Benilde St Margarets School - Sangraal / Benilden Yearbook (St Louis Park, MN)

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While playing Space Invaders, Junior Mary Burns demonsTroTes one of The many uses of 0 home compuTer Uighb. The Burns family received The Apple II compuTer for ChrisTmos Gower inseD. - WT Wwwxaxwwx mm MW VT WA xx ' ,1 v. ,T. v.3 CA Year of Electronics In The popular class of compuTer Sci- ence, Senior Gory Wollok refines his keyboard Typing on one of The Apple '5. Each class worked wiTh The Apple II, 25-80 and The micro-compuTers. $.13??an 24 STudenT Life

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STage Or Stereo? Live From The Twin Cities, ITTs . . . One of The fovoriTe evening ocTiviTies of sTudenTs This posT year was oTTending concerTs and o greoT year for concerTs H was! Mony big name ocTs come To The Twin CiTies This year To do some jom- min'. Among The more popular music mokers To hiT The area were: STyx, Doobie Bros., Air Supply, Journey, For- eigner, ELO, Hall 8 OoTs. Moody Blues, Blue OysTer CuIT, Rush, The Kinks, FoghoT, Tom PeTTy and The HeorTbreok- ers, Devo, PeTer Tosh, ACTDC, PoT BenoTor, Grand Funk, Greg Loke, RossingTon Collins, Frank Zappa, The Beach Boys, Rick James, EdrTh, Wind and Fire, Rod STeworT, Konsos, Loverboy, The Police, The Go-Go's, J. Geiis Bond, Ozzie 02- born, The Cars and many more. However, There was one concerT in porTiculor ThoT goT everyone Tolking. This was The Rolling STones ConcerT on November 24, 4984 CT The ST. Poul Civic CenTer. IT seemed 03 Though everyone wonTed TickeTs To iT. BuT There was one major problem - how To geT Them. if you were forTunoTe enough To be The one in nine ThoT had a chance of geTTing The $45.75 TickeT by mail order, you had iT mode. if you weren'T so lucky, There were oTher, more difficuIT ways of geTTing some. You could have lisTened for K404-FM rodio To ploy The Two STones' Tunes in on row and be The fifTeenTh coiler To win 0 pair of seoTs. Juniors Tino Cleveland and Caroline Cochrone were Two of The 404 speedy diolers To do so. Then, if H seemed impossible To dial The phone so fosT, you could have senT o posTcord To KQ92, IisTen for your name on The radio and coil in before nine minuTes ond TwenTy seconds. When The nighT was over, many BSM people could soy They sow hisTory in The making. This is because 4984 was The iosT yeor ThoT Mick and his STones would rock The Touring scene ever again. WhoTever your TosTe in music, 4984-82 was a greoT year for live enTerToinmenT. . 0 ha 8 Mick Jagger puT his usual drive and energy inTo one fonce'cts Of The many songs he song here IosT foil. Music 23

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Technological Madness The world of elecTronics hdd greoT ideas for Those who had big plans for Their enTeerinmenT dolldr This year. The mosT popular eieCTronic god- geT seemed To be The Sony Walkman. However, The invenTor didn'T seem To develop any kind of disguise for Them. These small rodio headphones ofTen ended up in The cIuTches of SisTer Kerry of Mr. Hamburge. AnoTher popular iTem was The Ghetto BlasTer, The IdrgesT TrdnsisTor rodio ever seen and com- monly referrerd To 03 0 box. These however, were even more difficuIT To disguise so They ei- Ther were seen bldring dfTerschooI in The halls of The commons, or else spending The day dT home, quieTIy owoiTing The owner To come home and Hcronk Them. For big spenders Tor sTudenTs wiTh porenTs who were big spenders; home video seTs or home compuTers were on The Top Ten IisT for Chrisdes presenTs. Boxes, Wolkmons, home compuTers and video games bring The sTudenT body inTo The world of high Technology. IT seemed Tth ploying wiTh The elecTronic godgeTs was 0 popular posT Time. Those com- puTers' ore greoT, They can do dnyThing, com- menTed one sTudenT. They could do onyThing from big jobs like balancing The family budgeT To IiTTle jobs such as playing Tic-Toc-Toe. As for as video games go, They become 0 noTiondl posT Time. People were known To spend Ten To TwenTy dollors worTh of quorTers on one game, The mosT popular of These being, Space Invaders, Asteroids and The ever-populor Pac- Man, which even had a song wriTTen obouT iT. PsychologisTs dnd educoTors worId-wide were concerned obouT The effecT of The video crdze would have on sTudenTs - wos iT dddicTing? Por- enTs dnd sTudenTs soon realized ThoT The world of advanced Technology rhome compuTers, video games and cable TVT could be 0 very expensive croze as well. NoT exocTIy 0 cheap iTem, a Box senT music blaring down The halls. This one, shouldered by Freshman Brion Wonderly, was 0 common sighT in The building of- Terschool. EIecTronics 25