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 High School Richfield, Minnesota - USA Class of 1981 |
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High School Richfield, Minnesota - USA Class of 1981 |
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The Year 1981:
- US-Iran agreement frees 2 hostages held in Teheran since 1979.
- Pope John Paul II wounded by gunman.
- Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat is assassinated.
- President Reagan is wounded by gunman.
- Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman nominated to the US Supreme Court.
- Air traffic controllers strike, disrupting flights.
- The Supreme Court rules to allow television cameras in the courtroom.
- AIDS is first identified.
- The FDA approves the use of the artificial sweetener aspartame (Nutrasweet).
- IBM introduces its first personal computer, running the Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS).
- Pacman-mania sweeps the country.
- MTV goes on the air with round the clock music videos.
- Kim Carnes' Bette Davis Eyes takes Record of the Year.
- The year's movies include Raiders of the Lost Ark, Chariots of Fire, On Golden Pond, and Reds.
- 1994 graduates enter kindergarten.
- 1999/2000 graduates are born.
- More 1981 events
Greetings Class of 1981! In August, 2006, the RHS class of 1981 had their reunion at the Embassy Suites. It was organized by a company in Oklahoma (?!) called "ReunionMakers." Well, it sounds like they took the money and ran. I was personally contacted (I live in Portland, OR!) by someone from RHS asking if I knew anything about that company, since they failed to pay up the hotel charges! Sounds like a scam to me... Their website is now defunct, also. A real shame. So for our next reunion, even though I live out West, I am very happy to coordinate the 30th reunion (in summer of 2011-- wow, sounds like the Space Age) to keep it more "intimate" and personal and cut out the middle man! It was GREAT to see all those former classmates even though it was a small group that actually attended (I think I heard a number like 85 out of 600-something). Let's make it great for our 30th! P.S. Prior to the reunion a friend and I went down memory lane with a drive through Richfield. It was very surreal, and sad for me, too. It has changed SO MUCH. (I haven't been through Richfield for many years since we moved West 10 years ago and my parents retired and moved up north after that). I would have never guessed it was the Richfield of my youth (except for the stretch along 66th from Portland Ave. down to Lyndale I guess, that all looked eerily similar). They say you can't go home again, but I tried anyway. |
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| In addition to this site, your class has a "sandbox" on the classreport.com RHS site at http://www.classreport.com/usa/mn/richfield/rhs/1981/ that Richard Cotterman is in charge of. Check it out! |
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| [Main RHS 1981 Page] [Main RHS Alumni Page] [Spotlite Spinoff] [Alumni Message Board] [Upcoming Reunions] [Reunion Resources] [Get Yourself On Here] [Get Your Class On Here] |
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