 Kenneth
L. Rose, Ph.D. (left) joins Henkels & McCoy and serves as Executive Vice
President and Chief Operating Officer, responsible for the operations of
Henkels & McCoy’s nationwide network of operating divisions. In 1987, he
will become President and COO and will be promoted to President and Chief
Executive Officer in 1992. As CEO he is responsible for business growth and
profitability. Prior to coming to Henkels & McCoy, Dr. Rose spent 20 years
with Ford Aerospace, starting as an individual technical contributor and
ultimately attaining the level of Group Vice President for space missions
and communications. Ken Rose will retire from Henkels & McCoy in 2003 but
will remain on the Board of Directors.
January 20
Ronald Reagan, 73, takes oath for second term as 40th president. He is the
nation's oldest Chief Executive.
 January
Super Bowl: San Francisco 49ers under Joe Montana defeat Miam Dolphins’ Dan
Marino (38-16).
February 20
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher addresses US Congress.
March 11
New Kid on the Bloc: USSR leader Chernenko dies at 73 and is replaced
by fresh faced kid Mikhail Gorbachev, 54 (right) .
March 12
Eugene Ormandy, beloved Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra passes
away, in his adopted Philadelphia.
 June 1
The streamlined, sleek, super-fast B1B Bomber is deployed (left).
June 14
Two Shi’ite Muslim extremist gunmen hijack a TWA airliner with 133 aboard,
104 of whom are US citizens.
 July 5
Dozens of top-name musicians and bands perform at the Live Aid concerts in
Philadelphia and London. The shows benefit African famine victims. Among the
high points of the show is Mick Jagger and Tina Turner’s steamy duet,
electrifying the crowd and ripping up the stage at JFK Stadium in South
Philly.
August 9
A retired US naval officer, Arthur James Walker, 50, is convicted by federal
judge of participating in Soviet spy ring operated by his brother, John
Walker.
October 7
PLO terrorists hijack an Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, with 80
passengers and crew. American passenger Leon Klinghoffer is killed the next
day when he is thrown overboard from his wheelchair.
October
World Series Kansas City Royals defeat regional rival St. Louis Cards (4-3).
November 19
 Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet at a summit in Iceland and agree to
step up arms control talks and renew cultural contacts.
November 23-24
Terrorists seize an Egyptian Boeing 737 airliner soon after taking off from
Athens, Greece. Later, 59 people will die as Egyptian forces storm the plane
on Malta the following day.
 ALSO IN 1985:
With prices falling, laser printers and personal computers, the
tools of desktop publishing become more commonplace. America begins to learn
a whole new way to ‘office.’... British scientists report the opening of an
enormous hole in the earth's ozone layer over Antarctica... Researchers at
IBM develop the scanning tunneling microscope, which can visualize images on
an atomic scale... New Coke introduced and goes flat. Coca-Cola attempts to
change its 99-year-old formula in an effort to attract younger drinkers.
"New" Coke is poorly received, and the company soon reintroduces the
original, now hastily proclaimed Coca Cola "Classic" beverage... Rock Hudson
(left) dies of AIDS at 59. He's the first famous person to fall victim to the
disease... Larry McMurtry’s western epic Lonesome Dove is a big hit in bookstores... The
US unemployment rate stands at 7.2%.
In Sports
NBA Championship LA Lakers defeat
Boston Celtics (4-2)... Villanova is the
NCAA Mens Basketball Champion... Stanley Cup Edmonton Oilers beat
Philadelphia Flyers (4-1)... At Wimbledon Women: Martina Navratilova d. C.
Evert Lloyd (4-6 6-3 6-2); Men: Boris Becker d. K. Curren (6-3 6-7 7-6
6-4)... Kentucky Derby Champion is Spend A Buck.
What's on TV
The Golden Girls, Growing Pains, Moonlighting, Who's The
Boss?, Miami Vice, 227, and You Again? hit the airwaves, with
varying degrees of success
 That's Show Biz
Movies: Kiss of the Spider Woman, Out of Africa,
Prizzi's Honor, The Color Purple... Academy Award, Best Picture is Amadeus... Record of the Year and Song of the Year go to
What's Love Got to
Do With It, soulfully rendered by Tina Turner...Album of the Year: Can't
Slow Down, Lionel Richie (Motown)
Deaths
Actress
Louise Brooks (right)
Painter Marc Chagall
Atomic Scientist
Frank Oppenheimer (brother of Robert Oppenheimer, a.k.a the Father of the
Atomic Bomb)
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