ANAMAGAR
JESSIE MILLS
JACKIE MAGNUSON
JEFF MINDEN
ANGIE MATTHEWS
JOHN MISSIG
DAN MAYNARD
MIKE MODLIN
KYLE MORTON
ERIC NADEAU
LAYTON MORRIS
STEPHANIE MYERS
BRENT MOSSER
ANDREW NUDI
KRISTIN MUIR
STAFANIE NURMI
JEANNE MYERS
CASSIE PALUSKAS
CLINT LINDROTH
A GOOD CONSCIENCE
IS A SOFT PILLOW.
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MILOSH PETROVICH SCOTT PIGGOTT JESSICA POOLE BRANDON PORTER
JESSICA REECE JAIME REICHARD JOHN REKOUMISPETE REARDON
JAMES PRINCE
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JON RADON
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KEVIN ROBY JENNIFER ROHLFS KEITH ROSHANGAR SEAN ROSSITERLARA LEA RONEY
LAUREL RUPLEY MICHELLE RUSSELL
STEVE SANTER
OSMAN SIDDIQUE LINDSAY SIMON
LEAH SIMS PAULA SLEZAK
JASON SANTEIU
ANTHONYSALVATORE
MATT SHELLEY
“ THE LINE UP!”
STEPHANIE SABO JACKIE SALLIOTTE
KRISTIASCHOENDORF NICK SELUK
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NICOLE SPRADER KATIE STADTMILLER NICHOLAS STRAKA CAROLINE STREPPA KEVIN STUART
ALLISON SWORDLARAE SUNDBERG
JUSTIN TAI
AARON SURMA
AMY TARTAGLIA
ERIC SUTTON
KYLE TINKER
MATT SZEWCZYK
BRYAN VERES JARED VICTOR VASILE VINCENT KEN WALLROBBY TURNER
KELLY WALLACE JULIE WALTERS JACK WANG ANDREA WEBER JASON WEISS
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#JEFF WETZEL DAVID WHITBECK SCOTT WHITBECK CHERYL WILBER AUBRIE WILSON
NATALIEWOODERSON BETSY WOODRICHBRIAN WILSON AMANDA YARIS STEPHEN YUTZY
MR. MCDONALD
MR. HARRISON
MRS. COTTER MR. CRACRAFT!? MRS. PARKER
MR. FALETTI MRS. ZIEGLERMRS. WALRO
MR. SCHWARTZ MRS. MROZ
MRS. WILLOUGHBY
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CLASS OF 2001 ...
JESSICA ANCHOR
KATIE ANDARY
CARLTON ANDERSON
KEEPING THE AFRICAN BEAT
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MONICA ANDERSON MICHAEL ANSARA CINDY ANTIEAU RENEE ASCIONE BRIAN ASHBY
KATE ATTY CHRIS AVERSA AMY BAJA BOB BAKER JASON BALLOU
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... WILL ENJOY LIFE
NEED SOME HELP, DAVE??
• • • • • • • • • • • •
ERIN BANNER
ELENA BAZINI
SARAH BENNETT KRIS BETKER ERIC BITELLTIFFANY
BLACKFORD SARAH BOLL
KATIE BRAINE BRYCE BRATTINA NICHOLAS BRAZEN JENNIFER SEAN BRENNANBRENNAN
ALEX BARBEIRI
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EMILY BREWINGTON
WHITNEYCASTERLINE
LINDSAYCRAMMOND
JOE EVANS
JOHN CAMPION
BRANDON CAVERLY
TOM CARR
KATIE CHENOWETH
ROBERT CARTER
JEREMY COOPERDANIELLECHARBONEAU
EMILY CARBOTT
RICK CROSSMAN JASON D’ANNA RYAN DACE
sINICK DALSASSO
KYLE DELANEY MICHELLE DELAVY BEVIN DENSKI MIKE EMMONS
BEN FLOOD AMANDA FOGLIATTI CARRIE FREDERICKMELISSA FERMANIS
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COLIN GADDIS CHRIS GERLICA ANNIE GIAMMARCO CHAZ GIAMMONA. DOUG GIBBONS
MEGAN GILSHIRE DANIEL GLADDEN DAVID GLADDEN AARON GOLM MERRICK GOODMAN
ANDREW GRAFF DAVID GREGOR LINDSAY GRIFFIN NATHAN GUDRITZ KEVIN HAGEDORN
MIKE HARRINGTON
JEREMY HERNDON
ERIN HARVEY
SARAH HESSE
JOSH HAMLIN AMBER HARE TIFFANY HARE
CHRISTINEHAVERKATE
JACOB HELWIG CHRISY HENSON
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I
MICHAEL HIEMSTRA
EMILY HINES
JUSTIN HOROWITZ
B.J. INGALLS
TOMMY HUGHES
NICK JONES
JOHN HUTCHISON
ANDREW JUCO
JESSICA HRIVNAK
BEN JACOBS
JENNIFER HUDOLIN
KELSEY JENNEY
CELESTE KARCH ALEXANDRA ERIN KAYE RYAN KELLY MARY ALICE KHEIRKATONA
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KRISTEN KIRK
MARIA LEBEAU
KRISTIN KOLASA
JOE LAMANNA
BRIAN LEE
BRYAN KONTRY
BRANDONLANGSTON
JOANNA LEE
JOLENE KOHL
CHRIS LEBEIS
COURTNEY KREMER
STEPHEN LONGAN
JOHN LAZUR
EMILY KRYWKO MATT KURILUK
DANIELLELONGEWAY
MICHELLELONGEWAY
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MATT LOPICCOLO KRISTA LUHTANEN KYLE MACFARLANE KEN MACKINNON JENNIFERMAGLIOCCO
MICHELLE MAN ARINA GREGORY MANORE JENNA MARQUART BRYAN MARRADAVID MALDONADO
qTFPHANIEGARRETT MARSHALL HILLARY MCCRUMB PAUL MCKINNON MCNEILANCE DENNIS MCVITTIE
MEGAN MEAKIN BRANDON MERTA JUSTIN MESSER MIKE MILLER PAM MOURADIAN
DAVID MURPHY SEAN NAPPO CHAD NEUMANN KATIE O’CONNELLHOAN NGUYEN
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MELISSA OAKESK A T H T F F N
OCHMANSKI AMANDA OSTROWSKI DON PATRICK
HE WHOPRIZESLITTLETHINGS ISWORTHYOF GREATONES.
DONNELL QUAKER ANGELA QUICK
MIKE ROBY JOE ROHRHOFF HAYLEE ROSE MELANIE RUDD ROBBY RYAN
ROBYN RYAN NICOLE SAGE BILLY SALLIOTTE MEGAN SAMHAT CHRISTINA SAMMUT
HEATHER PROPERKARA PIEKARSKI
A
AARON REDDENtHRIS PROVENCAL ALISON RICHARDS
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SARAH SEBASTIAN
JESSICA SHERIFF
SARA SARKISIAN SCOTT SCHANNE
SARAH SCOBIE
BETSY SHUTT
H *4 *
ZUBAIR SARMAST
LIZ SCHWARTZ
ANDREW SEAL SCOTT SHEPARD LAURA SHERBET
POWEN SHIAH
h
BETH SHIELDS
%
ADAM SINKUS CHRIS SMITH
LAUREN SCHLEH
BRIAN SCOTT
RYAN SMITH STEVE STALEY
EMILY STEVENSON JUSTIN SWALBERG
ANN TISHKOWSKI MICHELLE TOMES JOHN TOTH DAVE TOVEY
STEFANIEVANGORDER ROBERT VANSLYKE
je ssic a w a l k e r PHILLIP WALL
JENNIFER TUCKER
TEDDY WALTERS
NATASHA SWITALSKI
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TREVOR WILLIAMS ROW 1: MRS. WOODRICH, MRS. BAIRD, MRS. KLOKKENGA, KATE ATTY. ROW 2: MR. DEMSKI, MRS. IRISH, COURTNEY KREMER, BRITNEY WITTEBORT.
