Golden Valley High School - Viking Yearbook (Golden Valley, MN)

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 THE DRAGON OF WENTZ' a flair for the dramatic. The The proved an outlet for artists with the Magenta Cloud and the wonderful Gizzard of Pod for a lien who lost his mane comes to new mane procured with a scale from the Dragon of Wentz. Play Was the Thing” TEACHING METHODS are explained by Mrs. Ella Lindberg, Junior High Math instructor, to Dick Ross. Dick is a member of the FTA group of students who were given a chance for a classroom teaching experience. 10

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for Special Abilities or Talents CALIPER IN HAND, Bausch and Lomb science award winner Steve Rosholt obtains an accurate measurement in an important physics project. A school building is just a shell without students lining it. A school is no more, and no less, than its occupants. Vikings characterized Golden Valley in all they did. Studious Valleyites exemplified academic leanings of GV. Fun-lovers enjoyed special events. Leaders headed committees, presided over club meetings, guided publications. Athletes put prowess to work by joining a team. Doers made the core of all activities. Each of the 455 Vikings, though, found some niche, some place in which he exhibited a special talent. Some displayed more talents than others. A few received special recognition for a special ability. But no matter how many talents a Valley student possessed he was part of a school—a school that became a living operation because of his participation in its being. A DAILY RITUAL is performed by DAR award winner Leslie Mitchell in her capacity as Student Council member. 9

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THE HEARTBEAT OF A TURTLE makes only a fainf impulse difficult to record with the electrocardiograph used by Pete Myhre in his project work during the Saturday morning Science Seminar. The Tyrone Guthrie Theater opened its doors to the theatergoing public this spring, but who's to persuade proud parents that Hume Cronyn is better than their son, the defense attorney in The Night of January Sixteenth, or a member of the Conga line in My Sister Eileen? The play was the thing, and Senior High English students traveled in busloads to see Hamlet, with Mr. Cronyn and his wife, Jessica Tandy, now Golden Valley residents. Plays weren't the only thing, as Wayne Neustrom initiated a Science Seminar on Saturday mornings in the lab. Interested students worked on projects ranging from building a rocket to measuring the heart impulses of frogs, during the two-and-a-half hours. Death struck Golden Valley and saddened all Valleyites who had had any contact with Chemistry and Physics Instructor Neu- strom, who died at the age of 35 from a heart attack. Mr. Neustrom is remembered by students and associates alike for his brilliant mind and love for teaching and those being taught. Teaching presented itself as an interesting career to about thirty students, members of the FTA, who were given a chance to present lessons to their peers, or just observe teaching techniques in the grade school. 11