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

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the trend. Traditionally male and female' classes were no longer limited to one sex. Girls gained the benefit of a better extra-curricular athletic program. Many little changes occurred between 1970 and 1979. The school lunches haven't necessarily improved, just a bigger selection is available. The malt machine, ala carte fruit and vegies, and hamburgers are all new additions. Cookie break or snack break is also a recent innova- tion. Traditions have begun in the past few years. Seniors can now proudly open their first floor lockers. What is Homecoming without a toilet-pa- . pered football field? Egg-throwing has gained a new perspective. Stu- dents actually listen to morning an- nouncements: side tracking has no limits. Honor Study Hall was intro- duced to us. Early Graduation no longer meant pregnancy. Attitudes have slowly changed. The dress code was abolished in the early seventies. Homecoming candidates are no longer limited to a select group. These are a few of the endless little. but important changes. Amidst a continuously changing world are standards that will never vary. lt's comforting to know Blue and Gold will always be Blue and Gold. A spirit stick will always mean the end of a pepfest. Smoke fogging the bathroom mirrors will always signify that lunch is over. Students sleeping is a sure bet it is chemistry time. What a tragedy if the football players gathered in the library instead of the front lobby. No one but Mr. Rassmussen could ever be R . Still, isn't it nice to know that year after year, Mr. Wisniewski will always look the same for at least his i i clothes willy. EXPECTATIONS OF THE 80's We are a product of the seventies, but 1979 is the end of a decade. Our future lies in the eighties. What do The eighties have in store for us? Joy, sorrow, hope, or de- spair. ln the eighties our future will be revealed. Ready or not we're on our way into the future. Here we come along with out contributions and changes After a long, hard fight students will be allowed an open lunch. Vending machines will be put in school and no one will care. The trend toward computerization will continue and there will be less demand for skilled labor. The Equal Rights Amendment will be passed. Girls sports will seriously compete with boys for popularity. Columbia Jr. will close and be- come a home for retired teachers. Hites will have another snow day, but not until the late eighties. Biology students will be cloning Mr. Brady. Twins will win the pennant their first year in a domed stadium. Single family dwellings will become almost obsolete. Use of solar and atomic energy will increase. Television will become three-dimensional. Education has drasticly changed and will continue to change in the years to follow. Declining enrollment has reduced so much that Heights will have grades nine through twelve in the senior high. The baby boom of nineteen sixty will be repeated. The Vikings will win the Super Bowl next time around. Parking permits will be made again - this time the right size. Television will take the place of teachers in the classroom. School lunches will be prepacked. Jeans will become obsolete and dresses will take their place. Our predictions are just a hope or dream for the future, but H. R. Hays, in his poem Repeat Performance bring meaning to the words change and future. Repeat Performance Preparations are carefully made The earth begins to breathe more rapidly. A year full of explosions, Burning shrieks and boredom, Terror and old beercans Pulls into the station. Blades of grass are rehearsing A green procession. A leaf waves a small flag. There will be new faces. A star will come weeping Out of space. New lies will be told. ln a blare of sunlight, ln a radiance of spring, The heart Launches its teeming satellite Into the clouds.

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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

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We Are A Product Of The 70's