MRS. STOVER MRS. HICKS
“HAVING A TEAM IS ALMOST LIKE HAVING A FAMILY; IT IS A GREAT WAY TO GET PEOPLE TO COME TOGETHER AND HELP ONE ANOTHER.”EMILY BREWINGTON
A BIG THANKS TO OUR LUNCH
LADIES:MRS. SCHRONCE
MRS. FIDDES MRS. SCHLOTTERER
MRS. CORONER
MARY BETH ZUMBRUNNEN
UNQUOTE
99 QUOTE
KYLE WARGO CARLA WATSON JENNY WEBER ANDY WELLS ARON WHITE MR. WICKENS MR. HANNEWALD
THE DAY IS LOST ON WHICH ONE HAS NOT LAUGHED.
ROW 1: MARY MATOSSIAN, MEGAN PRESTON, YAEL VAZQUEZ. ROW 2: SARAH JONES, MIKE STEWART, MILAN MINAREK, MIKE MUELLER.
AND TO OUR CUSTODIANS:
MRS. REGENTIK MRS. ROGMAN MRS. GRAVITT
MR. WATERMAN MR. SIETING
MISSY WINN
CHRISTINE WICKE KEVIN WILBER KYLE WILLIAMS
BRITNEYWITTEBORT
JACKIE XUEREB ANDREW ZECCHINI
THE NEW FACES ...
DAN WHITE
CLASS OF 20
MEREDITHADAMISIN
CHRISTOPHERALANDT
MICHELLE ALDER YUKO ARAKI
KATHRYN BALDWIN KATIE BANKS CAITLIN BARRY
BENJAMIN ABBOTT
SERGIO ACOSTA
“
RACHEL ADAMISIN
CLAIRE BACIGAL
TIMOTHY ADDISON
JOHNATHON BAKER
HAS A GOOD START
e r ic b l o t k a m p
THE NEW FACES
ROW 1: MAREK MINAREK, STEVE NELSON, HEIDI KRIEGER, SARAH LOISELLE. ROW 2: GORDAN SMITH, DAVID STEWART, KRISTEN ROBERTS. NOT PICTURED: JACOB STAFFORD.
CHELSEA BAYLY SOCHACKI
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DANICA BELLON JIM BESON LAUREN BITELL KIM BLACKFORD
JESSICA BOLOVEN VALERIE BOSTWICK BRENDEN BOYES ALICIA BRACKEL
BRITTANY BARTELO
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BROOKE BRANDL
f y
KIEL CALDWELL
JACKIE DAIGNAULT
KAJAL DESAI
GARRETT BROWNE
TIM CALKINS
KEVIN CONN
CHRISTINADEVINCENT
CARLIE BUCCIERE
MONICA CATANACH
SAMANTHA COOKE
ADAM DILLEY
BRIANNA BUCKLEY
CHRISTENCHANDLER
JESSICA DECHAPE
I
ROBERT DIXON
JESSICA CADREAU
JENNIFER CHIROYAN
KELLY COUGHLIN
JOSEPH DODDS
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MICHAEL DONOVAN
CASSANDRA EAREL
JASON ENGELLAND
— •; m
REBECCA FRIMENKO
CASEYDRESSELHOUSE
ANNA GRINVALDS
STEVEN DOINIDIS
BETH DUEY
REBECCA ELEY
DIANA FRENTZOS
STEPHANIE GRECH AMANDA GRIMM
KIMBERLY EBELING
CHERYL GAITLEY
MATTHEW FOSTERMATTHEW FLOYD
JASON GRIMM
GRAHAMDRESSELHOUSE
RUMIEGUCHI
SAMANTHADROUILLARD
KRISTIN FREEMAN
DAVID GIAN
MELISSA EIBEN
SCOTT GUAJARDO
VICTORIA GUZNACK
OUCH!!
CODY HEDQUIST
POO JA GULATI
CAITLIN HANSEN
RACHEL HELWIG
CAROLYN HARRISON
SARAH HELWIG
MATT HANNAH JENNIFER HATZIS
TIM HILLEBRAND
TONYHOBLACK
JENNY HOUSLANDER
KATIE HALLER
JAMES HAY
RYAN HITTE
MIKE HOUGH
MEGANHOUSLANDER
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SHOBITAJAGANNATHAN CYMBRE JASKOT BRANDON JOHNSON HELEN JOHNSONMICHAEL HUNT
JENNIFER JONES
APOORVA KELKAR
•Vi i l Ll i m . . i t
ALAN KAHLER KRISTINA KALSO JEREMY KANDAH TARA KAREBIAN
GARRETT KNACK
LINDSAY KNACK THOMAS KNAPP ASHLEY KNICELEY YUHEI KOIDE ALLISON KOZAK
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JON-PAUL MISIULIS JEFF MNICH EMILY MONFORTON LINDSAY MOORE LIZMORANTE
MICHAEL LANOYE
THOMAS LLEWLLYN
CYNTHIA MARTINEZ
MEGANMECKSTROTH
ADAM LAWRENCE
ETHAN LUBE
MARKLANE
ESTHER LING
WILLIAM LUKER
J
STEVEN MCCRUMB
JULIA MATUSZ
ALE JANDRA MEDINA
ANDREA LEDBETTER DIANE LEE
MATTHEW S. MCCLISH
JEFFERY MIHALIK
PHILLIP MAZA
KRISTIN NAIGUS
NATALIE PARKS
DAVID PETERSON
KRISTEN ROBERTS
THE COOKS AT WORK
NICHOLAS MOROZ
ANDREW PETERSON
TOM REID
BLAKE ROBERTSON SHAWNA ROBY
EMILY OTT SCOTT PATERSON
LEE PIEKARSKI
DANIEL NURMI
JOHN PETLICKE LIZ PIET
NICOLE OSHANSKI
DANIELLE PELOSO
DAVID ROHLFS JOSHUA RUNNER
DAN SHUTT KAREN SIMON CANDICE SIMONS
JOSHUA SMITH STEVEN SMITH BRYAN SOMERVILLE
COLLEEN RUPRECHT
PHILLIP SANTER RAVINDRA SARANANTHONY SAMOTIS
DESIREE SAREMI
JOHN SANNAR
LINDSAYSCHEERHORN
ERIC SCHULTZ
JOSEPH RYZYI
JOSHUA SPOONER ELIZABETHSTEPHENSON
JOSEPH SANTEIU
NICOLE SALEM
STEPHEN SELINSKY
CHRISTINA SIMPSON
MELISSA SHERMAN
SCOTT SKRABUT
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JENNIFER STONE k a t h e k u n eSULLIVAN JANINE SURMA
SUZANNE TAEPKE
^ ■ ■ 1 '-.I\ i i * i f R-Ay ,D-. 1
ELIZABETH THOMAS LAURA TOKIE
JOSEPH TURNER JESSICA VARTANIAN
STACEY SWANCUTT RYAN SZEWCZYK
CHRISTOFFERTRYDESTAM
PHIL VLISIDES SHAUNU WAINEO
KIM VERES
MARTA WALASEK SARAH WALKER
THE JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES STARTS WITH A SINGLE STEP.
