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The Path of Enlightenment
14JU
Opening Tribute to
Umar
Candids
Senior photos
Candids
Sports
Clubs
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HALLOWEEN
Campus Events
Finals Week
Graduation
Closing
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Umar Hasan
December 24, 1961 - October 24, 1994
In loving memory of Umar Hasan for his unique spirit,
creative mind, caring nature, enthusiastic will to succeed,
and dedicated commitment to making a difference at
St. Mary's College.
Umar Hasan died due to AIDS on October 24, 1994. He was
Assistant Director of Student Development and Director of
Forensics. He will be missed by his friends and students.
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Jacqueline Aitoro
"I want the fairy tale. " -Pretty Woman
Dominic Amos
Peace ■ >ur say soulbrother #1." Good Luck toallW!
SuzelleAmyot
Fight the good fight every moment - it's your only way! -Triumph
Krista Andersen
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in
exploring new landscapes, but in having new
eyes. "
-W. Amos
Jon Anderson
Mary Augustin
Jason Baer
Heres to ponds pen das ocialh our. mh
armies smut hand fun. Letf nends hip re
tgn, beju standk iti d. an devils peak ofn one.
-Old Scottish Toasl
Rock Baker
"I max be white.
but ! ain't stupid. "
-Stevie Ray Vaughan
Christine R. Barr
"I've had the time of my life!"
Janel Bennett
Mike Benton
"Everyday I wonder what it is to be alive . . .
Everyday I wonder what it is to be
something, 'cause something is what I'm
gonna be. "
-Everything
Nathan R. Berger
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Class of -1995
Dave
Wieldt and Nick Blank stay up all night studying for one of those infa- mous Bio exams.
Lara J. Blatchford
"Thus mathematics may be defined as the subjei r in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
-Bertrjnd Russell
Andrew R. Bombick
Molly F. Bowes
imes vou're the windshield. mes you're the bug. "
-Mar) Chapin Carpenter
John Bratt
"Don't hate me because I'm beautiful."
-Uncle Faibov
Amity Breslin
Dave Brelsford
"Hi. I jint graduated from St Mary's
May I Super Si:e that for you?
v\\or* "PoH" rc\ifs
Barb, Am- ity, Jen, Robin and Becca host a festive townhouse party. (With no underage drinkers, of : course!)
Beth Anne Briley
Live Not in the Shadowlands
Jeffrey Buler
Rebecca R. Burger
"Far away, there in the sunshine are my
highest aspirations. I may not reach them.
hut I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them and try to follow where thev
lead. "
-Louisa May Alcott
Valorie Burgess
Fun is where sou find if!
David Cabrera
Jennifer L. Campbell
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<dc*ss of ^995
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Available
Nicholas M. Catt
1 1/ //it' investigation which I made at the god's command: I found thai the men whose reputation for wisdom stood highest were nearly the most lat king in it, while inkers who were looked down on a.\ eommon people were
mm h more intelligent. "
-Plato
David M. Christopher
Hector is dead, there is no more to saw
Brian A. Clapp
"Maybe I should come back for a Theatre degree. "
Timothy E. Clarke, Jr.
Fighl the %ood fight every moment - it's your <>nl\ inn '
-Triumph
Amy Cox
Alicia Davis
Suzanne DeHaan
Dawn Downs
Sara Kathleen Drew
"The good thing about the future is that it only 1 omes one day at a time. "
Lisa Marie Dyson
Dan Eagan
Steve Shaw Eagley
Sail to Antiqua? . , Sure, what could go wrong ?
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Rae A. Edmonson
/ do nol recall. Senator,
Jessica Eldridge
"Certain things they ought to stay the way
lhf\ me You ought to he able to ■■Ink them
in one "i those big glass i ases and just leave
them alone "
-J.D Salinger
Dana Jeanne Fehlberg
"It's M hat you know after you know it all that t ounts
- Harrv S Truman
Douglas James Fisher
"Play every game as if
it was your last. "
- Jay Hurley
Per Mario Floden
four years and mountains (rum mole hills
April Getty
Joel Gilbertson
Paula Goodwin
"The spirit /<< win and the will to excel is always measured one \H"k< .n ,1 miu-
Erin Callahan Greeley
"Agathon sal down "
Ron Haas
"To be silly is t" err The better part of ambition is discipline - Michael Glaser
Heather Haberle
■Beauty and grace are
performed whet he i <" nol we
will or sense them The least
we can do is try to be there
-Annie Dillard
Michael J. Hall
"Believe me or noi thi\ all won't r
hi a hundred years
er, so I will play the
game. "
-Jimmy Buffell
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<Z~\&ss of -\993
: Nick Catt : sits upon ; the pillar '• of "wise- : dumb" ; pondering ■ the 7 won- : ders of the • world.
Jay Harper
"»As ich vor einem Jahr dich wiederbltckie, KuBiesi du mich nichi in der Wil!kommsiund.« So sprach ich, und der Liebsten rater Mttnd Den schonsten KuB auf meine Lippen drucktt
-Heinnch Heine
Jennifer Harris
Darren Edward John Hawkins
"Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education. "
-Thomas Hughes
Gordon Andrew Hawley
"it is a far, far better thing to have a firm mi, hor in nonsense than to pat out on the troubled seas of thought. "
- John Kenneth Galbrailh
Tamara L. Heino
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose tight oj tin short
-Andre Gide
Christopher Heun
7 don't erne what the newspapers w<> about me as long as they
spell m\ name right. "
-Will Rodders
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Barb, Val and Rose grace The Door with their pres- ence.
Amy Elizabeth Hill
"These are days you'll remember. Sever
before and never since, I promise, will the
H //i tie world he warm as this And as you
feel it. you'll know it's true that you are
blessed and lucky. "
-10.000 Maniacs
Ellen Howard
Glenn Humphrey
Victoria L. Jacobs
"i keep hearing
tree talk
water words
keep knowing what they mean"
- Lucille Clifton
Tanya Jenkins
Graham Johnson
/ don't ftai e no quote. "
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ass o
f 1995
Jeffrey Marc Jones
"Thai which makes you exceptional will also make you lonely // is not your job ro follow the crow J but to lea J the parade. "
• Patricia Russe McCloud
Jeni Keisman
Peter J. Kelly, Jr.
"For he todax that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother. "
-William Shakespeare
Leigh Kessler
"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you -Joseph Campbell
Libby Killinger
"What a strange little tadpole you are "
from James and the Giant Peach
Yong H. Kim
This is an ending for another beginning.
Cynthia King
But it's a big, REAL hole1.
-Halloween. 1994
Maria Kinigopoulos
"Last of all, no! least of all, I hope I never lose m\ mind
-D. Barren
Aaron Dean Koos
"Insert memorable but generic senior quote here. "
John Kopec
"Changes ai altitudes, changes in latitudes, nothing remains quite the same. "
-Buffet!
Jennifer Krumrine
Sarah Beth Kuszaj
"Before the rising sun, we flv so many roads to choose we start off walking and learn to nm. and we've only just begun . . ."
-Richard Carpenter
rvior l-^oH- r<sii+s
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Rachel Lawrence
"Our father who an in heaven, we have no
sins' for winch to be forgiven. We embrace
our Mother, the Earth ■ what can we do to
save you?"
-Jane Evershed
Dave LaSalle
"Believing I had supernatural powers, I ran into a brick wall -Paul Simon
John S. Leach
In the end, there can be only one.
