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1978 At ZHS

• Senior Prom theme: Always and Forever

• SUPERLATIVES OF 1978
•     Most Athletic: Yvette Tomayo, Tim Jonas
•      Best All Around: Lori Quinn,  Tim Jonas
•      Most Popular: Sylvia Carmona, Tim Jonas
•      Class Flirts: Patches Emerson, Jose Rapposelli
•      Best Looking: Kelly Robinson, Tim Almond
•      Friendliest: Sylvia Carmona, Gerald Cook
•      Best Dressed:  Yvette Cartagena, Dean Rogers
•      Most Humorous: Pat Turner,  Jose Rapposelli

The Class of 1978, as Juniors in 1977, placed the following message in the 1976-77 yearbook; words of advice for the future to the seniors.

        Friendship
           Unity
             Caring
               Kindness

     Will get you through life
       From the Junior class
                of
                '78

  US Top Ten Singles
(* indicates a #1 song)
POS-TITLE-Artist (Peak Position-Peak Month)

1976

 *1   SILLY LOVE SONGS
      Wings (Capitol) (#1, May)
*2   DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART
      Elton John and Kiki Dee (Rocket) (#1, Aug)
*3   DISCO LADY
      Johnnie Taylor (Columbia) (#1, April)
*4   DECEMBER 1963 (Oh, What a Night)
      The Four Seasons (Warner/Curb) (#1, March)
*5   PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC
      Wild Cherry (Sweet City) (#1, Sept)
*6   KISS AND SAY GOODBYE
      The Manhattans (Columbia) (#1, July)
*7   LOVE MACHINE (Part 1)
      The Miracles (Tamla) (#1, March)
*8   50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER
      Paul Simon (Columbia) (#1, Feb)
 9   LOVE IS ALIVE
      Gary Wright (Warner Brothers) (#2, July)
*10  A FIFTH OF BEETHOVEN
      Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band (Private Stock) (#1, Oct)

1977

*1   TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT (Gonna Be Alright)
      Rod Stewart (Warner Brothers) (#1, Nov 1976)
*2   I JUST WANT TO BE YOUR EVERYTHING
      Andy Gibb (RSO) (#1, July)
*3   BEST OF MY LOVE
      The Emotions (Columbia) (#1, Aug)
*4   LOVE THEME FROM "A STAR IS BORN" (Evergreen)
      Barbra Streisand (Columbia) (#1, March)
 5   ANGEL IN YOUR ARMS
      Hot (Big Tree) (#6, July)
 6   I LIKE DREAMIN'
      Kenny Nolan (20th Century) (#3, March)
*7   DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY
      Thelma Houston (Tamla) (#1, April)
 8   (Your Love Has Lifted Me) HIGHER AND HIGHER
      Rita Coolidge (A&M) (#2, Sept)
*9   UNDERCOVER ANGEL
      Alan O'Day (Pacific) (#1, July)
*10  TORN BETWEEN TWO LOVERS
      Mary MacGregor (Ariola America) (#1, Feb)

1978

*1   SHADOW DANCING
      Andy Gibb (RSO) (#1, June)
*2   NIGHT FEVER
      The Bee Gees (RSO (#1, March)
*3   YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE
      Debby Boone (Warner/Curb) (#1, Oct 1977)
*4   STAYIN' ALIVE
      The Bee Gees (RSO) (#1, Feb)
*5   KISS YOU ALL OVER
     Exile (Warner/Curb) (#1, Sept)
*6   HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE
      The Bee Gees (RSO) (#1,Dec 1977)
*7   BABY COME BACK
      Player (RSO) (#1, Jan)
*8   LOVE IS THICKER THAN WATER
      Andy Gibb (RSO) (#1, March)
*9   BOOGIE OOGIE OOGIE
      A Taste Of Honey (Capitol) (#1, Sept)
*10  THREE TIMES A LADY
      The Commodores (Motown) (#1, Aug)

1979

*1   MY SHARONA
      The Knack (Capitol) (#1, Aug)
*2   BAD GIRLS
      Donna Summer (Casablanca) (#1, July)
*3   LE FREAK
      Chic (Atlantic) (#1, Dec 1978)
*4   DO YA THINK I'M SEXY
      Rod Stewart (Warner Brothers) (#1, Feb)
*5   REUNITED
      Peaches and Herb (Polydor) (#1, May)
*6   I WILL SURVIVE/
      SUBSTITUTE
      Gloria Gaynor (Polydor) (#1, March)
*7   HOT STUFF
      Donna Summer (Casablanca) (#1, June)
 8   Y.M.C.A.
      The Village People (Casablanca) (#2, Feb)
*9   RING MY BELL
      Anita Ward (Juana) (#1, June)
*10  SAD EYES
      Robert John (EMI-America) (#1, Oct)