TIMOTHY WALTER
BRIAN WEBBER
SCOTT WETZEL
JUSTIN WRIGHT ADAM ZIMMERMAN
JESSICA WEBBBRYAN WASER JODY WASHINGTON
STEPHEN WEGENER LAUREN WEST
JASON WILCHOWSKI
KRISTY WARD
KENJI WEBER
LYNDSAY WHEELER ALEX WILLIAMS
TOMMY WESTFALL
JOEY WILSON
\
MRS. SIMMS MR. LENZ MR. KRABILL MR. BIRD MRS. KEELER
.YIELD,
SPEEDLIMIT
MRS. STUTTERHEIM MRS. NEDAM
MR. LONGRIDGE MRS. MEYER
MRS. KAPLANSKY MRS. KRAWIEC MRS. LENZ MR. STOVER MRS. OSBORNE
MRS. DUNKERLEY MRS. PERNIA MRS. BOSANKO MRS. COMMON
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ELECTIVESMR. SUTHERLAND MRS. MACDONALD
MRS. MURRAY
■ S O M E T H I N G ■
■ E V E R Y O N E !MRS.
MONTMORENCY
MS. GABLER
THE GLORY IS NOT IN NEVER FAILING, BUT IN RISING EVERY TIME YOU FAIL.
MRS. WALTERSHIELD
MR. CROSSMAN MS. MURRAYMRS. RAY-HEPP
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ROW 1: T. WESTFALL, M. BARA, M. HOUSLANDER, L. KOZUB, J. HOUSLANDER, K. ANDARY, E. HANSEN, J- LEE. ROW 2: H. JOHNSON, N. WOODERSON, K. DOYLE, J. MYERS, G. KNACK, R. ADAMISIN. ROW 3: G. MAN- ORE, P. SHIAH, MR. WICKENS, M. ADAMISIN.
ROW 1: B. BOYES, L. KOZUB, K. ATTY, J. TRACZ. ROW 2: L. MORANTE, D. GIAN, S. SCRABOT, T. CALKINS, B WEBER, S. WEGENER, A. NUDI, J. CARTER, M. GILSHIRE. ROW 3: D. FRENTZOS, C. KLOSS, C. GERLICA, B LANGSTON, N. GUDRITZ, C. ANDERSON, J. HOROWITZ, T. REID, J. JUCO, S. DOINOIDIS. ROW 4: A. HARE, R. ELEY, G. BURTON, S. WHITBECK, J. COTTERILL, T. GRECH, B. BARTELO, A. HUGUELET, S. KAYE, K. DOYLE, N. SWITALSKI. ROW 5: A. GIAMMARCO, L. PHILLIPS, E. OTT, H. GILLESPIE, J. ANCHOR, K. WILBER, N. SELUK M. LOPICCOLO, A. SURMA, C. LEBEIS, B. GILLIS.
ROW 1: A. NUDI, P. WALL, J. SANNAR, M. KURILUK, S. YUTZY, E. NADEAU, C. CARWAN, MRS. KRAWIEC. ROW 2: J. HELWIG, J. BADEEN, K. TINKER, R. FALOR, M. ADAMISIN, B. JACOBS, A. SURMA, P. SHIAH, D. CHENOWITH.
ROW 1: K FREEMAN, T. CALKINS, R. FRIMENKO, E. MONFORTON, S. SELINSKY, A. GRIMM, A. LAWRENCE. ROW 2: J- PETLICKE, N. MOROZ, T. KIRKMAN, B. DUEY, H. JOHNSON, M. CATANACH, C. GAITLEY, J. SANNAR, MRS. KRAWIEC.
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ROW 1: J. BESON, T. CALKINS, R. FREIMENKO, T. WESTFALL, S. SELINSKI, B. ROBERTSON, S. SARKISIAN, N. GUDRITZ. ROW 2: J. MARQUART, J. SANNAR, J. LEE, S. ANDERSON, S. NURMI, K. SCHOEN- DORF, P. SHIAH, P. MCKINNON, J. MESSER, A. ASH, N. SPRADER. COACH, MR. HALL.
ROW 1: S. ROSSITER, E. CONNELL, H. GILLESPIE. ROW 2: S. YUTZY, K. LAST, V. JONE, A. TRAPNELL, N. CHESS. ROW 3: J. SALLIOTTE, J. CAVERLY, C. BALOW, K. TINKER, M. ADAMISIN, M. KENNEDY, N. SELUK, C. FRENTZOS, S. SANTER.
MATHMAKES
WINNERS!
MICHIGAN MATH LEAGUE WINNERS (Seventh Grade) ROW 1: M. HEIMSTRA, J. ROHRHOFF, J. MESSER, P. SHIAH. ROW 2; T. WILLIAMS, C. SAMMUT, C. WATSON, S. SARKISIAN.
MICHIGAN MATH LEAGUE WINNERS (Eighth Grade) ROW 1: A. HALASH, A. ASH. ROW 2: K. TINKER, M. HARE, N. SELUK.
DETROIT COUNTRY MATH COMPETITION ROW 1: S. SARKISIAN, M. HARE, P. SHIAH. NOT PICTURED: R. DEMERS.
Ma t h c o u n t s c o m p e t it io n r o w l a . a s h , k . t i n k e r , p . s h ia h , s . Ko id e .
AMERICAN JUNIOR HIGH MATH COMPETITION AMANDA HALASH (2ND), POWEN SHIAH. NOT PICTURED: JUSTIN HOROWITZ (1ST) RYAN DEMERS (3RD).
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PTSA Writing Awards
Shalen Jha Jenny Cotterill
Mike Hutchinson Sarah Bennett
Liz Thomas
American and Me Eric Nadeau
Joe Tracz Heather Gillespie
ENGLISH
Reading to the little ones.
Emily Stevenson spells down!!Mrs. Jerome continues to help out.
ANGIE BANKS IS HONORED.
High School Writer - Joe Tracz
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STAGE CREWS
ROW 1: T. LONDOS, K. KIRK, A. FOGLIATTI, A. WHITE, M. GILSHIRE, K. OCHMANSKI, N. PARKS, A. HARE. ROW 2: M. HOUSLANDER, J. HOUSLANDER, K. ANDARY, C. CHANDLER, C. SIMONS, L. CRAMMOND, S. BENNETT, C. CARWAN, J. TUCKER, MISS GABLER.
ROW 1: D. PELOSO, J. BECHTEL, M. EIBEN, E. LING, C. JASKOT, J. CHIROYAN, C. GAITLEY, M. ADLER, K. GULIAN. ROW 2: P. SHIAH, K. FREEMAN, L. WHEELER, C. CHOJNOWSKI, D. BELLON, J. BARTEL, J. HATZI, S. TAEPKE, C. KLOSS, E. OTT. ROW 3: C. BALDWIN, C. RUPRECHT, R. TRACZ, E. STEVENSON, A. KOZAK, B. BAR- TELO, A. MEDIA, L. BITTEL, J. WALKER, K. SIMON.
A.M.