Laura Lear
Patricia Geneva Lee
"Two teas. And Lots of Lemon. "
Cynthia V. Leeds
May 1 never miss a rainbow or a sunset because I am looking down.
Mike Lerner
Rachel Libonati
Erin Loomis
Margaret A. Lopez
"Mv friends are gone. I've got nothing to do.
gotta get away, or my brains will explode."
-Green Day
Chris Lyons
"If you're gonna do if. you might as well do it. "
Angela M. Manifold
"When wear) is your world, go and spm another -With Imagination 111 Get There
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(Zl&ss of -1993
HAD TO 8E
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Graham Johnson and Mike Pieper are caught in a tiresome situation!
Tracy Martin
Jeffrey D. Marzen
What U Hat do you want from me"*
Lauren Elizabeth
Matukaitis
There is a comfort in the strength of love, which makes a thing endurable, which else w ould overset the brain, or break the world. -William Wordsworth
Jenn Maurer
Scott C. McCormick
!>iie ago. the world begun, With hey. ho. the wind and the nun: But that's all one. our play is done
-Clown, Twelfth Nighu Act \ v i
Tamara McCrae
rvior Ko^f r*<^x\fs
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Michelle and Paula Goodwin practice the time-hon- ored art of synchro- nized
swimming.
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Margaret A. McCready
"To live is so slanting it leaves little lime for
anything else. "
•Emily Dickinson
"Everyday is a journey and the journey itself
is home. "
-Matsuo Basho
Nancy McQuade
Stephanie McSpadden
"There is Q lesson here folks; it depends a lot on finding that frozen monkey -AlexTrehek
Valerie Miller
Helen Katherine Mitchell
"That the sky is brighter then the earth means little unless the earth use!/ is appreciated and enjoyed -Helen Keller
Christopher M. Moore
And all God's angels beware.
and all sou judges beware
Sons of chance take good , are
for all the peoplt not there
I'm not afraid any more
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CZAcmbs of A993
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J. Dylan Moore
U ihl men who caught and sank the sun in flight, and learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, do not go gentle into that good night Rage. Rage against the dying uf the light
-Dylan Thomas
Shannon Moore
Carnell Mosley
Chris Mueller
David Christian Mummert
. . . and the Young Guns ride .
Christina J. Nelson
There's a time for everyone, if we only learn, that the twist in the kaleidoscope nun ei us all in turn.
-Ellon John, The Lion King
Jacqueline M.Nelson
Always the Serenity Prayer and remember -
"Life's loo short to be stupid. "
Ryan Northrop
Katrina D. Elle Overton
Just this year 1 found the quote to live by. "If you're not on the way, you're in the way, so get out of the way' " And I'm definately
out'" See \a there: Peace and Love
Deva Pachner
Hey, how bout VOH and me gellm together sometime "
-Deva Pachner
Lara Elizabeth Payne
"Remember that you are this universe and that this universe is you. Remember that all /\ in motion, is growing, is you."
-Joy Harjo
Salimah Joylynne Perkins
" 'For I know the plans I have lor you,' declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. plans to give you hope and a future'. "
-Jeremiah 29: 11-12
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Michael J. Pieper
"Try inn. Do or do nor. There is no ir\. " -Yoda
Christopher Piiikerton
Susan M. Polouski
"Wailing for the time when I can finally say
rhat this has all been wonderful, hut nnu I'm
on my way. "
-PHISH
Christopher Raj Powers
"The greatness of a nation and it's animals
are treated. "
-Ghandi
Vicki Quade
Susan J. Quinn
Thomas Rafferty
"Man, unlike any other thing organic or
inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his
work, walks up the stairs of his concepts.
emerges head oj his accomplishments. "
-Grapes of Wrath
Jennifer Rhode
"Even sunrise signals a new adventure. "
Jason Andrew Riggs
"// ain 't what you know,
but what xou feel.
Don '! worry about being right, j
ust be for real."
-George Clinton
Kimberly Ross
Jeremy Rusnock
Catherine E. Russell
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CZA
<^\SS o
f ^1995
Things are looking pretty fishy among the
St. Mary's Seniors!
Jennifer Sands
Meredith Savage
Malinda Schaefer
Kathleen H. Schmidt
J. Mason Schoenfeldt
Leslie Schwanebeck
rvior l-^oH- »^<cii+s
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Steve Butts and Dave Sherwood prepare for their post- college job interviews.
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Jonathan Kyle Schwedler
"Why are all the shadows goi».? the wrong
Julie Shellenberger
Do voit have the patience to wait till your
mud settles and the water is clear''
-Tao De Ching
Erin Skelton
Tim Slayter
Any man's finest hour, his greatest
fulfillment to all he holds dear, is that
moment when he has worked his heart out in
a good < ause and lies exhausted on the field
of battle, victorious
-Vince Lombardi
Marc Smith
Steven Thomas Smith
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Ol^iss of 1995
Mark Aaron Smythe
"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided n isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment
-Roberl Benchley
Julie Souza
Forget not dun the card) delights lo feel your bare feet and the winds long to pla\ with your hair.
-KahlilGibran
Michele Renee Spangle
We seek not rest but transformation. We are darning through eat h oilier as doorways.
-Marge Piercy
Lisa N. Steele
Megan Stewart
Suzanne Amy Strasser
Now is not the end.
It is not even the beginning
of the end.
It is, perhaps, the end of the beginning
-Winston Churchil
Marta Suarez
Peace out say soulbrather #111 Good Luck to rill.""
Tammy Sutton
Cina Swisher
Fight the good fight even- moment - it's your only way!
-Triumph
Dipa Thakkar
"The real voyage of discover}- consists not in exploring new landscapes, but in having new eves. "
-W. Amos
Claudine Thompson
Jennifer Ann
Thompson
I must confess that I live a miserable life I live entirely m my music.
-Ludvig von Beethoven
v\\c>^ T^oH- K^iits
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Stephanie Tiller
Pilantana Trongpanich
Sookyung Uhm
Heather Turnrose
Muriel van den Berg
Si de noche Uorai por el sol, no i eras las estrellas
-Tagore
Branch M. VanMeter
Learn as though you were to live forever and
love as though you were to die tomorrow
Robin Veidt
Donna M. Vincenti
Axoloils ure cool
Peter D. Verchinski
"Nothing is going to happen in this hunk
There is only a
little violence and there in the language, at
the corner,
where eternity clips nun
-Annie Dillard
Jennifer Vogel
Bemuse there was nov\ here
to go hia everyu hen
-Kerouac
Angela Kristie White
"Remain in notion. You are only Trapped h hen you are standing '■nil
Caryl Whiten
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Class of ^993
Heather Whitby
Jana K. Whitney
Jennifer Ross Williams
Home, /""" heart, you cannot rediscovei if ilu dream alone does not suffice.
-FriednchHolderlin
Beverly J. Wise
This is my world, and I am the World Leader pretend Tin-, is my life, and this is my timt I have been given the freedom to do as I see in Its high time I razed the walls that I've constructed
-J. Michael Stipe
Heather Wolfe
Sarah Elizabeth Young
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of -James Taylor
Brooke A. Zdrojewski- Loebe
/ have de\ ided to leave you forever. I hove Jr. ided to Marl things from here- Thunder and lightening won't change what I'm feeling \ndthi daffodils look lovely today. -The Cranberries
Laura Zumbrun
"...One thing is certain, that life flies;
One thing is certain, and the
Rest is Lies:
ih, flowei thai once has bloomed forever dies."
