South High 
Rebels 
Class Of 1981                        

 

     
Principal: Jeannine Thompson   A.S.B. President: Ramon Hendrix
Assistant Principal: Pete Algra

Assistant Principal: Elaine Jamison

Dean of Boys: Hal Eggleston

Dean of Girls: Judy Elkins

Counselors: David Fimbres, Rick Wright, Bob Lee, Sandra Neilsen, Don Cauthron, Paul Sheldon, Maizie Hill.

 

 

 

Rebel Rally

 

 

 

                                

 

 

 

 

   

 

   

'81 Rebel Sports

  Boys Varsity Basketball  
   

 

 

Girls Varsity Volleyball

 
   

 

 

Boys Varsity Baseball

 
   

 

 

Girls Varsity Baseball

 
   

Events of 1981

January 20 - Ronald Reagan succeeds Jimmy Carter, becoming the 40th President of the United States. Minutes later, Iran releases 52 Americans held 444 days.

March 6 - After 19 years hosting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.  

March 30 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.. Two police officers and Press Secretary James Brady are also wounded.  

May 13 - Pope John Paul II is shot and nearly killed by Mehmet Ali Ağca, a Turkish gunman, as he enters St. Peter's Square in Rome to address a general audience (2 days after Christmas in 1983, Pope John Paul goes to the prison to meet and forgive his would-be assassin).

June 5 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that 5 homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (the first recognized cases of AIDS

 June 12 - Major League Baseball goes on strike, forcing the cancellation of 38 percent of the schedule.

July 29 - Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince of Wales.  

August 5 - Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.

August 19 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan appoints the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor.  

November 23 - Iran-Contra scandal: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.  

Famous Births

January 3 - Eli Manning, American football player

April 28 - Jessica Alba, American actress

September 1 - Clinton Portis, American football player

September 4 - Beyoncé Knowles, American actress and singer (Destiny's Child)

September 26 - Serena Williams, American tennis player

December 2 - Britney Spears, American singer

 

Famous Deaths

April 12 - Joe Louis, American boxer (b. 1914)

May 11 - Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1945)

October 6 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated) (b. 1918)

November 16 - William Holden, American actor (b. 1918

November 29 - Natalie Wood, American actress (drowned) (b. 1938)

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