Hopkins High School - Warrior Yearbook (Minnetonka, MN)

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(.f£ f. I A • Winters can be long and cold in the North Star state, but—they can be beautiful as well. Here the same scene clothed in hoar frost. Foreword This has been an eventful year. Our new building has meant change —a whole new way of (school) life. Habits and customs have been up-rooted. New problems have presented themselves. Only the traditional Hopkins spirit remains the same. We believe problems were meant for testing and solving. They presented a challenge, and with the help of our faculty friends, we met the challenge — solved most of the problems. Another year will be easier, but we're glad our class had the opportunity to help set the pattern for the new life. In the pages that follow, we of the Warrior staff have recorded in word and picture, highlights of this new life. The sensitive reader will be aware of joy and sorrow, frivolity and dead seriousness, excitement and apathy — extremes of which the modern student is a part. And through it all we hope you will find the golden thread which is the Hopkins spirit. We invite you to re-live with us the past school year. 5

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Table of Contents • Autumn in all its glory is at its best in Minnesota. Typical of the locale is this view from a classroom overlooking the Oakridge Golf Club. The School Page 8 Activities Page 48 Athletics . . . . Page 82 4 School Life Page 102

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A new is ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ building born A building is more than bricks and mortar. Particularly is this true of a school building. It must be the expression of an idea. It is the product of the planning of many minds, the dreams of practical visionaries, the work of many artisans. It must be the cradle for great ideas, fertile ground for seeds of serious thought, a playground for lighter moments. A paradox? No, for such is the high school student of today, and the building must fit him and his many facets. He loves institutions and their stability. He revels in custom and tradition, and his school building must be one that will nurture such. This we have in our new building — the theme of our book. The need for a new senior high became evident some years ago. A bond election was held and passed; but before the idea got entirely through the planning stage, it became evident the District would need elementary, classrooms in a hurry. Schoolplanning leadership was in good hands. Superintendent Tanglen was more aware of the upsurge of births in his District than were the parents themselves, the rush to the suburbs of city-tired families with school-age kids. He counted school census when other wakeful executives counted sheep. Thus it is with men who know their jobs. Fortunate indeed is a superintendent with a top-quality board like that in District 225. With one eye to District-ability-to-pay-for and the other visioning the type of school program a modern, fast-growing suburb needed, this cooperating team achieved a nice balance in the ideas given to the planning architects. These ideas came alive on creative drawing boards and the contractors went to work. We, they, and the community, are proud of the result. It is one of the finest, most complete — and without frills — educational plants in the country. We are proud to be the first senior class in it. The year has been a real experience. Supt. L. H. Tanglen And so, our building has grown from an idea, conceived and nurtured by an educational leader and his education-visioned board. In like manner, our formal education, only an idea a few short years ago, has taken form and been given purpose by the faculty — our good friends, We are grateful to our school and the communities which make up District 225. G. M. Robertson (treasurer), Don Donovan, O. J. Parks (president), Mrs. June Thro-dahl, Rollin B. Child (clerk), Paul S. Swensson. 6