CONGRJVTUUTIONS
kwv Best Wishes!!
e.rvior "PoH" i^<s\i+s
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Underclassmen
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Candids
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VARSITY SPOUTS:
We've got righteous uniforms!
PHOTO BY CATHY BROCKETT
Women's Soccer
Team: Jackie Monica Bell, Lewandowski K.C. Ingrahm Barrett, Nicki Head Coach:
Women's
Overall
Record:
4-10-3
C.A.C.
Record:
2-4-1
Aitoro (Captain), Marie Johnson, Jen Forbes, Ruth Murray, Stephanie Karpinski, Missy , Kristi Jacobs, Kristi LaVardera, Tina Wasowicz, , Meredith Savage, Rebecca Vanisko, Rebecca Ferramosca, Brandi Van Meter (Captain) Mike Sweeney, Asst Coach: Chris Meyers
Men's Overall Record: 7-6-2 C.A.C. Record: 3-4-1
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Field Hockey
Team:JenniferSpeer, Jennifer Reed, Lisa DeMeno, Sarah Bannat, Jessica Chin, Julie Thirolf, Joyce Strickland, Melissa Moore, Angie Castro, Melanie McLean, Kelly Lufborrow, Mirta Teichberg, Molly Bowles, Derith Spicknall, Amy Cox, Heidi Smeller, Jennifer Riffle, Suzanne DeHaan, Julie Shellenberger Head Coach: Tammy Gage
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PHOTO BY CATHY BROCKETT
Men's Soccer
Team: Nicholas Munoz, Timothy Zapp, David Neall, Chad Fowler, Brent Beery, David Layman, John Hogan, Darren Hawkins (Captain), Brian Bazil, Jeff Sack (Captain), Sam Mazzeo, Matt Bell, Chris Bowen, Gregory Foti, John McManus (Captain), Chris Powers, Ryan Voegtlin, Alex Czopp, Geoffrey Hill, Jim Polimadei, Steven Ohlhoff, Brian Waud, Eric Jenkins Head Coach: Barry Schimpf Asst. Coach: Chris Schimpf
PHOTO BY CATHY BROCKETT
Volleyball
Team: Jenni Mullendore, Melanie Suranno, Kate Marks, Alicia Davis, Jenn Herrmann (Captain), Tracy Morgan, Diana Bloom, Jaime Powell, Lindia Papavasiliou, Leigh Kessler (Captain), Kristen Haga, Deanna Casper Head Coach: Tom Brewer Asst Coaches: Steve Bishop, Jay Butler
Volleyball Overall Record: 21-9 C.A.C. Record: 2-5
Fieldhockey Overall Record: 3-11 C.A.C. Record: 0-6
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Men's Basketball
Team: Steve Michelotti (Captain), Barry Friedman (Captain), Fred Johnson, Andy Benincasa, Lewis VanWambeke (Captain), Michael Lind, John Bow- man, Garrett O'Donnell, Chris Harney, Mike Scott, Sean Soyers, Brian Anglim Head Coach: Bob Flynn Asst. Coaches: Matt Ryan, Osaro Ighodaro
PHOTO BY BETH ROSE
The Seahawk enjoys the game with some friends.
Men's Overall Record: 8-17
C.A.C. Record: 3-12
Women's Overall Record: 5-17 C.A.C. Record: 2-11
PHOTO BY RACHEL SUSSMAN
Women's Basketball
Team: Cindy Davenport, Tricia Kilroy, Sarah Bannat, Lesley Kline, Katrina Overton, Stephanie Karpinski, Jen Speer, Gabrielle Nelson, Barb Weaver, Cindy Leeds (Capatin), Elise MacCubbin (Captain), Missy Lewandowski Head Coach: Jav Butler Asst. Coach: Deanna Fairfax
PHOTO BY RACHEL SUSSMAN
Guard Steve Michelotti has a handfull of orange at the Showplace Arena in Upper Marlboro, MD.
PHOTO BY FERN FLANARY
Cheerleaders: Dana Hamilton, Felicia Glaude, Jessica Smith, Mary Azimi, Carla Wolske, Sara Jones, Joyce Strickland
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Sailing
PHOTO BY CATHY BROCKETT
Team: Rodrigo Amaado, John Baxter, Rebecca Beckett, Robin Borchardt, Danielle Brennan, Sarah Chalberg, Courtney Cook, Jessica Deutchman, Kate Drew (Captain), Christina Dyer (Captain), Chris Goode, Elizabeth Graves, Mike Hare, Tammy Heino, Tim Herzog, Elizabeth Hocker, Liza Hughes, Stan Hvatt, Will James, Kevin Jewitt, Kristen Jones, Scott Leppert (Captain), Kerry Lynaugh, John Murphv, Kerry Murphv, Liz Potter, Ruchi Puri, Matt Reynolds, Mindv Schaefer, Paul Stoeken, Scott Thomson, Willem Van Waay, Mike Weingard Head Coach: Adam Werblow Asst. Coaches: Bill Healv, Tim Healv
Swimming
PHOTO BY GREG COAN
Men's Team: Christian Benjaminson, Steve Butts (Captain), Jason Choate, Steven Crowther, Glenn Humphrey (Captain), John Garner, Larry Kemp, Doug Loyd, Stephen McCullough, Ross McKim, Damian Noordhoorn, Rob O'Haver, Stuart Patterson, Dave Sherwood, Brian Tenney Women's Team: Marv Augustine, Chervl Bauman, Beckv Beckett (Cap- tain), Robin Borchardt, Jenn Gering, Michelle Goodwin, Paula Goodwin (Captain), Sarah Gray, Emily Grimes, Paola Hayes, Karen Mareiro, Domi- nique Monie, Carianne Schaffer, Abbv Smigell, Amanda Smith, Julianna Thirolf, Murial VanDenBerg (Captain) Head Coach: Rich Godbout Asst. Coaches: Bill Moore, Larry Jackson
Men's Overall Record: 4-5 Men's C.A.C. Record: 4-3
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Women's Overall Record:
6-5-1 Women's C.A.C Record: 5-3
Sailing Highlights
• MAISA Women's Single-handed Champs at Navy, 1st place
• ICYRA Women's Single-handed National Champs at MIT, 1st place
• ICYRA Single-handed National Champs at St. Mary's College, 8th place
• Varsity Atlantic Coasts at St. Mary's College, 8th place
• Women's Atlantic Coasts at Harvard University, 1st place
• Freshman Atlantic Coasts at Old Domin- ion University, 1st place
• ICYRA Women's National Champions
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TENNIS
'INNIS
Men's Tennis
PHOTO BY GREG COAN
Team:David Cabrera (Captain), Jason Choate, Michael Colaresi, James Cooney, Christopher Delandv, Daniel Hadley, Daniel Hunt, Brian Kennedy, Harold Lee (Captain), Eric Olsen, Matthew Sedlak Head Coach: Paul Spencer
Overall Record: 6-5 C.A.C. Record: 4-3
PHOTO BY GREG COAN
Women's Tennis
Team: Jin Chong (Captain), Meha Desai, Maisha Douvon, Kellie Doyle, Nicki Fusaro, Avery Johnson, Jaime Powell, Cheryl Wadhuwa (Captain), Melissa Canlas, Marcie Pomeroy Head Coach: Paul Spencer Asst. Coach: Robin
Overall Record: 3-10 C.A.C. Record: 1-4
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PHOTO BY EUNICE AIKINS-AFFUL
Break, the men's lacrosse team traveled to
During Sprin
England and broke their routine of playing CAC teams
PHOTO BY COSTA SCYENCE
Women's Lacrosse
Team: Carrie Supik, Missy Lewandowski, Kristi Miller, Nicole Parker, Jen Riffle, Allison Wagner, Kristi LaVardera, Tina Wasovvicz, Marion Ticknor, Misty Uhlfelder, Maia Kinigopoulos, Marni Lindquist, Amy Everest, Jen Jackson, Courtney Hackett, Linda Papavasiliou, Neasah O'Doherty, Marie Johnson, Erin Shutes (Captain), Suzanne DeHaan (Captain), Lisa DeMeno (Captain), Angie Castro Head Coach: Tammy Gage, 1995 All- Capital Athletic Conference Coach of the Year
PHOTO BY RACHEL SUSSMAN
A St. Mary's hitter swings into action.
