Kennedy High School - Profiles Yearbook (Bloomington, MN)

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With the turning of the first shovelful of dirt, the construction of John F. Kennedy Senior High School was begun. Many shovelfuls of dirt and hours of labor followed. Some work remained even after the first KHS student body entered in September. Today the structure stands complete. But the structure is not the institution. The real measure of the school lies in the development of the individual student within his capacities and the development of the school program to discover the most effective means of challenging and inspiring the student and providing for his real needs. This is a continuing process and the challenge is always there. In the words of poet Robert Frost, a favorite of John F. Kennedy: But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. Therefore . . . . . . Let Us Begin Academics .........1 1 Activities ........51 Qports ............95 1 19 3 Classes

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JOHN F. KENNEDY 1917—1963 35th President of the United States JFK Legacy: A Challenge for Tomorrow Action was the keynote of his life. He was a imn of energetic activity and unlimited vitality. He inspired the young with his enthusiasm and vigor and the young were drawn to him in a feeling of kinship. He loved youth and his youth was eternal. He was a student. He read constantly and he could never learn enough. However, he also saw himself as a teacher, instructing others in reality and suggesting dreams. For this role he was richly endowed with a wonderfully sympathetic personality. In all things, it seemed, he tried to live his life as a model and guide to any who might choose to look upon him thus. One thing he left us beyond question—a high personal example of intelligence and grace in action. The rewards he found in life were those of the Greek definition of happiness: The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. And his excellence was many-sided. And he also left us his words and thoughts—prodigious in number, eloquent in expression, but pointed and direct. For a man so young and whose star shone so briefly, he left a remarkable volume of wisdom for posterity. In his Inaugural Address he spoke of the tasks which lay ahead, both for his administration and his country: All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. The emphasis, of course, was placed on the last sentence. Because these words so appropriately point out the challenge facing the infant John F. Kennedy Senior High School as it seeks to establish itself as a vital, strong and progressive institution of learning, we have chosen them as our theme. 2

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KHS site in the fall of 1963: From cultivation of the soil to cultivation of intellectual pursuits. A Modem Metamorphosis: Farm Massive structure, begun in early 1964. rose slowly. 4 Staircases came before there was anything to climb to. The more conventional rectangular part of the building began to take shape.