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

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.i lie's Irving to sign his name in your yearbook b That's how Nison’s secretary blew the tapes! e Summer's here again d. asting a spell to make peace with him e. Neat shot, neat chick • • • t • • t • • • • • fft • • Another year passes Another year passes ... The leaves arc green again on the trees, with life, short shorts, and T-shirts abounding everywhere. It is a vibrant lime, with a summer of adventures ahead. But it is also a time of goodbyes, a time to take a minute and relive the memories, of the last year, for some, the last thirteen for others. Colorful trees and the smell of smoke, the first busride of the year, all the snappy new clothes, meeting familiar faces, football cheers. The leaves falling, the ground white, hot breath freezes to smoke, numb hands, cold feet, cold classrooms, warm faces. Skiing, vacation, the few tanned faces are sore thumbs, hockey slapshots, studying hard, forgetting, finals, weekend, grades. Then drip, drip, dripping and running, from icicles to pools to streams. Wet ground, mud. sprouting green spots, a light breeze blows your hair, baseball, convertibles. Macdonald’s, grass stains, auto shop, oil stains, open campus, legal or not. short shorts. T-shirts, tanned legs, tanned backs, trying to study, finals, friends, goodbyes. Another year passes. The leaves arc green again on the trees

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SENIORS: FINALLY HERE A farewell and an introduction Well, look through the pictures slowly. In five years, how many of these people will you have said goodbye to for the last time? How many of these students have you known since Mrs. Brewer’s afternoon kindergarten class? Thirteen years is a long time, almost eight-tenths of your life! We were here during the deaths of Albert Schwictzcr. Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr. and Hubert Humphrey. While we were studying division, man greeted the moon. We were the generation that was too young for Wood-stock. War Protests, Howdy Doody and Farrah Fawcctt-Majors. Come on. admit it: it was a nice, sheltered environment. And now they arc going to let us out. We leave everything we’ve experienced: all the football games we lost, Mr. Lockwood’s unparalleled sense of humor, about 90 locker combinations, and with the toss of a lassie, a smile, and a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, it’s “Look out world, here we come!’’ But where to now? Can a class that so desperately needed study halls survive out there? What can a cx-chccrlcadcr do for a living? Is there really life after Concert Band? In two or three years this school may not even exist. Golden Valley School System will just be another memory, like Ella and Modular Scheduling. In ten years we will still be asking “What docs Mr. Toscas do now?” and What did they REALLY put in those hamburgers? But now that we are done, after we've taken that last hideous final and have closed our lockers for one last time, arc we supposed to be happy or sad? A school is only a building, and the faces change every year. We can finally see how the nervousness of the first day of school equals the last. Can you believe it? It's all over! Tom Alexander Tom Arnold Sarah Barlow Luca Bcrgamaschi Brook Berry Julie Bjoin Buzz Bowdish Julia Brant Bcnji Briones Lynn Brown Kathy Browne 20 Viking Annual. 1978 A®