Baseball Overall Record: 15-18-0
C.A.C.
Record:
4-6-0
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Men's
Team: Matthew Madsen, Josh Bank, Dave Wenrich, Aidan Surlis, Aron Peters, Lawrence Lanahan, Jeff LaNoue, Mark Anderson, Ben Davis, Marty Kane, Graham Johnson, Doug Fisher, Greg Foti, James Mohler (Captain), Tim Barlotta, Mark Osterman, Steve Spence (Captain), Doug Stark, Mike Fraioli, Pete Dixon, Jeff Mohler, Eric Blind, Justin Robinson, Jason Dudderar, J. P. Fischer, Chris Gress, Daemian Schreiber, Brooks Liswell, Joe Hughes, Jim Rogalski
Head Coach: Jason Hurley, 1995 All-Capital Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, Asst. Coach: Ken Weingrad
Men's Overall Record: 10-2 Men's C.A.C. Record: 3-2
Women's Overall Record: 8-4 Women's C.A.C. Record: 0-3
PHOTO BY COSTASCYENCE
Basebal
Team: Brian Lopez (Captain), Alan Baker, Ian Taylor, Justin Greshko, Dave Mummert, Mike Hughes, Clint Pipkin, Dave Layman, Doug Shipley, Dylan Trache, Rich McNaul, Chris Pinkerton, Brian Carroccio, Spike Altman, Gordon Hawley, Jonathan Allen, Mike Lerner Head Coach: Lew Jenkins Asst. Coach: Jim Mason
Women's eight of SMC Crew. Cox: Giana Dusch; stroke: Jessie Eldridge; 7 through 2: Laura Zumbrun, Laura Henry, Libby Killinger, Kate Wikander, Chrissy Gray, Jen Rhode 32 and vow: Tracie Papantones;
Above: Jessie Eldridge of SMC Crew (What a strong woman!)
Leadership Development : From left to right, Sean Joyner, Christian Benjaminson, Trish Cray, Carrie Kennedy, Kim Dennis, Kali Butler, Erin Frankel,, Kareb Schroll, Sidney, Vanessa Powells and Tia Overby (sitting).
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Back : Erik Norland, Kevin Shannon, Andy Ellis.
Front : Rachel Foster, Lisa Voso, Jennifer Mott.
Clubs
Jeanne Fryburger Vote Avatar Reading (above and left)
SMC Men's Group, always entertaining.
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Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein orders his troops to the border ol oil-rich Kuwait. The U.S. sends 350 warplanes to the area to support the Kuwaiti lorces. By October 11 , Hussein orders the withdrawal of most ol his forces.
Russian President Boris Yeltsin calls out his poorly trained military to subdue a rebellion in Chechnya, a southern republic the size of Connecticut. Critics accuse Yeltsin ol resorting to total- itarian methods of the old communist Soviet regime to keep the shaky Russian Federation unified.
Europe's worst flood in this century kills at least 30 people across Europe. Inland floods caused by melting Alpine snow and relentless rains hit Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, whose famous dike system begins to crumble late in January 1995 in the face of rampaging rivers. Dutch authorities evacuate 250,000 people from the lowlands.
Camilla Parker Bowles, allegedly Prince Charles' mistress, announces her divorce from her husband, Andrew Parker Bowles. Princess Diana is said to be negotiating a divorce from Charles, who will be free to remarry without giving up the throne— unless unhappy subjects force a referendum on the monarchy.
More than 900 passengers die. 140 are rescued when the Estonia, a 15.500-ton Baltic terry sinks oh the coast of Finland in a violent nighttime storm. The storm's 30-tool waves swamp the ship which lists and sinks in a matter of minutes.
After a peasant uprising in Chiapas and two major political murders. Mexico gets a new president. Ernesto Zedillo, an economist, assumes office only to face a stockmarket crash, a ruined economy, and a loss of international confidence in the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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n July 25, U.S. President Bill Clinton welcomes King Hussein of Jordan, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to the White House, where the two sign a historic nonaggression pact that ends a 46-year state of belligerency between Israel and Jordan.
Conservative religious groups and those who believe in individual rights clash over issues of education for women and family planning at the U.N. International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt, September 5-
When their Army helicopter acciden- tally strays into North Korea in December. Chief Warrant Officers Bobby Wayne Hall and David Hilemon are shot down by the communists. Washington does not admit to espionage as the North Koreans want, but negotiates for survivor Bobby Hall's release by expressing its sincere regret over the intrusion.
Tipper Gore, wife of U.S. Vice President Al Gore, visits Rwandan refugee camps in Zaire in July. Thousands of refugees, fleeing ethnic conflict in Rwanda, die of cholera, dysentery, and other infectious diseases. Fresh water supplied by the United States military greatly reduces the number of cholera deaths.
Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasir Arafat returns to Palestine in July 1994 after 27 years of exile in Tunisia. Arafat kisses the ground in the Gaza Strip, now a Palestinian autonomous zone under the terms of a 1993 peace accord with Israel.
Millions of South Africans travel weary hours and wait in mile-long lines to vote in the first all-race elections. After more than a century of white rule, the voters choose former political prisoner Nelson Mandela to preside over the dismantling of apartheid.
Jimmy Carter, former U.S. president and self-styled global troubleshooter for peace, negotiates on behalf of the U.S. in Haiti, Bosnia, and North Korea. He even offers to help settle the baseball strike.
In Japan, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 collapses buildings, derails trains, buckles elevated expressways, and causes fires throughout the city of Kobe. Over 5,000 people are killed and 26,000 injured. The Japan quake occurs January 17, 1995, one year to the day after a quake devastated Los Angeles.
U.S. President Bill Clinton, right, and British Prime Minister John Major take part in ceremonies in June 1994 at a military cemetery during the 50th anniversary commem- oration of the Allied D-Day invasion of Europe, the event that sealed the fate of Nazi Germany during World War II.
Chinese school children, dressed to look like Colonel Sanders, welcome the president of Kentucky Fried Chicken to Shanghai in May 1994. Few of the country's many foreign business ventures thrive, but KFC becomes a Chinese favorite. The finger- Nckin enterprise makes plans to expand its outlets from 28 to 200.
