Edina High School - Whigrean Yearbook (Edina, MN)

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IN STUDENT LIFE 1 Christy Laedersch and Julia Horn iind that choosing a college and tilling out applications is very time consuming. 2. Various organizations wait to perform their creatively planned Homocoming skits. STUDENT LIFE 9

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A student’s life, often too complicated to organize and plan, was subject to many responsibilities other than school. Parents expected their kids to help with household chores — raking, doing dishes and occasionally cleaning out the dump commonly known as the bedroom. They also expected us to do well in school — how ridiculous of them! Athletes, actors and musicians took the responsibility to work hard so they could excel at their particular activity. After hours of practice, their performances gave a chance for their family and friends to see what they had been working so hard to achieve. The responsibility of friendship was a valuable one. After all. most of the events in a student's life were accompanied by friends or at least with acquaintances. Feeling run-down from the pressures of the day. the comfort of a bed was a welcomed sight. Before students retired they gathered their thoughts and tried to figure out the next day's schedule. Twenty-four hours just didn't seem enough to accomplish the things we wanted to do and the things we had to do. If only students could devise a thirty-hour day they might have a chance.

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 What did you do this summer?” This question echoed in the halls of a fresh school year, finding as many interesting as dull responses. Few of us were fortunate enough to entertain ourselves on exotic vacations: pearl diving in Montana, crossing the Andes Mountains by llama, or touring the world renowned Duneducanard down jacket factory in Monaco. Most of us. however, managed to escape to at least one corner of the earth, even if it happened to be the Edina Municipal Pool. We all endured tedious anecdotes of beach-bummed friends: Did I show you my shark bite? adding eloquent feedback like Wow and Jeepers. For some students, extra-curricular ac- tivities such as sports. Hornettes and cheerleading devoured nearly the entire summer break, allowing little time for travel or pursuing individual interests. Rookie highstepper Sue Nevers summed up her summer in recalling that Hornettes occupied my entire summer filling it with hard practices, pulled muscles and good times.” Practice did not necessarily make a perfect summer as a large portion of the Edina-East High School population discovered. Summer, according to Webster Jr's dictionary, is a six letter word for party. The money earned from servicing with a smile or bussing tables six hours a day was swallowed not only by taxes and gasoline but the teenager's insatiable desire to cele- brate. Whether it was a cabin-holiday (in the North), a visit to grandmother (over the river and through the woods) or a fun-filled day at Valleyfair, all of us managed to temporarily escape Edina. Happy hours of suntanning, sailing, tennis, golf, baseball, soccer, swimming and daytime television shortened an already too short summer. Soon the trees began to flame and once again students, with pen in hand, forgot the beaches, drive-ins and parties of the summer past. The average student unfortunately did not realize what a wonderful asset school was because it was in school that one learned how to appreciate summer vacation. 10 SUMMER