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

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Kim Turner John Van Heel Jon Vick Mary Wagner Tom Wallcrius Cindy Weist Denise Winkler Erika Wisiol Phil Wold Hiro Yamashita Viking Annual, 1978 29

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Lynne Stobbe Steve Tehven Kari Thcrncll Lesley Segal Brenda Schlin Laura Shinder Rodger Skarc Jeff Slattery Julie Smith Sue Spence Debbie Staack Jenny Stark Mark Stegner Kai :n Stcllmachcr 28

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Looking forward and looking back . . . SENIOR MEMORIES The members of the class of '78 arc finally high school graduates! For most of us it means looking forward to new and different encounters and greater responsibilities. We begin to take our lives into our own hands and become independent of the comfortable little world most of us have existed in for the last 13 or so years. But those years make up a portion of our lives that we should not soon forget. The time we've spent in school has been a continuous influence on our personal development and has helped to mold us into the people we are today. The last four years as high-schoolers have probably been the most important in our maturing process. We began to respect each other as individuals, and through this mutual understanding became a more closely-knit group. Back as freshmen we believed that being a senior meant having answers to all the questions but now that we’ve reached that stage all we have is questions for all the answers. When did we grow up? When did we make the trans- fer from “immature freshmen to big. wise and hopefully respected seniors from the little tots on the Meadow-brook playground to the “Big Boys and Girls supervising them — or from unconcerned adolescents taking spelling tests to nervous scholars preparing for PSATs, ACTs and SATs? At one time or another, it is believed that every high school student will say “I can’t wait until I graduate. But nearing the end of our senior year, we look back on so many memories, good and bad, and we realize that it all went by too fast. We must look ahead, however, to all the experiences and exciting things to come as we. the Class of ’78, leave behind one phase of our lives and, with a final backwards glance and smile, enter another. 30 Viking Annual. 1978