When the Cleveland Class of 1984 graduated, the Macintosh personal computer, launched in January, was starting to really take off.
“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” “The Natural,” and “Footloose” were among the top movies, and Deniece Williams’ “Let’s Hear it for the Boys” and Lionel Richie’s “Hello” topped the Billboard 100.
Pop stars, especially because of the influence of MTV, played a major role in spreading fashion trends. Bright colors, even neon, dominated.
A gallon of gas at Food N Fuel across the highway went for a buck 21.
A small but enthusiastic group of the class of 1984 and spouses attended its 40th reunion on Saturday in the Township Hall in downtown Cleveland.
It included, from L-R above, Liberty (Krusic) Simmons, Gary Wade, Deb Johnson, Andrea (Magoon) Fish, Brian Fasnacht, Rosmary (Walechka) Rusch, Ramona Malecha, Paul Schmidt, Lisa (Rogers) Koppelman, Greg Germsheid, Lori (Zabel) VanderHeiden, Tina (Cox) Shafer, Lisa Hankins, Brenda (Siebert) Krause, Laurie (Wolf) Cook and Eric Sime. Krusic and Sime left the class before 1984.
Other of the Class of 1984’s 29 members are: Chris Anderson, Lisa Dembouski, Tim Ely, Liz Hendley, Tammy Haack, Dan Hallock, Shelly Illian, Doug Johnson, Mary Krenik, Lisa LaBarr, Matt McCabe, Pam Muellerleile, Scott Olson, Ken Schmidt and Jim Traxler (deceased).
The football team had one win that year, but the volleyball team went 15-7. Boys basketball won seven games while the girls won a dozen. The baseball team went 0-10. Both boys and girls participated in track.
Rogers was homecoming queen while Ely was king. McCabe, Doug Johnson, Siebert and Muellerleile made up the royalty court.
Traxler won the Androli Award while Walechka took home the Athena Award.
Wolf was the key person who organized the reunion.
