Looking Back at 1989

Pender High Class of 1989

Class Song: One Moment in Time

Class Valedictorian: Andy Ross

Class Salutatoran: Anne Tayor

Homecoming Queen: Crystal Lloyd

Class Officers: Amy McLamb, Jennifer Highsmith, Andrenna Green, Terri Hudson

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1989 US Statistics

President:  George Bush

Vice President:  J Danforth Quayle

1989 Economic Information

Population: 246,819,230    

US GDP (1998 dollars): $5,438.70 billion

Federal spending:  $1143.17 billion

Federal debt:   $2868.0 billion

Unemployment: 5.5%

Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.25

1989 Sporting Events

Major League Baseball

Oakland Althletic over San Francisco Giants, 4-0

NFL Football

Super Bowl XXIII

San Francisco 49ers over the Cincinatti Bengals, 20 to 16

NBA and NCAA Basketball

NBA-Detroit Pistons over LA Lakers, 4 games to 0

NCAA:-Michigan over Seton hall, 80 to 79

Boxing-Heavyweight champ Mike Tyson beats Frank Bruno in a 5th round TKO

Golf Tournament=Nick Faldo won the Masters

Entertainment Awards

Record of the year: Bette Midler, "Wind Beneath my Wings"

Album of the Year: Bonnie Raitt, Nick of Time

Oscars-Born on the Fourth of July, A. Kitman Ho and Olive stone, produces (universal)

Dead Poets Society, Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas, producers

Top 5 TV Shows of 1989

Roseanne, Cosby Show, Cheers, A Different World, America's Funny Home videos

Top 5 movies of 1989

Batman, Driving Miss Daisy, Ghostbusters 2, Honey I shrunk the Kids, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Top Songs of 1989

Look Away, Chicago

My Pregrogative, Bobby Brown

Every Rose Has its Thorn, Poison

Straight Up, Paula Abdul

Miss You Much, Janet Jackson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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