A triumphant Jean- Bertrand Aristide reclaims his position as president and restores democracy to Haiti with the help of U.S. troops. Haiti had suffered under the rule of a military junta led by General Raoul Cedras, who goes into exile after reaching an agreement with U.S. mediators.
In one of the most successful antiterrorist operations in aviation history, French commandos storm an Air France jet-liner and kill four Algerian hijackers, freeing the plane ' s 173 passengers and crew.
India suffers an outbreak of pneumonic plague, carried by flea-infested vermin. Workers in Bombay earn five rupees for each exterminated rat; one thousand rat-tails earns a color TV.
Thousands of Cubans flee their economically depressed homeland, hoping for a better life in America. Many set off on homemade rafts and other small vessels only to be intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard. The United States and Cuba reach an agreement in September that allows 20,000 Cuban immigrants to enter the United States each year.
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Angeles earthquake and the southern California wildfires of 1993, California experiences more natural disasters in January 1995 when rainstorms cause Hooding that kills 11 people and leaves 3,000 others homeless. Flooding is so high in Santa Barbara, fun-seeking teenagers dive off a freeway overpass into 15 feet of water. President Clinton declares 34 counties federal disaster areas.
In 1994, the U.S. registers a one-year population growth of 2.7 million. One-third of the increase is due to immigration, the largest such influx since 1914.
Author and humanities professor, Ralph Ellison, dies at age 80. His 1952 novel, Invisible Man, has been called the most powerful novel written about alienation, identity, and racism in America.
A huge increase in killings by 14- to 24-year-olds raises the nation's homicide rate, while violence blamed on preteens rocks communities nationwide. A boy. 13. is sentenced to life for strangling a four-year-old. In Chicago, an 11-year-old boy kills a 14-year-old girl and is then executed by his own gang, in Washington state a pair of 12-year-olds shoot a migrant worker.
Called the Republican revolution, November mid-term elections put the Republican party and its anti-big
overnment platform in control of Congress for the first time in K) years. Georgia's Newt Gingrich, author of the GOP's "Contract with America," is the new Speaker of the House.
The prosecution seeks the death penalty in the case of Susan Smith, who dupes the nation with a frightening tale of the abduction of her two little boys. The community's early support grows quickly to hatred when Smith confesses to murder- she sent her children to their deaths at the bottom of a lake.
The volunteers for Silent March bring shoes from every state for one of the quietest demonstrations to ever take place in Washington, DC Each empty pair of shoes repre- sents one of the more than 40,000 Americans who have been killed by handguns.
Despite powerful National Rifle Association lobby efforts, Congress passes a crime bill banning the sale of 19 types of assault weapons. The Brady Law goes into effect; in one month 25,610 people with criminal records are denied the purchase of a handgun.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration blasts the tobacco company executives at a congressional hearing in March 199A for denying that nicotine, a drug found in cigarette smoke, is addictive. Tobacco industry workers fear losing their jobs if the FDA succeeds in classifying and restricting cigarettes as a drug.
The Flint River overflows, washing coffins out of a Georgia cemetery after torrential rains from tropical storm Alberto flood Georgia and the Florida-Alabama panhandle. Thirty-two people die, 40,000 are temporarily homeless, and 10.000 square miles are underwater, causing $100 million in crop damage.
Former football star O.J. Simpson is charged with the June 12th stabbing death of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman, causing a non-stop media avalanche. The sensational case famil- iarized watchers with spouse abuse, a tele- vised ride in a white Ford Bronco. "Kato" Kaelin, and DNA testing. Simpson faces the jury in January.
A rare white buffalo named Miracle draws crowds to the humble Wisconsin farm where it was born August 20. Native Americans believe the calf is the fulfillment of a Lakota Sioux prophecy. Five hundred years ago, White Buffalo Woman told her people that she would return as a white calf to usher in a new age of harmony between all races of mankind.
President Clinton, with Republican leader Bob Dole, signs legislation implementing the U.S. role in an expanded General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), one of the most sweeping trade liberal- ization pacts in history. The legislation makes the U.S. a member of a new 125-member World Trade Organization. Protectionists worry that GATT may promote world trade but won't sufficiently protect American jobs.
The Secret Service considers restricting public access to the White House after a gunman fires 27 rounds at the building's facade in October. In September, a small Cessna airplane crashes on the South Lawn and comes to rest at the base of the White House below President Clinton's bedroom, killing the pilot.
The U.S. Interior Department moves the bald eagle from Its endangered species list to the less critical "threatened" category. The Pacific Northwest's spotted owl is left to fend for itself when in June a federal judge lifts the 1991 injunction that halted logging in the owl's habitat.
The fossil of a previously unknown dinosaur, the 25-foot- long Cryolophosaurus ellioti. is
found in Antarctica.
Despite a so-called fitness craze, the National Center for Health Statistics confirms the American overabundance of food combined with a sedentary lifestyle is creating an epidemic of obesity. Since 1980, the number of over- weight adults has ballooned to one-third of the population, with an alarming increase among children.
Some of the 599 newly revealed secret ingredients major cigarette-makers add to improve taste and texture: beeswax, butter, carrot oil, citronella oil, cocoa shells, corn silk, dandelion root extract. 31 chemicals that start with ethyl, oak chip oil. vinegar, and dimethyltetra- hydrobenzofuranone.
Three planets are discovered orbiting a pulsar star 3.000 light-years away in the constellation Virgo. One is the size of the moon and two are three times more massive than Earth; all are rocky worlds without an atmosphere.
NASA's space shuttle mission 64 tests the operations of a Simplified Aid For Extravehicular Activity Rescue (SAFARI device. Crew member Mark Lee maneuvers successfully outside the Discovery, while Carl Meade photographs him against the background of Earth
Martin Hodbell and Alfred Gilman are awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing a model of cell communication =< that has ® ^
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Autostereograms, popularly known as Magic Eye, cause legions of people to stare cross-eyed for long periods of time. Based on a mystery j' ) of neurology and 3-D objects, pattern elements fuse into left-eye and right-eye images of a single hidden object which appears to be floating.
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the Food and Drug Administration institutes new food labeling on almost all foods in response to consumer protest against the many misleading claims of food producers. The new readable labels provide realistic serving sizes, list calories from fat, and allow you to compare different nutrient values.
In Ethiopia, anthro- pologists discover the skull of a human ancestor, Australopithecus ramidus, 4.4 million years old. The new species has features midway between apes and humans and promises to provide clues to still earlier evolutionary stages.
Japan's "Love Love Simulation" computer program allows couples to take a / non-scientific look at future offspring by digitally combining their own photos to predict a child's appearance.
Astronomers wait at every major telescope in the world to see the historic cosmic crack-up of the 21 big fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 as it smacks into the atmosphere of Jupiter at 134.000 miles an hour. Plumes of fire shoot up hundreds of miles, high enough to become visible to telescopes on Earth.
Internet activity rises sharply as surfers find their way around the information f^ superhighway . Advertisers, rock music reviewers, the worldly Voice of America, and others decide it's time to jump on.
NASA publishes a new report supporting the theory that a giant comet hit Earth 65 million years ago and vaporized 100 billion tons of sulphur to create the cloud barrier that froze Earth's atmosphere and killed the dinosaurs.
