Columbia Heights High School - Cohian Yearbook (Columbia Heights, MN)

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Hites Spirit Revealed The cheerleaders will now lead the Battle- Cry . A buzz fills the gym. Each class is deter- mined to win the spirit stick. V-I-C-T-O-R-Y! CThe Sophs are two beats ahead of the cheerleadersy. The Juniors and Seniors have a close contest. We'll do it again for the Sophs . This time the Sophomores aren't sure when to start, so they are out from the start. The Juniors give their best shot, but the Seniors come out on top once again. The spirit stick is a climax to a half hour pepfest honoring our teams and promoting school spirit. The band opens the pepfest as students enter the gym. Mr. Breisch then takes the mike. Thank you, band. That was just SUPER! The varsity and B-squad cheerleaders do some of their best cheers to get things rolling. Mr. Breisch introduces the teams and their coach at which time we're given a quick run-down of the season. It seems Hite's teams are suddenly shy at pep- fests. There's a breeze through the gym during the split second it takes a team to stand and acknowledge their applause. The pepfest comes to an end with the student body joining the band for Roll-On and sending the teams on their way to more Hites victories! l - 1 '-x l x

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The end of a decade is our claim to the world. We are the seventies. The fifties had pony-tails, long skirts, hula- hoops and ignorance. Protests, war, hippies, various movements and disillusionment belong to the sixties. What are the seventies? A new wave of conservatism replaced the previous radi- cal attitude. Proposition 13 became a topic of discussion. The seventies became a readjustment period. People learned to work within the system instead of a fruitless fight from outside. A back-to-basics atmosphere was adopted. Watergate may have been the single most important event of the seventies. lt opened the publics' eyes to its system of government and operation. An unprecidented interest in politics began. The public was no longer satis- fied to be left in the dark. Government hearings and investigations were held in virtually every aspect: Water- gate, FBI, CIA, etc. This distrust was replaced with pre- caution. -0. . f me 'figs' ws ... ., . 1 ' Kitt 125' Physical condition became a main concern in the sev- enties. Sports and physical activity surrounded us. ln came warm-up suits hand-in-hand with jogging. Exercise was no longer limited to athletes or dieters. People of all ages joined in participation. Exercise manuals and assort- ed how-to manuals flooded the bookstands. Major league soccer arrived in the United States, bring- ing us the Minnesota Kicks. Muhammed Ali became the athlete of the decade. The real stars, however, were the women athletes. The women's demand for equal rights included the sports world. The sports section of the news- paper was no longer exclusively for males. Countless schools had to revise athletic programs to meet new equality standards. Advancements in technology have changed our lives. What were braces before the seventies? A 'tin grin' can be spotted in gathering people. Research has been inten- sified and is getting closer to answers. Major break- throughs have occurred in cancer research. The first test tube baby was born. On the opposite end, abortions became le- galized in the United States. The seventies brought cloning from sci- ence fiction to present day. Hubert H. Humphrey, the great politician and humanitarian, passed away. Boundary Waters Canoe area - what can be said? The Gay Rights Ordinance in St. Paul was repealed. Minnesota was no longer hidden away and covered with snow. The fifties had the hula-hoop and the sixties had the rock festivals. Disco is what the seventies brought. New forms of entertainment and re- creation have appeared. Frisbees, skateboarding, disco dancing and ten-speed bicycles are common T pasttimes. Movies and films have even taken a new perspective. Fa- vorite movie subjects include: disas- ters, sharks, dying characters and the ever-popular true life accounts. The media's preoccupation with sex cannot be overlooked. The single name Farrah is enough evidence. Fashion never changes, it only ro- tates. Mini-skirts were replaced with mid-length skirts. Shorter hair and permanents made long hair almost obsolete. The clean-cut appearance returned. Levis were made manda- tory to every wardrobe. Cowl neck sweaters and shirts sprang up from nowhere, sneaking in knee-high boots simultaneously. Annie Hall was no longer fiction: she could be seen everywhere. Changes did not exclude Columbia Heights Senior High School. The seventies brought many new and dif- ferent ideas. Women's Equality Movement had its impact on stu- dents at CHHS. Boys' and girls' gym and health CIZSSGS were no longer separated. Co-Ed became