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

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Snowless Snow Week Although Snow Week wasn't originally created to celebrate E. J. Cooper's birthday, it has become a tradition to incorporate it within the week's festivities. The celebration of E. J.'s 90th birthday made the annual event seem extra special despite an absence of snow. The activities were kicked off with the coronation of Snow King, Scott Dalchow, and Snow Queen, Sheryl Ott-ney. Their Royal Court consisted of juniors Mark Degidio, Dave Bauman, Debbie Idstrom, Nicole Fosse and sophomores Randy Mikolai, Nick Fritz, Rachel Beatty and Wendy Peterson. Performing for the Royalty were the Chamber Singer men, the Cooperettes, and the Symphonic Band. During the week, the days were designated for different types of apparel and activities. Tuesday, students wore ski sweaters to the coronation. Wednesday was mismatch and snowflake day; the girls tried to get the guys to talk to them and be the first to get their snowflake. Back to the 50's and heart day was Thursday, with roles reversed and boys trying to get the girls' paper hearts. On Friday, pink and red day, E. J. Cooper's birthday pepfest was held. As gifts, he received a trip to Florida, another year of cable television, and a Cooper sweatshirt. After the Cooperettes and the cheerleaders traditionally switched places for their Valentine performances, the mystery guests, The Jets arrived. The former Cooper students led the audience in singing Happy Birthday to E.J. Twelve autographed copies of the 'The Jets album were given away to ten students and two staff members. The week of activities came to a close with the Jack of Hearts Dance. As Valentine's Day approached, another year of tradition was carried out in a whirl. 18 — Snow Week

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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

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— Honoring E. |. Cooper on his 90th birthday, the mystery guests, The Jets, lead the audience in singing Happy Birthday. i A Cooper sweatshirt is accepted by E. J. Cooper from the H.E.A.R.T. organization. | Snow King, Scott Dalchow, and Snow Queen, Sheryl Ottney. — E. J. Cooper's granddaughter presents him with a picture collage from past years. Snow Week — 19