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ROW 1: B. PORTER, M. KENNEDY, J. WETZEL, V. JONE, S. YUTZY, L. RONEY, N. SPRADER, J. COTTERILL, S NURMI, C. WILBER, A. LEBEAU, D. CHENOWETH. ROW 2: A. NUDI, Y. HIROSE, E. HANSEN, A. HALASH, C. LONGC. HUDSON, L. KVALVAAG, K. LAST, S. JHA. OW 3: MRS. RAY-HEPP, D. HEDKE, A. MAGAR, A. ASH, J. WALTERS, B WOODRICH, L. BLAIR, J. ROHLFS, J. REECE, L. KOZAK, C. COZZA, R. GOYAL, D. WHITBECK, A. CHRISTOPOULOS A. WEBER, MS. MINCH. ROW 4: B. FERRIMAN, J. MYERS, J. HOEFER, N. LAFAYETTE, L. BRONSON, C. CARWAN, S ANDERSON, T. KING, R. KOVACS, N. CHESS, A. TRAPNELL, E. CONNELL, B. WILSON. ROW 5: S. ROSSITER, L SUNDBERG, E. HOLLIDAY, A. GRECH, K. STADTMILLER, S. SABO, K. WALLACE, H. GILLESPIE, B. PAWLING, B BRANNAN, A. WILSON, C. FRENTZOS, J. CLARKSON, J. CAVERLY. ROW 6: N. SELUK, K. MUIR, L. DIXON, K SCHOENDORF, M. RUSSELL, J. HASSE, E. SUTTON, K. TINKER, J. REKOUMIS, B. DAVIS, M. HASSE, M. ADAMISIN R. FALOR.
ROW 1: J. HUTCHISON, B. CAVERLY, K. OCHMANSKI, L. CRAMMOND, A. HALASH, C. LONG, B. GUZNAK, K. NEGUS. ROW 2: T. CALKINS, M. GILSHIRE, K. KIRK, A. FOGLIATTI, S. SELINSKI, T. WILLIAMS, K. ANDARY, A SINKUS, N. PEARCE. ROW 3: S. SARKISIAN, J. TUCKER, E. BAZINI, N. SWITALSKI, K. PIEKARSKI, C. HAUERKATE. S. BOLL, T. HAKE, K. OELANEY, S. SCOBIE, J. MARQUART, J. LEE. ROW 4: K. CHENOWETH, A. RICHARDS, S- VANGORDER, J. REECE, J. ROHLFS, B. FERRIMAN, D. WHITBECK, S. YUTSY, A. LEBEAU, L. RONEY, B. W0<> DRICH, S. NURMI. ROW 5: N. SPRADER, A. MAGAR, J. COTTERILL, A. ASH, A CHRISTOPOULOS, C. WILBER, » ANDERSON, C. CARWAN, A. TRAPNELL, K. KOLASA, L. KOZAK, K. JENNEY, K. BETKER. ROW 6: R. ASCIONE, J- WALKER, D. CHENOWETH, J. CLARKSON, N. SELUK, P. REARDON, P. SHIAH, K. SCHOENDORF, J. HASSE, M. RUs' SELL, M. HASSE, M. ADAMISIN.
ROW 1: J. CAMPION, A. QUICK, C. KARCH, K. OCHMANSKI, K. ANDARY, A. HARE, S. SARKISIAN, J. MARQUART, E. STEVENSON. ROW 2: D. PATRICK, M. HARRINGTON, M. HIEMSTRA, K. KIRK, A. FOGLIATTI, A. WHITE, C. ANDERSON, T. WILLIAMS, N. GUDRITZ. ROW 3: M. GILISHIRE, E. BAZINI, S. SCOBIE, K. DELANEY, S. MCNEILANCE, L. CRAMMOND, S. BENNETT, J. TUCKER, M. FERMANIS, E. BANNER, J. WALKER. ROW 4: M. ZUMBRUNNEN, K. WIL- [TAMS, J. HERNDON, C. GIAMMONA, L. SCHLEH, A. KATONA, N. SWITALSKI, K. PIEKARSKI, R. ASCIONE, T. JARE ROW 5; K. CHENOWETH, M. RUDD, J. HUDOLIN, B. SHUTT, K. BETKER, G. MARSHALL, J. HELWIG, P. SHlAH, a . RICHARDS
ROW 1: B. MERTA, J. HUTCHISON, A. SINKUS, J. HOROWITZ, L. GRIFFIN, B. DALTON, B. CAVERLY, C. WATSON. ROW 2: B. SHIELDS, J. HRIVNAK, H. PROPER, E. KRYWKO, J. KOHL, K. HAGEDORN, M. TOMES, N. PEARCE, B. SCOTT. ROW 3: J. LEE, B. DENSKI, S. BOLL, S. SEBASTIAN, A. TISHKOWSKI, L. SCHWARTZ, C. HAVERKATE, L. PHILLIPS, K. LUHTANEN, M. ANDERSON, MRS. RAY-HEPP. ROW 4: S. VANGORDER, C. SAMMUT, M. OAKES, M. LEBEAU, K. KOLASA, R. RYAN, D. McVITTIE, S. BRENNAN, J. LAZUR, A. BAJA, R. RYAN. ROW 5: J. WEBER, N. SAGE,
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ROW 1: G. SMITH, J. VARTANIAN, T. CALKINS, T. LONDOS, C. BACIGAL, L. KVALVAAG, K. DESAI, V. GUZNACK, E. MONFORTON. ROW 2: E. STEPHENSON, J. BAKER, C. KLOSS, C. BUCCIERE, M. EIBEN, C. DEVINCENT, K. SULLIVAN, M. HOUSLANDER, J. HOUSLANDER, B. PEARCE. ROW 3: C. BAYLY, K. BANKS, L. PIET, S. DROUILLARD, M. CATANACH, M. ADAMISIN, C. MARTINEZ, J. SURMA, K. NAIGUS, S. HELWIG, S. SELINSKY, MS. MINCH.
ROW 1: A. LEDBETTER, T. WESTFALL, J. MISIULIS, A. PETERSON, J. MNICH, J. MIHALIK, D. NURMI, M. HANNAH,D. LOVERIDGE. ROW 2: L. KOZUB, S. SKRABUT, S. SWANCUTT, C. CHOJNOWSKI, A. KELKAR, J. BESON, R. FRI- MENKO M. SHERMAN, D. FRENTZOS. ROW 3: P. GULATI, A. KNICELEY, D. PETERSON, P. VLISIDES, T. ADDISON, C. HANSON, J. WRIGHT, C. CHANDLER, D. PELOSO, J. DECHAPE, M. HUNT, K. GALE. ROW 4: D. SHUTT, A. ZOBL, M FLOYD J PETLICKE, S. GUAJARDO, T. KIRKMAN, J. WEBB, D. ROHLFS, A. WILLIAMS, K. CALDWELL, B. ABBOTT. ROW 5: V. BOSTWICK, S. DOINIDIS, J. RYZYI, C. HEDQUIST, R. ELEY, L. WEST, L. BITEL, K. KALSO, B. DUEY, P. MAZA, A. KOZAK, R. ADAMISIN, MS. MINCH.
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ROW 1: M. GILSHIRE, M. HIEMSTRA, K. KIRK, S. SARKISIAN, J. KOHL, M. TOMES, B. SCOTT, N. GUDRITZ. ROW 2: C. ANDERSON, A. HARE, K. ANDARY, J. HOROWITZ, A. SINKUS, J. CAMPION, J. HUTCHINSON, S. BOLL, J. LEE, MRS. RAY-HEPP. ROW 3: J. MARQUART, K. CHENOWETH, C. WATSON, M. ANDERSON, E. BAZINI, J. TUCKER, S. SCOBIE, K. DELANEY, C. SAMMUT, A. RICHARDS, A. KATONA. ROW 4: N. SWITALSKI, K. PIEKAR- SKI. J. WEBER, K. KOLASA, N. SAGE, H. McCRUMB, K. JENNEY, J. BRENNAN, K. BETKER, J. HELWIG, S. HESSE, P. SHIAH.
