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

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4 - Opening 1A hivlelzn for worn out residents of the Twin Cities, Lake of the Isles is often very crowded until the first snow 3 . Summer Time Flies nevitably the first day of school brings the dreaded question from almost all teachers. Each one demands some sort of account of what everyone did with their summer. Even if one manages to escape this in- terrogation, one's friends invariably take up the inquisition until every major ac- tion of the summer is thoroughly explained. So what does everyone do all sum- mer? Working tops the list as the major summer diversion. The last weeks of May and the first weeks of June find local businesses flooded with job seekers. By the end of June almost no employer will even look at an application. Once everyone has earned a paycheck, they must find ways to spend it. Movies and concerts, popular forms of entertainment, took up many summer nights. Uptown, and especially the Up- town Theater, attracted many students looking for a combination of these ac- tivities. The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense are two of the very popular musicaVconcert movies shown. Lack of funds caused some students to skip these movies and just hang around Up- town. The famed punk haven, McDonald'sl drew those interested in just sitting around talking to friends. Many students found a day at the lake a pleasant way to spend a day off from work, but one can hang out at Lake Calhoun only so many times. Cool or rainy days found many vacationers at Calhoun Square, City Center, Ridgedale, or Riverplace. By late August, shopping becomes an obsession, and balancing money spent with money earned becomes challenging. After returning from family vacations, most students found it quite necessary to throw at least one back to school bash with friends to begin the transi- tion from summer to fall. Submitting one's two weeks notice and staying up until 4:00 am. or sleeping until 4:00 pm. a few last times completes this transition.

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-. The day before school starts is the last day of peace for this building, which has not undergone much ch nge since its opening in 1962. ring the passage of time from fall to winter, leaves change on trees, a suresign of the approaching snow and cold. IJeff Olson dodges a Minnetonka defenseman while unning back he open- ing kickoff in the Homecoming football game. Opening e 3

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1 Ridgedale, one of the many shopping malls in the Twin Cities, draws shoppers armed with their parents' plastic money. 1 Seeking group participation students attend movies such as The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Uptown Theater. fgW'l h' s ,, u .. 'Vm V . t. ,, hv. '. h V T Knowing they will need culture points, Humanities students visit the Min- neapolis Institute of Arts to study its architecture and the art it houses. . t Opening - 5 J