A long-term study of radial keratotomy finds it generally safe and effective. For the nearsighted, tiny spokelike incisions into the eye improve focusing ability and eliminate the need for eyeglasses. The patient is awake for the procedure.
A cave is found in southern France, full of 300 vivid paintings of woolly-haired rhinos, bears, mammoths, panthers, and owls made about 20.000 years ago. The Stone Age artists also left behind bear skulls, flint knives, footprints, and fireplaces. Experts call it the archaeological find of the century.
the non-violent CD-ROM game Myst by Cyan. Inc. becomes a best-selling phenomenon, winning legions of devoted fans and spawning imitators. The fantasy-adventure's graphic visuals are hyper- real: the written word is the key to the mystery.
One of Lake Superior's enduring mysteries is solved by scientists and marine historians who explore the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore carrier that sank with its crew in a 1975 storm. The ship, overused and in poor condition, was ripped apart by 90-mph winds and 30-foot waves. Most of the 29 crewmen are entombed inside the wreckage, well preserved in the 39° waters.
Cutbacks in military spending force the U.S. Navy to reduce its elite 100-dolphin fleet trained for use in sonar research, mine sweeping, and underwater recov- ery. Too tame to be released in the open sea, the veterans of conflicts from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf retire to aquariums and water parks.
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The most popular names for newborns this year are Ashley and Michael.
Young people serve their country by volunteering under a new program called AmeriCorps, where 20,000 people aged 17 and up work with community-based organizations in exchange lor $7,500 plus money toward college tuition or loans.
One percent of the nation's 50 million school-age children learn at home as families seek alternatives to public schools. In a handful of high-tech experiments, kids submit homework by modem, download books and artwork from the Internet, and collaborate on academic projects with other children around the world.
A survey ol college kids reveals their favorite sources of sugar and caffeine during all-night studying to be: powdered iced tea, peanut butter mixed with marsh- mallow cream, baby food, ramen noodles, raw cookie dough, and trail mix made from chocolate chips, graham cracker bits, and mini marshmallows.
A lively new cafe society centers around the 5,000 gourmet coffeeshops which spring up around the country. To the often young and trendy patrons, the social interaction is just as important as the espresso. Some cafes offer lull-time Internet links so patrons can sip and chat with other Internet latte-drinkers.
Besides recycled clothing like license- plate bustiers, bottle-cap jewelry, trash-bag and duct- tape dresses, fashion trends include the schoolgirl look with thigh-highs, and the grunge-turned-beatnik look of long, straight hair and a goatee.
Anew survey shows that over 12 million Americans are vegetarians, choosing the no-meat lifestyle because of concern about animal cruelty, cost-efficiency, eco- friendliness and/or improved health and fitness.
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The hottest merchandise around is Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, so hot Cabbage Patch dolls pale in comparison. Parents criticize Fox's super-violent TV show, but their kids crave Dragon Daggers, Megazords, and the 4-foot, $230 battery powered car. "Go, go, Power Rangers!"
A hot new collectible derives from an old household item. Milk caps, known in some regions as pogs, originally capped the bottles left by the milkman but have now gone funky with colorful printed designs and variations that are traded and used in games.
Although most are forced to settle for Oakley wrap- arounds, stylin' kids, like in-line skaters and urban youth, clamor for Arnet's $80 Ravens with the silver- chrome frames.
Led by brash young skate and surf types, two million snowboarders nationwide discover the joy of swooping down slopes on one board instead of two. No hard boots, no poles, no crossed tips, make it easier than skiing. Since their giant frozen wave is a ski hill, snowboarders annoy old-style skiers who want their slopes left undisturbed by shredders.
The first generation to ignore colas in favor of fruit drinks, today's young people give Snapple popular cult status. The trend breeds juice wars as Snapple imitators like Fruitopia vie for youth market shares and inundate the airwaves with Generation X-type advertising.
Pope John Paul II authors Crossing the Threshold of Hope, a blend of theology, evangelizing and personal remininiscene. It becomes a best-seller in 35 countries.
Remaining a virgin in the face of peer pressure finds new respect among teens who defend their freedom to forgo sex in a sex-crazy world. The movement is both a demand for real love and a reaction against unwanted pregnancy and health risks, since today one out of four kids are infected with sexually transmitted diseases by the age of 21 .
It's called "the year of the cottage industry" as more Americans adopt different work arrangements in response to corporate downsizing, either by telecommuting or starting businesses out of their homes.
Kool-Aid makes a cheap hair-dye, an alternative to bleached hair with, say, Prizm Blue added for sheen. The "city fade" shaves the sides of your head and leaves the top longer, and the matted hair look is achieved by leaving the soap in and forgetting to comb.
The designer pets of the year are African pigmy hedgehogs, and some 3,000 find homes with humans. They are gentle, like to be petted, and need a once-a- day feeding of pet food or mealworms. They don't smell and will even eat your roaches.
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John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson star In Pulp Fiction, an "extravagantly demented low-life lalapalooza with outlandish twists." The film's plot revolves around a watch, a briefcase, and a large syringe in a darkly humorous scene which reportedly causes a few audience members with needle-phobia to fall out of their seats in revulsion.
John Candy, the large and lovable star of films Splash. Cool Runnings, Home Alone, and many other family favorites, dies at the age of 43. Whether Candy played jerks, slobs or loonies, his natural goodness came shining through.
With a tried-but-true storyline, the TV show "Me and the Boys," becomes an immediate family favorite, with stand-up comic Steve Harvey playing a widower who's left to raise three lively sons singlehandedly.
Life is like a box of chocolates," says its title character. Forrest Gump, starring Tom Hanks, surprises everyone with its popularity, attributed to the audiences' thirst for the film's theme of simple values and good intentions. v: Fascinating special effects place Gump into real news footage with U.S. presidents.
Reality-based tele- vision programs rule the tube with "Cops," "American Detective," "FBI: The Untold Stories," "Top Cops," and "Rescue 911." "America's Most Wanted" and "Unsolved Mysteries" enlist viewers' help in tracking down N fugitives.
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Comedian Jim Carrey's career is s-s-smokin'. In The Mask, Carrey plays shy Stanley Ipkiss, who discovers that a mythical mask can turn him into a very cool green-faced cartoon-like dude. While waiting for seguels to The Mask and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Carrey fans enjoy current hit Dumb and Dumber.
Shameless prime-time soap opera "Melrose Place," co-starring Heather Locklear and Grant Show, attracts legions of fans with its silly-sensational plotlines and shallow-but- beautiful characters. Fans even buy the TV show's soundtrack and "MP" clothing.
Tom Cruise bites as the elegantly evil vampire Lestat in the film based on Anne Rice's novel Interview With the Vampire. Brad Pitt costars in the story that's been a favorite with millions of readers for twenty years.
Comic Margaret Cho stars in the first all- Asian sitcom "All- American Girl," about a college girl who's not making enough money to move away from home and has to live with her rigidly traditional Korean immigrant parents.
The animals aren't cuddly, but Disney's 32nd animated feature The Lion King is still a box-office smash and a sure classic. The story of a young lion, Simba, on the path to maturity combines five Tim Rice/Elton John songs with comedy that leaves audiences roaring. Just say "Hakuna matata," Swahili for "no worries."
Living Single" is hailed as a New York City version of "Designing Women." The comedy is about four women who share a big apartment, and features Kim Fields and rap star Queen Latifah, whose quiet presence and dignity singles her out as a star.