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ROW 1: COACH WAYNE, M. TOMES, J. KOHL, L. RONEY, S. JHA, J. A. QUICK, S. WHITBECK, J. REECE. ROW 2: K HAGADORN, T. CRAWFORD, K. ANDARY, V. JONES, A. KATONA, D. WHITBECK, J. TRACZ, M. ZUMBRUNNEN, A ASH, N. SPRADER, M. HARRINGTON, COACH DUNN. ROW 3: S. NURMI, K. STUART, G. MYERS, S. ANDERSON, A BANKS, J. SALLIOTTE, S. SABO.
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THE 1996 YEARBOOK STAFF HOPE YOU HAVE ENJOYED THE FRUITS OF THEIR LABORS. THESE STAFFERS HAVE GIVEN UP MANY MORNINGS AND SATURDAYS TO PRESERVE THE MEMORIES OF A WONDERFUL YEAR. SPECIAL THANKS GO TO THIS YEAR’S EDITORS: BETSY WOODRICH, ANA MAGAR, KELSEY JENN E Y , K A T H L E E N O C H M A N S K I , C H E L S E A KLOSS, AND REBECCA FRIMENKO.
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Pope John Paul II visits New Jersey, New York and
Maryland, and addresses the United Nations. He speaks out on social, economic, political and moral themes.
French transportation workers strike against their government throughout the month of
December, shutting down the airlines and the metro system, after France increases the retirement age from 50 to 55 and lengthens the work week from 37 to 39 hours in efforts to cut spending.
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W rap artist Christo creates “Wrapped Reichstag” for
the city of Berlin by covering the former home of the German parliament with one million square feet of silver fabric in June.
In late May, a doctor performs
emergency surgery aboard British
Airways flight 32 using a coat
hanger, a knife and fork, and a
scissors sterilized in brandy to save
a woman whose life is threatened
by a collapsed lung.
Heads of many of the 186 member nations gather in
New York to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the United Nations in October.
Tahitian protests escalate into riots after France
detonates a nuclear test device 750 miles from the South Pacific island. France’s September resumption of tests after a three-year moratorium brings global condemnation.
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Philippe Giraud, Sygm a
Marxist Cuban President Fidel Castro abandons his Havana cigar and military fatigues for a suit and tie on a diplomatic visit to New York in October, where he tries to convince the U.S. to lift its 33-year-old trade embargo on still-communist Cuba.
Shock waves hit the Middle East when Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is shot and killed while leaving a peace rally in Tel Aviv November 4. His murderer, Jewish extremist Yigal Amir, fanatically opposes peace negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization.
In a powerful address to the U.N.’s Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, attended by 30,000 women from 180 countries, U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton declares, “Women’s rights are human rights,” to a desk-thumping, applauding audience.
Fifty years after the end of World War II, Japan remembers those killed by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. A solitary building left standing after the blast, now a memorial called the Atomic Bomb Dome, symbolizes the horrors of war and the price of peace.
Madman Shoko Asahara, leader of the Japanese apocalyptic religious cult, Aum Shinrikyo, is arrested on May 16 and charged with the Tokyo subway nerve-gas attack that left 12 people dead and injured 5,500 more in March.
The first U.S. president to visit Northern Ireland, President Clinton receives a warm Christmas
welcome for his show of support for peace between Irish Protestants and Catholics.A n earthquake kills 51 people
on the resort-studded Pacific coast of Mexico. The quake measures 7.5 on the Richter scale and is felt 330 miles away in Mexico City.
Hurricane Marilyn inflicts millions of dollars of damage in the Virgin Islands in September. Winds
up to 127 miles per hour severely damage half the homes on St. Thomas.
In November, the Republic of Ireland narrowly passes a referendum calling for an end to the country’s 1937 constitutional ban on divorce.
W hile com peting in an international balloon race in Septem ber, two hot air balloonists, one English and one Am erican, are shot down when their balloon floats off course over Belarus. The Belarussian arm y sees the balloon as a security threat and fires w ithout warning. The balloonists fa ll to their death.
More than four years after Desert Storm , Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein remains in power, though two of his sons-in-law defect to Jordan on August 8 and call for Hussein’s overthrow.
Hope blooms for peace in Bosnia when Bosnia’s President Izetbegovic (left) shakes hands with Serbia’s President Milosevic
on the opening day of the November cease-fire talks in Dayton, Ohio. Croatia’s President Tudjman looks on. The ensuing Paris peace agreement of December sends 60,000 NATO peacekeeping troops to the war-torn country.A P/W ide W orld
Great Britain’s Princess Diana shocks Buckingham Palace with a tell-all BBC interview. Defying royal protocol, she discusses her marriage to unfaithful husband, Prince Charles, her struggle with depression and bulimia, and an extramarital affair. The majority of English people express their support and sympathy.
In July, without public explanations, Burma’s military rulers free the country’s most famous political prisoner, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the pro-democracy movement and Nobel peace laureate, after six years of house arrest.
Securities trader Nicholas Leeson is arrested in Germany in March 1995 for fraud, forgery, and breach-of-trust. Leeson racked up a $1.32 billion loss that caused the collapse of Barings PLC, the 233-year-old British bank.
Russian figure skater Sergei Grinkov, 28, collapses and dies from a heart attack during practice with his wife-partner Ekaterina Gordeeva on November 20. The pair won two Olympic gold medals and four world pairs titles.
C uebec, Canada’s largely French- speaking province, defeats an C ctober referendum on Quebec independence by a margin of less than one percent.
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Two-thousand volunteer firefighters battle a raging wildfire in eastern Long Island, New York, for three days in August. The fire, following a 21-day drought, consumes 5,500 acres of pine barrens and damages a dozen homes. There are no injuries or fatalities.
A ir Force Captain Scott O’Grady (right) is rescued
from pursuing Bosnian Serb forces by U.S. Marines on June 8, six days after his plane is shot down over Bosnia. O’Grady survived on insects, plants, and rainwater.
The federal government repeals
the national 55-mile-per-hour
highway speed limit, enacted in
1974 during the oil embargo.
The legislation allows states to set
their own limits. On Montana
highways, speed limits are
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A San Francisco sewer line bursts under pressure
from battering rainstorms, creating a monster sinkhole that swallows a $2-million house in the Sea Cliff district. One-hundred-mile-per-hour winds knock out power to tens of thousands of homes and nearly blow a truck off the Bay Bridge.
Three days of drenching rains in the Pacific Northwest swell rivers to overflowing, caus
ing severe flooding in Washington in December. In the town of Carnation, a pastor conveys a woman to dry land with a wheelbarrow.
A frican-American men from across the country converge
on Washington, D.C., for the Million Man March on October 16. The march, led by Nation-of- Islam minister Louis Farrakhan, promotes African-American unity, dignity, and family values.
Larry Downing, Sygm a
U.S. Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon resigns on September 7, the day after the Senate Ethics Committee voted unanimously to expel him for sexual misconduct, embarrassingly detailed in his diaries, which were made public.
The nation comes to a standstill on October 3 as more than 150 million people watch live TV coverage of the outcome of the nine-month-long trial of the century. After less than four hours of deliberation, the jury finds former football star O.J. Simpson not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman.
Illinois suffers a record heat wave in July, with temperatures as high as 104°. The heat takes the lives of 457 people statewide. At Wrigley Stadium, Jaime Navarro helps faithful Chicago Cubs fans stay cool.
After a year of fame as a conservative revolutionary, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich slumps in popularity, tainted by the government shutdown, his stalled Contract With America, and investigations into his political action committee and his financial affairs.
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Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1969 to 1986, dies in June at age 87. Though appointed by President Richard Nixon, he ordered Nixon to turn over tapes in the Watergate hearings that effectively ended the president’s career.
