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

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— Seeing films Friday nights is a popular way to begin weekends for friends who want to get together or for those going out on dates. —•! T.P.'ing, a favorite early morning hour activity, leaves the tree in Lisa Forsythe's front lawn draped with Mr. Whipple's favorite product. [ Buying clothes dominates the weekend shopping of many teenagers. Kendra Reynolds and Pam Peterson check out the sales at the Limited. LJA the movie 16 — Feature

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Activities Arouse Spirit Excitement and anticipation filled the air throughout Homecoming. Extensive planning by the Homecoming chairpersons Fran Zabel, Shannon Noren and Lisa Hyland began as early as last spring to help make Homecoming '86 a success. The festivities began on Wednesday with the coronation and continued that evening with Casino Night followed by the bonfire. Sophomore Julie Mundale said, Participating in Homecoming activities made me feel like part of the school. Thursday was Beach Bum day, and classes were dismissed early to allow students to attend the numerous activities. Homerooms 244, 235, and 111 took the volleyball championships. The dunk tank, another activity, left King Scott Billey all wet, as he was the first to test the water. Other activities included the frisbee throw, the serf auction, the feed, and the battle of the bands. Friday, Blue and Orange day, began with the delivery of Kiss-O-Grams by the royal court. During the pepfest Don Blore arrived in his CHS mini van to help students get fired up for the game against Minnetonka. The game went into overtime, however, and the Hawks were defeated with the final score 3-0. — David Webber's rendition of Twist and Shout and “Mony, Mony highlights the coronation pepfest and the Battle of the Bands. —1 The 1986 Royal court is entertained by various groups as they nervously await the crowning of King and Queen during coronation. Homecoming — 15

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I After a long weekend of greasy fingers and intricate adjusting. Matt Albrecht shows oft a shiny new engine which he builds during his free time. IF JiH Larson's weekend begins and ends at Snyder Drug Store. Service with a smile is what she strives for as she rings up a customer. Weekend Times J oday is the beginning of a new w I week. I've got a paper due for | I tumanities and for Creative | Writing on Wednesday, ■ quizzes in second, fourth, and sixth mods on Thursday, and unit tests in fifth and third mods on Friday ... looks like a pretty good week ahead of me ... Boy - I can't wait 'till Friday night! exclaimed Julie Yunker as she agonized over the week ahead of her. An astounding number of other students recited a similar schedule every Monday morning when they stepped up to their locker, trying to remember their combination; and. during first hour open, when they found all of their friends facing the same schedule as they had, they started planning for the weekend. They wanted time to fly. Looking forward to a break from the action became a preoccupation. For some, however, weekends turned out to be worse than the week because they had to work from 6-11 p.m. on Friday night, 5-11 p.m. on Saturday night, and 12-5 p.m. on Sunday, or perhaps they had musical rehearsal all day Friday and Saturday, or, maybe, they just had a bad weekend because David Let-terman was cancelled; but for the most part, weekends were enjoyable, especially if they were spent out and about with friends, doing something fun. Sports proved to be a very popular weekend activity for releasing frustration that accumulated during eighth mod. Snowmobiling, biking, tennis, skiing, fishing, and broomball were some favorites. People who preferred the indoors to the outdoors shopped, babysat, or partied all weekend. One common hot spot that never failed to be a popular option svas the movies. Whether a group of friends went together or boyfriend and girlfriend accompanied each other right to the popcorn counter and on into the theatre, cinema parking lots filled quickly Friday nights. Still other people chose to spend time improving their automobiles. Friday nights were spent in garages with greasy fingers and tools hooked onto their belt. As soon as the clock struck 12 midnight, some sneaky dauntless souls headed out onto the street searching out the homes of soccer players, new cheerleaders, or volleyball players, and covered many yards and roof tops with toilet paper, forks, and maybe even a box, or four, of corn flakes, and in celebration, performed a rain dance. If the rains came, the soccer players opened their shades to a sea of wet. soggy toilet paper, hopelessly stuck to their entire yard. What weekend fun! Nevertheless, there always were a few students who had honestly worked their heart out during the long and stressful week. For them, looking forward to the weekend meant just stretching out and relaxing next to the boob-tube, with a few rented movies and a good basketball or football game. All of this fun continued throughout the weekend ... until... Sunday night at 8 or 9 p.m., when the homework was reluctantly removed from its original 2:30 p.m. Friday placement and dumped carelessly onto a desk, where the mind, filled with weekend bliss, had to be adjusted back into its week position, and center its attention on the papers and books sprawled over the desk. Feature — 17