Cardinal Newman High School - Accolade Yearbook (West Palm Beach, FL)

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On Monday mornings They sang the blues The alarm clock doesn ' t ring, the toast is burnt, the car breaks down on the way to school and you get an F on that test you stayed in all weekend for. It ' s all part of the Monday Morning Blues. Just what are Monday Morning Blues? Explained by senior Lisa Kamenski, It ' s coming back from a partying weekend to find 70 minutes of endless babbling from a teacher. Well, argued junior Kathy John- son, I think it ' s squeezing back into your uniform after a festive weekend. Said Sister Kathleen, home economics teacher, Morning Blues is all the work and papers that you expected to finish over the weekend and still have to face because you ' ve only done half. Fr. Eugene Tremblay had a different view of what Monday meant to him: It ' s realizing that there ' s a good reason why birds never fly at night. The one blues , however, which could be acknowledged by both teachers and students EVERY Monday was expressed by junior Rick McKenna, Monday Morning Blues is wishing that the weekend was one day longer. j i TOP LEFT: Semors Robert Rockwell and Joe Metzger look for more interesting subjects than physics while seniors Rita Budnyk and Brad Saxton just hang in there until the bell rings. LEFT: It ' s bad enough that the day is Monday, but rain adds to the misery of these students dashing to their next class. i STUDENT LIFE 31

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ABOVE Seniors David Stem and Justin Walsh discover the end of a perfect fvlonday in the parking lot after school a car that won t start RIGHT Senior Cathy Hughes is not too pleased about filling out an accident report after a fender bender in the student parking lot. 30 STUDENT LIFE

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Give me a Five, four, three, two, one, RING! The countdown began at the end of that first long seventy-minute period. But students didn ' t get a break until another seventy-minute class had passed. Ten minute break: it wasn ' t much, but students made the most of it. They finished last minute homework assignments, crammed for tests, talked with friends, and if they were lucky, they got into the bath- rooms before students jammed in to comb their hair and relay the latest gossip. It was also a time to catch a glimpse of that special boy or girl or lean against the wall and watch the new prospects walk by. The next break didn ' t occur until lunch when students satisfied growl- ing stomachs with the cuisine from the cafeteria or paper bags from home. After shoving down a quick lunch, some students used the thirty minutes to put finishing touches on last night ' s homework, or borrow a friend ' s homework to complete an assignment. But the best break of all? Friday at 2:30. ABOVE: Tom DeLoreto and Schree Hach, juniors, were oblivious to the crowded halls around them during ten minute break. RIGHT: Sometimes Newman resembled a hospital more than a school, as students hobbled around on crutches. Senior Robert Denton pulled ligaments in his knee during football practice, and Mary Pat Hoffman, senior, tore ligaments in her ankle at the district volleyball meet. No, Robert didn ' t push her. She fell. 32 STUDENT LIFE