The Washington Post publishes a manifesto written by the unidentified killer known as “The Unabomber,” at large since 1978 and wanted for 16 mail bombs that have killed 3 and injured 23. FBI agents scrutinize the article for clues to the bomber’s identity.
A Chicago commuter train slams into the back end of a loaded school bus. The accident, allegedly caused by a poorly timed stoplight placed too near the tracks, kills 7 students and injures 28 on October 25.
T"he image of firefighter Chris Fields holding one-year-old Baylee Almon, who later dies,
comes to symbolize the horror of the April 19 bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building that killed 150 adults and 19 children.
Despite A m ericans' doubts and fears, U.S. troops head for Bosnia in December. The20.000 U.S. forces, serving under NATO command beside40 .000 European allies, face the task of keeping peace among the country’s warring Serbs, Croats and Muslims.
The State of South Carolina sentences Susan Smith to life in prison for the drowning murder of her two young sons in 1994.
An anonymous donor sends St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Mem phis $1 m illion in the form of a winning ticket from M cDonald’s November “ M onopoly” sweepstakes gam e.
In the w ake of a growing number of random attacks from assailants with knives and guns, W hite House security is forced to close Pennsylvania Avenue to traffic.
The government shuts down for six days in November after the President and Congress fail to agree on how to balance the
federal budget. The shutdown affects non-essential federal services, including the National Park Service. A longer shutdown follows in December.
After a llegedly ignoring federal pollution regulations for years, General M otors agrees under threat of an $1 1 -m illion fine to recall 50 0 ,000 Cadillacs at a cost of $45 m illion .
A record snowfall paralyzes the East Coast in January 1996, branding travelers and killing
MOO people. Seven states, from Virginia to Massachusetts, declare emergencies. Philadelphia gets 30.7 inches of snow.
American women celebrate the 75th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which granted women the right to vote. Women’s suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) first organized the fight for suffrage in 1848.
As more Americans invest, Wall Street enjoys a bull market. In November, the Dow-Jones Industrial
Average hits 5000, a milestone indicating healthy corporate profits and low interest rates.
On April 30, the adoptive parents of four-year-old “ Baby
Richard” comply with an Illinois court order to turn the child over to his biological parents.
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As the result of an improperly cleaned test tube at a fertility
clinic, a woman in the Netherlands gives birth to twin boys, each from a different father. In March, the Federal Drug
Administration approves a chicken
pox vaccine. Rarely fatal,
chicken-pox affects 3.7 million
Americans annually.
A rchaeologists discover a 3,000-year-old tomb in May
that is believed to hold the remains of 52 sons of Ramses II, Pharaoh of Egypt.
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Researchers announce that they have isolated a gene in
mice linked to obesity. Mice with a mutated OB gene are injected with the hormone leptin, resulting in dramatic weight loss. The public is tantalized at the prospect of leptin as a slimming treatment for use in humans.NASA
A stunning photograph from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a moment in the birth of a star in the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light years
from Earth. Light from the young star’s nuclear furnace lifts towering pillars of hydrogen gas and interstellar dust.
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Fossils of a jawbone (left) and leg bone (right) found in Kenya in August reveal a previously unknown species of upright hominid that lived four million years ago, pushing the emergence of bipedalism back half a million years. Walking upright is a key adaptation that separates humans from apes.
As a protective measure against counterfeiting in the era of digital publishing, the Treasury Department redesigns U.S. currency bills, to be issued over the next five years, starting early 1996 with the new $100 bill.
The world’s first test-tube gorilla is born at the Cincinnati Zoo in October as part of an effort to save the western lowland gorilla, an endangered species that numbers fewer than 450 animals.
In a procedure known as tissue engineering, scientists grow a human ear under the skin of a laboratory mouse. Researchers hope the procedure will play an important role in the future of transplant surgery.
Media attention focuses on melatonin, a naturally occurring hormone used to induce sleep and slow the effects of aging. Lauded as a wonder drug, a kilogram of synthetic melatonin sells for as much as $10,000.
flashAfter a decade-long search, scientists isolate what may be the most important cancer- related gene. The defective gene known as ATM is associated with cancers of the breast, colon, lung, stomach, pancreas and skin, and may be carried by two m illion Americans.
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope observe new moons orbiting the planet Saturn, adding at least 2 moons and possibly 4 to Saturn’s previously known total of 18.
A team of French and British explorers believe they have found an ancient breed of horse previously unknown to scientists. In November, the four-foot high horse with a triangular head, which resem bles the vanished horses of European Stone Age drawings, is named Riwoche for its hom e region in Tibet.
October sa te llite photographs show the recent rapid deterioration of the earth’s ozone layer above Antarctica. Pollutants produced mostly by the U .S. cause the hole in the atm osphere’s protective layer to increase to the size of Europe.
In November, Visa introduces a cash-storage card that eliminates a pocketful of loose change. A chip in the plastic card tracks the amount of available cash, which is accessed with a reader at the place of purchase. The card can be taken to the oankand reloaded.
Now virtual reality comes in a handy travel size with Nintendo's latest, Virtual Boy, a portable 3-D video-game system with stereophonic sound.
New research shows that the meat-eating Tyrannosaurus rex did not loom upright, but stalked along lower to the ground. The discovery is reflected in the reopened exhibits of the famed dinosaur halls of New York’s American Museum of Natural History after three years of redesign.
Former rivals in space become comrades in space after the
historic docking of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis and Russia’s M ir space station on June 29. Astronaut Robert Gibson (in red) greets cosmonaut Vladimir Dezhurov.
Buyers rush to stores for the new computer operating
system Windows 95, spurred by Microsoft Corp.’s $700-million publicity barrage and the promise of a friendlier interface.
In June, volcanic eruptions give birth to a baby island. A new member of the Tonga Islands
emerges near New Zealand, 900 feet high and 140 feet wide.
The movie Apollo 13 opens in the summer after filming
many of its scenes inside NASA’s “zero gravity” plane, which mimics the weightlessness astronauts experience in space by diving into a 23-second freefall.
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W ith $150,000 saved during her 75 hardworking years
as a washerwoman, Oseola McCarty establishes a scholarship fund for African- American students at the University of Southern Mississippi. For her selflessness, she is awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal.
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Millions of Americans tune in to Martha Stewart’s TV show, subscribe to her magazine, and read her books. The popular cooking and home-decorating entrepreneur builds an empire by packaging a distinctive American nostalgic style.
Bill Gates, founder and chairman of the computer giant Microsoft, becomes the wealthiest man in the world on the success of his company’s software. His book The Road Ahead hits The New York Times best-seiler list.
Hot actor Antonio Banderas falls in love with another screen sex- symbol Melanie Griffith during the filming of Two Much. Banderas will co-star with Madonna in the film version of Evita and will star in Steven Spielberg-produced Zorro.
Seventies superstar John Travolta’s motion-picture comeback in the 1994 hit Pulp Fiction continues with starring roles in Get Shorty and Broken Arrow.
Sandra Bullock follows up her star-making role in Speed with the gentle romance While You Were Sleeping. Bullock’s fresh, wholesome image earns her an “Entertainer of the Year” nomination from Entertainment Weekly magazine.
Pamela Lee of "Baywatch” fame and husband Tommy Lee, Motley Crue drummer, are the life
of the party this year, frequently caught by the press engaging in public displays of affection.
Trailblazer Shannon Faulkner (hand to head) withdraws from the Citadel after collapsing
during “hell week.” Faulkner singlehandedly attempted to bust the gender barrier at the all-male South Carolina military institution.
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A lready well known for her appearances in Aerosmith
music videos, 19-year-old Alicia Silverstone achieves stardom with the 1995 summer movie hit Clueless.
