Cooper High School - Talons Yearbook (New Hope, MN)

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Table Of Contents Life ......................4 Curriculum................24 Classes ..................48 Athletics.................94 Activities ..............120 Index....................164 Spring ..................171

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This Land Is Mine TALONS ’66 E. J. COOPER Senior High School New Hope, Minnesota

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This Land Is Mine Th is land is mine; God gave this land to me. And you. And any- one who will take His gift of beauty and strength. It is a land of sprawling grandeur capped by soaring peaks and washed clean by gentle brooks, raging streams and broad rivers that flow to the oceans. From California to the rockbound coast of Maine, from sweeping fields of Georgia cotton to waving strands of Kansas wheat, from factories belching smoke in Pennsylvania to derricks pumping oil in Texas, this land is mine. Exciting names from old lands dot the map of my land. And exotic Indian names tell of the early men who claimed the land as theirs. Names like Wisconsin, Ohio, Dakota and Minnesota. This state is mine. Where the winds of winter sweep across the land and soft snow turns the landscape to dazzling white. Indian summers change leaves to brilliant colors under red skies as ducks fly through the Autumn sunset. The Mississippi trickles out of the rocks of the North to become the mightiest of rivers, while lakes give testimony that this is the “land of sky blue waters.” The pioneers of my state gave their cities names of hope and faith and desire for the future. Names like Bemidji, New Ulm, Minnetonka, Golden Valley and New Hope. 3