Kennedy High School - Profiles Yearbook (Bloomington, MN)

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cJrolo, ' rvN GGCxc x oct tO l$Cwj Qra rrvcfe O-SLftX t: ' nn QUX .- poo? JSre irN ( rr Sn so osg Coot IfO lAfOCt1 po of o QQQO-} -hcr Q, TCxkrs bCIwl VOi WWWOIb Compromises needed to help overcoming social differences mam so scared. I know that when the Lincoln and Jefferson kids walk in. the dress code is going to be unbelievable. 1 11 have to buy clothing with name tags on them. Bye bye Plain Pockets, hello Calvin Klein. Why do I want some guy’s name, whom I’ve never even met. on my butt. That’s awfully intimate for a complete stranger, don’t you think? I can’t afford nice Clothes. I CAN BARELY AFFORD NICE FOOD! What about the new curve? Now I know I’ll never get to Normandale. How do they do it? Do so well in school. I mean. They must ... No. they couldn’t. But then again, maybe they ... could it be that they actually ... STUDY? Nahhh ... No high school student in his right mind would actually ... study. It’s practically a four-letter word, give or take a couple. (I got a C in Algebra.) I can’t disgrace my family. I’ll have to study. Then again. I can’t disgrace my reputation. My name will have to be erased from thousands of bathroom walls around the country. That’s a risk I’ll simply have to take. I’ll study. It’s not such a sacrifice to make, when you consider my reward: the chance to further my education at Normandale. Did I say Normandale? I meant the U. The University? Why stop there? I’m not stopping until I get to HARVARD! With the arrival of prestigious Westerners. Jim Hartmann w t have to clean up his act loomington. It’s not a city, but two cities within a city. If one were to believe the stereotypes thrown at us. one would think that only rich, prestigious, highly intelligent children are reared in West Bloomington, and only juvenile delinquents inhabit East Bloomington. Of course, stereotyping and overgeneralizing has taken its toll; however, the belief that ’’West is best and East is least has been played by both sides. For many, it has been accepted as truth. So. as long as the Westernites attended Jefferson and Lincoln, and the Easternites were kept at Kennedy, there have been no major problems. Until now. Until now things have run smoothly in Bloomington schools. Money problems changed all that this year, however, for the School Board was forced to make major cuts. One cut would save $1 million; it involved closing down a high school. On Feb. 16. 1982. the Board voted to make Lincoln the school to be closed. The dreaded nightmare was to become reality. East and West were to be integrated. How to make it work? Compromise. Both sides would have to play down social differences, forget the stereotypes, and learn to give a little. Compromise would surely help the situation. Compromise alone would make the integration of the schools work. Compromise would enable Bloomington to become a whole once again. Feature 25

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 am so scared.” “Me too. The moment we walk in to Kennedy, we’ll get raped, or killed, or worse! I’ll have to break my leg a lot. That way, I can take the elevator and avoid all the gang wars in the halls. No. wait! I'll JOIN a gang. I don’t want to look real conspicuous. We’ll have to start planning now for next year. We’ll have to prepare ourselves for all the violence. I’m not used to the sight of blood. I know. I’ll check the want ads under 'bodyguard'. “No. too obvious. “I wonder if my mother , has ever considered going back to school. How are we going to get all the money we'll need for school? Whips, chains and brass knuckles don’t come real cheap, you know. I’ll take up selling drugs. After all. if I don’t sell it to them, someone else will, right? Maybe I can expand, and pick up the elementary school routes. I could be a multi-millionaire by the end of my senior year! I could take money out of my college fund. I’m sure I could get the money back, somehow. I hear the Army has a really great plan.” “This is beginning to look better and better. We won’t have to worry about going away to school. We can stay right here at home and go to Normandale. I mean, an education is an education, right? When school boundaries were changed. Lincoln's Tim Carlson and Jefferson's Mike Welle found themselves having to give up and give in a little to adapt to a different school. 24 Feature

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ix a.m.? Never. Well. 6:30 then. Not even close. Ask most any student and he'd tell you: the day really began at 2:05. That’s because when the final bell of the school day rang at 2:05, students then had the freedom to do whatever they wanted. Of course, there was always homework to consider, but chances were that wasn’t the first thing to come to mind, not when there were so many other tempting options out there in the real world. So each day the exodus began, as students poured out of classrooms and then asked: Huh. What do you think we should do? Final bell saves the day; students thrive after 2:05 Below: It's 2:05 and Jell ZeHmer. Evan Church. Mark Throndsen. Leslie Beck. Tim Clifford. Jodi Larson and Shirley Haggerty are The 2:05 pigout Above: Sure, he ate lunch today. Missing a meal just isn't the game plan. Even so. by 2:05 Jell ZeHmer was in trouble. His stomach was noisily reminding him that It not in his body just to take up space So it was that by the time ho got to his bus for home, the word food kept flashing through his mind. Finally, by the time he reached home, he was desperate Raiding the cupboards the 'fridge, he settles down to a 2:05 least, secure in the knowledge that a lull tummy is a happy tummy. The 2:05 crash Right: All work — and all play — have made Evan Church a tired little boy. It's not easy being the He of the class for six long hours. It takes intense concentration. His is not a wasted He. however, for all Ns efforts in school tired him out sulficienity so as to lull him into a better world, a 2:05 dreamland 26 Life at 2:05