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Favorite of America’s heartland for his You Might Be A Redneck If... jokes, Georgia-born stand-up comic and author Jeff Foxworthy gets his own ABC sitcom in which he plays himself.
Model Beckford Tyson, singled out by Ralph Lauren for his all- American looks, signs an exclusive contract with the fashion designer in 1995.
Miss Oklahoma Shawntel Smith is crowned Miss America on September 16. During the broadcast of the 75th pageant, viewers phone in their votes to retain the swimsuit competition.
John F. Kennedy, Jr., is cofounder and editor-in-chief of George, a glossy new magazine covering American politics. Hounded all his life by the press, Kennedy joins their ranks, contributing a feature interview to each issue.
Stand-up comic and sitcom star Ellen DeGeneres makes
the best-seller list with her book My Point...And I Do Have One.
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Christopher Reeve, in a wheelchair and hooked up to
a portable respirator, appears with his wife, Dana, at the American Paralysis Association’s annual gala on November 9, less than five months after a fall from a horse left him almost totally paralyzed.
Calvin Klein’s provocative CK Jeans campaign causes an uproar in August, bringing nasty headlines, threats of retailer boycotts and an FBI investigation. The scandal only seems to help sales.
M ichael Jackson and Lisa M arie Presley announce their divorce alm ost a year after their surprise m arriage. The tabloids have a field day speculating about the reasons for the m arriage (was it a cold- hearted career move?) as well as the causes for the break-up (was he after Elvis’ fortune?).
Breaking the Surface , the autobiography of Greg Louganis, form er U.S. Olympic gold-medal diver who revealed earlier that he has AIDS, debuts at No. 2 on the best-seller list.
Popcorn m agnate Orville Redenbacher, who transformed popping corn into a gourmet item, dies on Septem ber 19 from heart fa ilure.
Two Chinese wom en set a new Guiness world record in November by living in a room for 12 days with 888 poisonous snakes. The previous world record, set in Singapore in 1987, was 10 days with 200 snakes.
Actress Demi Moore becomes the highest paid woman in
( Ho lywood, able to command $12.5 million per movie, even after this year's flop at the box off ce The Scarlet Letter, loosely
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A10-year-old St. Louis schoolboy, Larry Champagne III, becomes a
hero by taking control of his school bus after the driver suffered a stroke. Champagne is later awarded a $10,000 scholarship by the bus company.
America is disappointed in its high hopes for Colin Powell’s 1996 presidential candidacy. At the close of his whirlwind book tour for
l/ly American Journey, the General and his wife Alma announce in November that he will not seek the Republican nomination.
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Batman Forever, with Val Kilmer in the title role and
Chris O'Donnell as Robin, becomes the third Batman movie and the summer’s top- grossing film.
After an unpromising start, Conan O'Brien quietly gains popularity as host of NBC’s “ Late Night,” a slot previously filled by David Letterman. Letterman’s current show on CBS slowly loses viewers.
Whitney Houston stars in the December film release, Waiting to Exhale, adapted from Terry McMillan’s best-selling novel about the lives of four middle- class African-American women. Houston sings the title song for the movie soundtrack, which enjoys brisk sales.
Denzel Washington, critically acclaimed for his performances in films Crimson Tide and Devil in a Blue Dress, receives highest praise from the City of Los Angeles, which honors him with the Martin Luther King, Jr., Award for his philanthropic work on behalf of children.
Although ABC cancels her TV series “My So-Called Life,” 17-year-old Claire Danes hits the big screen in How to Make an American Quilt, To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, and Romeo and Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio as her co-star.
Disney Pictures continues its line of animated
blockbusters with the Native American legend Pocahontas. The picture previews in New York’s Central Park to an outdoor audience of 200,000.
The fifth actor to play 007 in the enduring film series begun in the 1960s, Pierce Brosnan
abandons his Aston Martin for a BMW Z3 Roadster in Goldeneye, the latest and, some say, best James Bond movie.
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In the suspense-thriller Seven heartthrob Brad Pitt attracts a wide male audience with his performance as a detective on the trail of a serial killer whose murders are based on the sevsn deadly sins.
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Three 1995 movies bring Jane Austen classics to the silver screen: Clueless, based on
Austen’s novel Emma, and Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion.
Ten years after creating the Pooular comic strip “Calvin and Hoobes,” cartoonist Bill We tterson retires in December.
Horror-fiction author Stephen King signs a deal with Signet books to release his upcoming story, The Green Mile, as a paperback series.
Devoted fans will not be denied another season of NBC’s sitcom “Seinfeld” after all. Creator Jerry
Seinfeld decides to keep his “show about nothing”
going for an eighth season.
Fox TV’s “The X Files” stars David Duchovny as an FBI agent who investigates supernatural phenomena. The show becomes a surprise hit, giving millions of viewers reason to look forward to staying home on a Friday night.
Toy Story is the world’s first entirely computer-animated
film. Released by Disney during the Christmas season, it features the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, and Don Rickies.
MTV introduces “Singled O ut,” an over-the-top dating game show where contestants ask random, pointless questions of a crowd of suitors, sight unseen, until the zany answers have elim inated all but that one perfect love match.
According to a Roper Youth Poll, the two hottest TV shows among teens this season are the daytim e soap “ Days of Our Lives” and the evening soap “ Melrose P lace .”
The popular NBC TV series “Friends” returns for a second highly rated season. Its
runaway success inspires less successful imitations by other networks.
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television network in July.
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Jim Carrey earns $20 million for the starring role in the comedy Ace Ventura: When
Nature Calls, a sequel to the extraordinarily popular Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
“The Jon Stew art Show,” a late-night ta lk show aim ed at Generation X, fa ils to catch on. During the fina l taping, host Stewart says, “To all those people who said my show wouldn’t last, I have only one thing to say. Good ca ll.”
BC’s hospital drama “E.R.” continues to draw high ratings throughout 1995 thanks to Iramatic realism and the appeal of handsome rge Clooney (middle right), supermodel ly Crawford's latest date.
Blues Traveler emerge from the underground scene to
widespread popularity with their album Four and the single “Run-Around.”
Twenty-year-old Canadian newcomer Alanis Morissette raises some eyebrows with her up-front, aggressive lyrics and attitudes. Nevertheless, her album Jagged Little Pill goes double platinum.
Sixties icon Jerry Garcia, guitarist of The Grateful Dead, dies of a heart attack on August 9 at age 53. Garcia’s musical roots in blues, country and folk are apparent in hits like “Truckin’.” Legions of Deadheads mourn his passing.
Brandy, whose self-titled platinum album and single “ I Wanna Be Down” hit high on the R&B charts, sweeps the first Soul Train Music Awards in August. The 16-year-old singer wins Best New Artist, among other awards.
Beatlemania returns in 1995 with ABC’s six-hour documentary The Beatles Anthology, the video releases of A Hard Day’s Night and Help! and the album collection Anthology, featuring previously unreleased material.
The chart-topping movie soundtrack Dangerous Minds features Coolio’s rap anthem “Gangsta’s Paradise,” the number-one single of the year according to Billboard magazine.
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Their down-to-earth style soulful pop songs make
Hootie and the Blowfish popular favorites. Their debut album Cracked Rear View sells over 5 million, and the group is named Best New Artist at the MTV Music Awards in September.
Cleveland-based rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony vault
to the top of the charts with some old-fashioned harmonizing on the album £ 1999 Eternal.
Yoko Ono and Little Richard join a host of celebrities at
the opening of the glitzy Rock- and-Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland on September 1.
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Rocker Melissa Etheridge follows topselling Yes, I Am with her fifth album,
Your Little Secret.
