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

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Dancing craze strikes The dancing spirit revived as many opportunities arose for students desiring to trip the light fantastic. In addition to Cooper's three traditional dancing events, the Homecoming Dance, the Mistletoe Dance, and the Jack-of-Hearts Dance, new dances, sponsored by organizations wishing to raise funds or parents hoping to provide safe entertainment, peppered the fall and winter social calendar. The parents' attempt to encourage benign Friday night activities faltered somewhat when slam dancing, a dangerous ritual of masses running into each other, occurred at fall dances. The National Honor Society organized the first dance of the year to celebrate Cooper's first home football game and Friday the thirteenth. The sale of black carnations contributed to the dance's superstitious theme. Fifth-Quarter Party dances, sponsored by the football Booster Club, marked the start of a seasonal tradition of post-game dances. The Talons staff's plan of raising money backfired when the Halloween Dance they sponsored for all the ghosts and goblins succeeded only in covering its cdsts. The dance fever cooled slightly until mid-December when the Girls Gymnastics team hosted a St. Nicholas Dance for a fund raiser. The Cheerleaders' Jack-of-Hearts Dance offered the girls a chance to invite their favorite beaux to the only formal dance inside the school. Dances this year, to the objections of many students, took place in the cafeteria instead of the larger gymnasium, because of the gym's newly installed floor. The renewed interest in dancing proved that the skeptics who thought the small cafeteria would be the grave of all dances were wrong. Dancing — 17