Talented young Claire Danes stars as a savvy 15-year-old confronting adolescent anxieties in the ABC television series "My So- Called Life," which receives critical acclaim. Danes also stars in the movie Little Women, with Winona Ryder.
This year's Emmy for best comedy series goes to TV's "Frasier," the story of a radio psychi- atrist with a dysfunctional family. Star of the critical and main-stream hit, Kelsey Grammer dedicates his best-actor award to the dog "Eddie" whose off- screen name is Moose.
After his villain in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and his title role in Bertolucci's Little Buddha, actor Keanu Reeves buffs up to play an action star in Speed, about a bomb and a runaway bus, one of the year's biggest box office hits.
With the first female starship captain, TV's "Star Trek: Voyager" is the newest offshoot of the enduring Star Trek phenomenon, after "Deep Space Nine," "The Next Generation," and this year's full- length feature Star Trek: Generations.
Although his action fans may prefer True Lies, Arnold Schwarzenegger, with co-star Danny DeVito. cracks up audiences in Junior, where the strongman plays a boringly-serious scientist who tests a fertility drug on himself, learns the joys of motherhood, and falls in love with the baby's mom, Emma Thompson.
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Baywatch," the world's most-watched syndicated TV show, is a feel-good action/adventure about a Malibu lifeguard, played by David Hasselhoff. Sunny beach scenes take the pressure off plot or character development. In tribute to its popularity, Mattel. Inc. creates Baywatch Barbie.
Lou Gehrig's last day, Sandy Koufax on the mound, and Jackie Robinson's arrival are all part of the Ken Burns film "Baseball," an 18 1/2-hour historical mini-series on PBS. "Baseball" touches on American issues of race, labor, immigration, the role of women, urban renewal, popular media, and the nature of heroes and mythology.
Hoop Dreams is a documentary about two young Chicago athletes who dream of playing in the NBA. Arthur Agee and William Gates soon realize the dream will have to come at the expense of everything else. Hoop Dreams offers as much drama, excitement, and emotional ups and downs as anything to come out of Hollywood.
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After (heir Woodstock '94 performance scores them mass adulation and an onstage mudfight. punk-pop trio Green Day wins the title for this year's best new band. Their album Dookie, featuring "Basket Case," goes triple platinum.
LPs make a comeback when major recording labels give in to pressure from artists and fans. New titles are released on vinyl, as well as CDs and tapes. Pronounced dead in the '80s, the revived 12-inch long- plays come complete with the art-covered sleeves and lyric- sheet inserts that make them collector's items.
Liz Phair follows up Exile in Guy w/te with Whip-smart and songs like "Super Nova" and "Jealousy." Her music is said to be about sell-parody, defensiveness, beautiful flaws, and cluelessness.
Futuristic noise mavens Nine Inch Nails and singer Trent Reznor drive home a point with their "Closer" single and hit video, from their album 77>e Downward Spiral.
Mosh pit heroes Bad Religion get plenty of play with "21st Century Bay" and their album Stranger Than Fiction.
Beastie Boys release their fourth hip-hop album /// Communication on the heels of their highly popular Check Your Head.
Superunknown. a 70-minute, 15-song opus, debutes at No.1 on the Billboard charts. Fans and critics say it's the best record of metal band Soundgarden's career.
Music, moshing, and lots of mud define Woodstock '94. The 25th anniversary of the original 1969 "summer of love" has ATMs, Pepsi, and '90s prices: $135 tickets and $4 hamburgers. After happily grooving to every- thing from Bob Dylan to Nine Inch Nails, 350,000 fans depart peacefully.
Singer Sheryl Crow hits paydirt with her debut album, Tuesday Night Music Club with the seed y- but-upbeat sounds of "Leaving Las Vegas" and "All I Want to Do."
odeci. two pairs of brothers whose funky ballads coined the term "Feenin," bring gospel harmonies to their new album Diary ola Mad Band, which goes platinum.
They dress alike and rule Motown. It seems like Boyz II Men only makes mega-hits, like "On Bended Knee" and Til Make Love to You." Their second album. //, goes straight to No. 1 ontheR&B charts.
With quirky lyrics and bass-voiced singing on hits like 'Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm," the Crash Test Dummies' album, God Shuttled His Feet, becomes a chart-topper in the U.S. and Europe.
Although Madonna's bad-mannered appear- ance on Letterman begets criticism, her album Bedtime Stories, with hits "Take a Bow" and "Secret," is a solid chart-topper.
Pop-siren Janet Jackson's body language and lyrics draw large concert crowds to see her perform hits like "You Want This/70's Love Groove." Jackson wins an MTV Music Award for her video "If."
Singer Vince Gill makes country music history by winning the Country Music Association's award for top male vocalist four years in a row. The CMA also awards him 1994 Entertainer of the Year.
eattle rock band Pearl Jam and front man Eddie Vedder > give youthful angst a good name as they rock hard with ' their third album, Vitalogy, considered their strongest yet.
Nominated for best female vocalist, country singer Mary Chapin Carpenter croons at the Country Music Awards ceremony, but loses to Pam Tillis. Carpenter's album Stones in the Road lops the country charts.
It's a year of hits for buzz band. Gin Blossoms. Their top- selling album New Miserable Experience, covers "Hey Jealousy," "Found Out About You," and "Until I Fall Away."
EMI Records releases Live at the BBC a two-disc set of radio concerts recorded by the Beatles in the early '60s. "Free as a Bird," an original unfinished track by the late John Lennon, is finished, mixed with the live voices of Paul, George, and Ringo, and included in the set.
The rock-spectacle Rolling Stones tour, named after their album Voodoo Lounge, combines a light show, computer animation, video blowups, and gigantic inflatable props. Millions watch the Stones prance through their classic and current hits like "Love Is Strong." Voodoo Lounge becomes the highest grossing tour in history with $115 million in ticket sales.
Dismissed as kiddie artists, three 12-year- old rappers who go by the name of Immature, get a new sound. Album Playtime Is Over and hits "Never Lie" and "Constantly" pump them up to stardom.
Hailed as the crown prince of reggae, Buju Banton's album, Buju Banton: Voice ot Jamaica, pumps the party with "Walk Like a Champion" and "Man a LookYuh."
Hit single "Cryin"' wins MTV's Video of the Year award for singer Steven Tyler and metal band Aerosmith, who ride a wave of success and release their new album Big Ones.
The Canadian band Cowboy Junkies, whose big hit this year is "Sweet James," sings of isolation and despair on their latest album Pale Sun/Crescent Moon.
Powered to the top with their pure pop sound. Swedish quartet Ace of Base tops the charts with The Sign. Their sound is a contagious blend of reggae-splashed pop known as "China Reggae."
JMascis emerges as a prolific and versatile songwriter for the punk-rock band Dinosaur Jr. with "Outta Hand" and major hit "Feel the Pain." both on their latest album Without a Sound.
The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos release their CD, Chant. Heavy rotation on MTV turns the collection of ancient Gregorian chants into an un- expected best-seller.
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rish rock foursome, the Cranberries, tour the United States playing the sad, pretty melodies from their second hit album. No Need to Argue.
Rappers with a self- reliant attitude, Salt-N-Pepa keep their Very Necessary vibe going this year with hits "Snoop" and "Whatta Man" which wins them, along with En Vogue, an MTV Music Award.
Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg's performance makes the movie soundtrack Above the Rim a best-seller. His video "It's a Doggy Dogg World," which reunites all the 70s black exploitation film stars, wins an MTV Music Award.
Ranked No.1 , the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers finish their unbeaten season by defeating the Miami Hurricanes to win the national title. Quarterback Tommie Frazier earns MVP honors by guiding the Huskers to two fourth- quarter touchdowns and a frenetic 24-17 victory.
She was a pro at 13, a million- aire at 14, and out of the game at 17. After getting booked on charges of marijuana posses- sion, tennis star Jennifer Capriati enters a drug rehab program and makes a comeback in autumn where she plays well but loses her first-round match.
Former Wimbledon champ Andre Agassi wins the 1994 U.S. Open and beats cham- pion Pete Sampras at the 1995 Australian Open. Called the most popular tennis player in the world, the tennis phenom has a new girlfriend, former model Brooke Shields.
The National Hockey League plays only 48 of the 82 games in the season this year due to a lockout. Following baseball's example, hockey owners put salary caps on their players, who strike but lose out to the owner's rule.
Track and field star Wilma Rudolph dies at the age ol 54. The 20th of 22 children, she overcame polio, scarlet fever, and pneumonia to become a basketball star at 13. an Olympic bronze medalist at 16. and a winner of three gold medals in the 1960 Rome Olympics.
Whenever the Magic, led by 7*1" 300-pound Shaquille O'Neal, score 110 points, the Orlando McDonald's restaurants redeem home game tickets for a free Big Mac. With the team selling out all 16,000 seats, the Golden Arches supply a massive Mac attack, consoling fans for the lack of a playoff victory.
The high rate of early burnout in women's pro tennis from media pressure, trainers, and sponsors causes the parents of Venus Williams, 14, to delay her pro debut.
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itchman George Foreman, 45, wearing the same red trunks he sported when he fought Muhammad AM 20 years earlier, wins the world's heavyweight boxing title from Michael Moorerwith a 10th round knockout.
Having already announced her retirement from singles tennis, nine-time Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova waves good-bye to an emotional crowd, after losing to Conchita Martinez in her last Wimbledon match.
In July, Miguel Indurain of Spain makes a triumphant entry on the Champs Elysees in Paris to win the Tour de France for the fourth straight time. He wins the 3-week, 3,218 km contest easily, finishing five minutes, 39 seconds ahead of the field. Greg LeMond, the only American to win the Tour de France three times, retires from racing because of health problems.
On June 14, the New York Rangers defeat the Vancouver Canucks 3 to 2 in the seventh game of the Stanley Cup play-offs, winning the coveted hockey cup for the first time in 54 years.
The Centennial Olympics will be in Atlanta, Georgia in 1996. The city will emphasize its multicultural aspects to honor athletes from around the world.
Dara Torres-Gowen becomes the first Olympic swimmer to model swimsuits in the Sports Illustrated annual swimsuit issue. Gold- medalist Torres-Gowen s sporty looks break the "waifs and glamazons" mold dictated by fashion.
Fans are openly angry when a dispute between players and team owners over salary caps and other issues threatens to shut down baseball. A work stoppage begins on August 12. and no World Series is played for the first time since 1904.
Tonya Harding, barred for life from organized skating for obstructing justice in the investigation of an assault on Nancy Kerrigan, is offered $2 million by the All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling Association to wrestle as a baddie.
In Super
Bowl XXIX
in Miami,
the San
Francisco
4-9ers beat the
San Diego Chargers
49-26, in their
record-breaking fifth
Super Bowl win.
Quarterback Steve
Young passes for a
record six touchdowns
to win most valuable
player.
Basketball star Sheryl Swoopes leads the U.S. women's basketball team to a gold medal at the Goodwill Games in Russia. Earlier she led Texas Tech to an NCAA title and signed an endorsement deal with Nike.
After 52 wins, four PPG Cup titles, and $10 million in earnings. Indycar champion Mario Andretti races for the final time in his 31-year career. The four-time Indianapolis 500 champion retires in October 1994.
Ernie Els wins the 1994 U.S. Open golf tournament in sudden- death playoff. The U.S. women's golf team, led by Dottie
Mochrie, beats
Europe for the 1994 Solheim Cup.
orld Cup soccer comes to the U.S. for the first time: 24 teams play 52 World Cup games in nine cities to 3,567.415 fans, culminating in a title match between Brazil and Italy. Earlier the U.S. upset Colombia, but lost to the Brazilian team, who went on to win the cup.
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Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, 85, who wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Watte, the landmark 1973 case that guaranteed a woman's legal right to abortion, announces his retirement from the court after 24 years.
The Charles and Diana fairy- tale-turned-sordid-soap continues: A German news- paper prints nude photos ol Prince Charles; he publishes a confession saying he never loved his wife. Princess Diana is suspected of making crank phone calls; an old friend who claims to be her ex-lover hawks a trashy kiss-and-tell book.
Tabitha the cat spends 12 days and 32,000 miles in the fuse- lage of a Tower Air 747 jet when she escapes her cat carrier and gets lost in the cargo hold. Tabitha makes television appearances after her rescue with her aspiring-actress owner. Tabitha lost two pounds during the ordeal, her owner lost six.
The Florida judge would not allow Paul Hill to use justi- fiable homicide as a defense in the shootings of Dr. John Britton and his bodyguard outside a Pensacola abortion clinic. Hill is lound guilty of murder in the first degree.
AnnaPaquin, 11, wins an Academy Award for her performance in The Piano. Says actor Gene Hackman. "I guess now you'll have no trouble getting cast in your school play."
Ronald Reagan, 83, announces he is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, which will cause him to rely increasingly on wife Nancy. Doctors say the easy-going ex-president should be able to function normally for several more years.
Despite hurled obscenities and death threats, Shannon Faulkner, 19, battles the all-male Citadel tor the right to become the first female cadet in the 152-year history of the state-supported South Carolina military school.
Sending a worthy message to pageant- watchers, Heather Whitestone. a deaf Alabama college junior who works with handicapped kids, is crowned 1994 Miss America by her predecessor Kimberly Aiken.
In Singapore, American teenager Michael Fay is convicted of vandalism and publicly caned four times by a martial arts master, despite pleas from his family and President Clinton.
Applying his new fame to good works, actor Antonio Banderas, of Philadelphia and Interview With the Vampire, spends a week on a goodwill mission helping UNICEF draw attention to wartorn Somalia.
Cartoonist Gary Larson announces that he will retire The Far Side, a feature that began in 1978 and has appeared in 1 ,500 newspapers.
THE FAR SIDE
By GARY LARSON
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Former basketball superstar Michai Jordan improves his game for the Arizona Scottsdale Scorpions, a minor-league baseball team. He still has no pi: to return to the hoops.
In about the most surprising event the year, Michae Jackson weds Elvis' dau ter, Lisa Marie Presley i secret ceremony, May 1' Journalists wonder if the union isn't a business arrangement or an alien to polish Michael's publi image, tarnished by clai of child molestation.
Scruffy movie idol Johnny Depp am wispy model Kat Moss have a headline- making lovers quarrel. I is arrested for trashing t couple's hotel room.
Model Cindy Crawl and actor Richar Gere, dubbed thi world's sexiest couple, announce their separatii Hollywood books Crawfc for her first movie.
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