Live dedicate their single “ Lightning Crashes” to
victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. The rock band's Throwing Copper album yields three hit singles; Billboard Music Awards names them Rock Artist of the Year.
The Chicago-based rock band Smashing Pumpkins release their epic double album Mellon Collie and the
Infinite Sadness to critical and public acclaim.
Mariah Carey’s Daydream sells over 5 million copies,
taking number-one spot on the Billboard album chart. Carey performs with Boyz II Men on the hit single “One Sweet Day.”
R.E.M.’s sum m er tour is interrupted by m edical em ergencies for three of the band's four m em bers. The tour, their first in five years, is eventually com pleted with all members in good health.
In October, David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails wrap up the U.S. portion of Bowie's world tour. At each show, Bowie and Trent Reznor's band play a set together. In December, Bowie tours Europe with Morrissey as his opening act.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers tone down their tradem ark bawdiness in their newest album, One H ot M inute.
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Atlanta’s TLC is honored at the Billboard Music Awards for
providing two of the year’s biggest hits. “Creep" and “Waterfalls" both lead the Hot 100 singles charts for weeks.
Former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl plays a new sound as guitarist and lead singer in the Foo
Fighters, an alternative rock band that enjoys three singles off their self-titled debut album in 1995.
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Selena, the 23-year-old Tejano music queen, is gunned down in Corpus Christi in March 1995 by Yolanda Saldivar, former president of her fan club. The July release of a collection of Selena’s hits, Dreaming o f You, sees some of the fastest sales in music history.
A nard-luck story turns into overnight success in the case of C< nadian Shania Twain, born in poverty to an Irish mother and ar. Ojibway Indian father. Twain’s 1995 hits include “Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?,” “Z5 ny Man of Mine" and the title tune to her 3-million-selling alii urn The Woman In Me.
Success doesn’t mellow the style of alternative rock band Green Day, who release their anxiously awaited fourth album Insomniac, their fastest and darkest album to date.
Seal’s hit off the Batman Forever movie soundtrack, “Kiss From a Rose,” is all over the summer playlists. The single propels the artist’s self-titled album to the double-platinum mark.
the record-setting sales of his album Fresh Horses, only three musical acts in U.S. history outsell country music icon Garth Brooks: the Beatles, the Eagles, and Billy Joel.
Jeff Gordon, 24, dominates the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing’s Winston Cup, winning 7 of NASCAR’s 31 races and earning $4.3 million in 1995, a record for the sport.
The University of Nebraska demolishes the University of Florida, 62-24, in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl to win their second consecutive national college football title and cap Cornhuskers coach Tom Osborne's 23rd season.
Mickey Mantle,; ind one of the great
sluggers in baseball history, di s of cancer on August 13. Mantle hit 536 home runs in his 18-year career and compiled a lifetime batting average of .298.
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announces its move to Baltimore
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their move to Nashville.
I n May 1995, Peter Blake’s I Team New Zealand in “ Black Magic 1" defeats Dennis Conner's team in “Young America” in the first 5-0 sweep in the 144-year history of the America’s Cup.
The Houston Rockets, led by center Hakeem Olajuwon, win their second consecutive National Basketball Association championship in June, sweeping the series with the Orlando Magic in four games.
Twenty-one-year-old tennis champ Monica Seles, returning to competitive play two years after being stabbed at a tournament in Germany, wins the 1995 Australian Open.
International soccer star Michelle Akers, world’s top
woman player, leads the U.S. women’s soccer team to a 2-1 sudden-death victory over Norway in the U.S. Cup title game in August.
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The New Jersey Devils win the National Hockey
League’s Stanley Cup, beating the heavily favored Detroit Red Wings in four straight games.
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I n Super Bowl XXX, the heavily favored I Dallas Cowboys beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 27-17. Dallas cornerback Larry Brown ices the game for the Cowboys with the second of his two interceptions, and is named MVP for his heroics.
The National Basketball Association fines the Chicago Bulls $25,000 when Michael Jordan wears his previously
retired number 23 jersey for luck during championship playoffs against the Orlando Magic in May 1995.
Known for his temperamental Personality, his many tattoos and his regressive playing style, basketball center Dennis Rod nan (91) debuts with the Chicago Bulls after his trade from the San Antonio Spurs.
For a record fifth straight time, Miguel Indurain of Spain wins the 22-day, 2,270-mile Tour de France, the world’s premier bicycle race. On the 15th day of the race, Italian road-race champ Fabio Casartelli is killed in a seven-man crash.
Betsy King wins her 30th tournament on June 25 and gains entry to the Ladies’ Professional Golf Association’s Flail of Fame, one of the most difficult attainments in sports.
1995 football season: 47,1 yards, 342 touchdowns, 3,686 completions and 6,467 attempts.
The Atlanta Braves edge the Jeveland Indians 1-0 in game
six to win the World Series on October 28. Closing pitcher Mark Wohlers leaps for joy.
Former L.A. Lakers point guard Earvin “ M ag ic” Johnson announces a return to basketball in January 1996. Johnson retired in 1991 when he discovered he was HIV positive.
German tennis star Steffi Graf, who won three of five Grand
Slam titles in 1995, ends the professional tennis season ranked number one in the world.
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substandard refereeing.
The Northwestern University W ildcats— long a gridiron laughingstock— pile up ten victories in 1995 and go to the Rose Bowl for the first tim e since 1949.
In his first fight in four years, form er world heavyweight champ M ike Tyson disposes of challenger Peter M cNeeley in 89 seconds. Tyson, who in March finished a three-year ja il term for a rape conviction, earns $25 m illion for the August boxing match.
Pete Sam pras, winner of the 1995 m en’s singles championships at W im bledon and the U .S. Open, ends the professional tennis season with a number-one world ranking.
Master of the sinking fastball and still learning to speak English, L.A. Dodgers pitcher Hideo Nomo, formerly with the Kintetsu Buffaloes in Japan, is named Rookie of the Year. Nomo is the second Japanese-born player to join the U.S.
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n September, Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr., achieves a record-setting 2,131 consecutive games.
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Diners are treated to variations on theme cafes, as Hard
Rock Cafe is joined by Fashion Cafe, Planet Hollywood, Harley- Davidson Cafe, and London’s
Cyberia Cafe where patrons sip coffee and
surf the • Internet.
Young people continue to follow
wide-leg jeans trend, forsaking t
jeans for a loose baggy Fit.The most recent fad in purses takes the form of small
backpacks.
Designer water spreads to the
pet world. Doting pet owners buy tuna-flavored bottled water for Fluffy and beef- flavored bottled J water for Spot, i
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popular history of ™ M&M’s candies: a new blue M&M joins the colorful candy- coated mix.
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Americans consume culture and history as attendance at America’s 8,000
museums climbs to 600 million people per year, more than movie, theater, and sports attendance combined.
Logo-wear reaches a new level of sophistication. Among the
reigning makers of athletic wear, only Nike can spark recognition without the use of its name.
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“Some pretty cool people drink milk” is the message carried by high-profile ad campaign featuring a raft of popular celebrities sporting a white upper lip on behalf of the healthy beverage. Th( milk-moustache effect is created with latex, a rubber-based pair
The angel message of “fear not" strikes a deep chord with Americans’ yearning for spiritual growth and comfort in a stressful time. People enjoy angel collectibles, angel sites on the Internet, and angel books and magazines.
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Taking her place among controversial talk-show hosts as the “Oprah for the junior set,” Ricki Lake speaks to such concerns as, “Mom, when my boyfriend gets out of jail, I’m taking him back.”
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