Greatest Films of 1976

          All the President's Men (1976), 138 minutes, D: Alan J.
          Pakula

          Bound for Glory (1976), 147 minutes, D: Hal Ashby

          Carrie (1976), 97 minutes, D: Brian De Palma

          Marathon Man (1976), 125 minutes, D: John Schlesinger

          Network (1976), 120 minutes, D: Sidney Lumet

          Robin and Marian (1976), 106 minutes, D: Richard Lester

          Rocky (1976), 119 minutes, D: John G. Avildsen

          Taxi Driver (1976), 112 minutes, D: Martin Scorsese

Greatest Films of 1978

          The Buddy Holly Story (1978), 113 minutes, D: Steve Rash

          Coming Home (1978), 126 minutes, D: Hal Ashby

          Days of Heaven (1978), 95 minutes, D: Terrence Malick

          The Deer Hunter (1978), 183 minutes, D: Michael Cimino

          Eraserhead (1978), 90 minutes, D: David Lynch

          Halloween (1978), 90 minutes, D: John Carpenter

          Heaven Can Wait (1978), 101 minutes, D: Warren Beatty,
          Buck Henry

          Interiors (1978), 93 minutes, D: Woody Allen

          Midnight Express (1978), 120 minutes, D: Alan Parker

          National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), 109 minutes, D:
          John Landis

          Superman (1978), 143 minutes, D: Richard Donner

          An Unmarried Woman (1978), 124 minutes, D: Paul Mazursky

Greatest Films of 1979

          Alien (1979), 116 minutes, D: Ridley Scott

          All That Jazz (1979), 123 minutes, D: Bob Fosse

          Apocalypse Now (1979), 139 minutes, D: Francis Ford
          Coppola

          Being There (1979), 130 minutes, D: Hal Ashby

          The Black Stallion (1979), 118 minutes, D: Carol Ballard

          Breaking Away (1979), 100 minutes, D: Peter Yates

          The China Syndrome (1979), 122 minutes, D: James Bridges

          Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), 104 minutes, D: Robert Benton

          Manhattan (1979), 96 minutes, D: Woody Allen

          The Muppet Movie (1979), 95 minutes, D: James Frawley

          Norma Rae (1979), 110 minutes, D: Martin Ritt

          North Dallas Forty (1979), 119 minutes, D: Ted Kotcheff

          Star Trek - The Motion Picture (1979), 132 minutes, D: Robert
          Wise

          10 (1979), 121 minutes, D: Blake Edwards

          The Warriors (1979), 90 minutes, D: Walter Hill

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Politics

• Jimmy Carter is president of the United States. Walter Mondale is V.P.
• The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
• The Shah of Iran imposes martial rule to put an end to violent anti-government protests. The Shah's overthrow and the taking of American hostages is still a year away.

  U.S. Congress extends the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to June 30,  1982.

Religion

• Pope Paul VI dies. His successor, Pope John Paul I also dies. Cardinal Karol Wojtyla becomes Pope John Paul II.

  Pres. Spencer Kimball of the Mormon Church announces priesthood will be granted  to black male members.

At The Movies

• Grease
• Rocky
• Close Encounters of a Third Kind
• National Lampoon's Animal House
• Jaws 2
• The Deer Hunter

Music
 

• Hot child in the city - Nick Gilder
• Kiss you all over - Exile
• Lay down Sally - Eric Clapton
• It's a heartache - Bonnie Tyler
• I go crazy - Paul Davis
• Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon
  • Baby Hold On by Eddie Money.
  • Hot Blooded by Foreigner.
  • Lay Down Sally by Eric Clapton.
  • Night Fever by the Bee Gees.
  • We Are The Champions by Queen.
  • Barry Manilow wins a Grammy for Copacabana (Can You Believe That??)
  • 
    We are the Toros, mighty mighty Toros....

Science/Technology
 

• First test tube baby born in England.
• Thor Heyerdahl sails a reed boat from Qurna, Iraq to the coast of Djibouti.
• Personal computers are still in the embryonic stage.
• 
  The Space Shuttle "Enterprise" is lauded for a successful mission.

Sports

• Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg rule the tennis world. A youngster, John McEnroe, begins to challenge their reign.
• Dallas beats Denver in the Super Bowl.
• Yankees beat the Dodgers in the World Series.
• Washington Bullets win the NBA Championship.
• 
  Leon Spinx wins the world heavyweight boxing crown only to be defeated seven months later by Muhammad Ali.

World News

•  Jim Jones, leader of the People's Temple, dies with 917 others in a murder-suicide in Guyana.

• David Berkowitz, "Son of Sam", sentenced to life in prison for six murders in New York City.
• 
  World population stands at 4.4 billion.

Since 1978

• Mount St. Helens volcano
• NBA adopts three point shot
• Prince Charles and Lady Diana marry and divorce. Princess Diana dies in a car  crash.
• Disneyworld in Florida opens
• U.S. boycotts Moscow Olympics; Russia boycotts Los Angeles Olympics.
• Spread of AIDS.
• Chernobyl
• A company named Microsoft starts making software.
• Communist rule falls in several East block countries, including the Soviet Union.