Kennedy High School - Profiles Yearbook (Bloomington, MN)

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Gossip speeds through halls, assaulting victims, sparing no one Loti: Surprise quizzes ore a shock only to first-hour dosses. Gossip has a way of informing students in later classes of an the questions. Lesly Tuttle and Kim Posch share English answers. Below: AH someone had to do was to wear something that nobody else has That's enough to get Jenny Reed. Jeanette Toustgnant. Usa Johnson, and Laura Johnson talking. When it come to spreading the news, nothing was more helpful than the telephone. Sophomores Karen Botchelder (above center) and JaneUe Huston (above) exchange stories. Lett: With the Marching Band halftime show over. Kari Folkestad and HoSy Duis con get back to more important business: assuring each other that the new boy in math Hkes them. Gossip n

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B aster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. It leaves many victims, but few survivors. Like a bullet, gossip shoots down the school halls at amazing speeds. And when it hits, it hits hard. Witness: Mary comes to school, overflowing with affection for Mr. Right. She swears her closest friend, Cathy, to strictest secrecy as she says. He's the one I've always dreamed of going to Sadie with. Jim. meanwhile, “accidently overhears Mary. He then reports it to Sue. who tells Jane, who writes a note to Jack. By the end of the day. a concerned friend asks Mary if she really is pregnant and has to marry Mr. Right. Mary is a victim of gossip. Joe is having a party. Just a few' of the guys after the game, nothing special. But the guys tell their friends, and the party starts to grow ... and grow ... and grow. Eventually, the cheerleaders are making signs and posting maps in the foyer with an X on Below: It's true Karen Tolman swears to Darren Koike that she knows for sure that the English test is gotng to be postponed, but it's a secret, so don't tel anybody. Darren may keep his word, aI right, but the news w be out anyway. Kim Clark's weS-traned ears have overheard it at. Joe’s house. About 700 kids show up with party treats in hand. The neighbors call the police S.W.A.T. team; Joe's parents call home from church and ground him until he's 47. Joe is a victim of gossip. Understanding what Joe is going through. Mary stops him in the hall to offer her sympathy. And — you guessed it. Fred sees her with Joe. He tells Sheila, who calls Mike, who then tells Bob. Once again. Mighty Gossip cuts its ruthless path. Pregnant again. Mary?” Right: Lacking anything better to do. Juniors Jay Hansen. Scott Evenson. and Rick Lukasezck debate whether they should drop in on the party they heard would be gomg on at Parker s First, I heard that. . but then SHE said . . 26 Gossip

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You know you’re a . when . . . ecaH Kindergarten? You came home to Mom in tears. Somebody called you a fag. Then came the grades, and more names. He called me a gay. She says I'm a snot face. Tears again. You didn't know what a gay. fag. or snot face was. but you were sure that you didn't want to be one. The voice gave it away every time, along with the ya-na-na-na-na-na that usually accompanied the verbal defamation of your otherwise impeccable character. Name calling was the pits. So it was that you struggled to maintain composure through grade school and junior high. On good days — when nobody paid attention to you — you actually almost enjoyed yourself. Anonymity was where it was at. When you finally made it to high school, you thought name calling would've gone by the board. Too childish for sophisticated high school students, right? Guess again, bunhead. At least, now you know why you're called what you are. Or if you don't, read on. But please, no tears. What’s in a nickname? A lot when you’re the one called ‘snotface’ Teacher’s pet .. When you hold down a job just so you con afford to buy lavish gifts for your teachers. When you ore invited to your English teacher's home for Thanksgiving ■.. When people keep saying that you make fudge when you know you never eat chocolate. (Mtssy Majeres doesn't have a home: she Ives in the Faculty lounge.) A brain .. When you can no longer be ranked on the school's regular grodng scale. ... When your Analysis teacher asks to have you bronzed and preserved in the classroom os an example of a perfect student. ... When the SAT test people have you write their next exam. (OK. Kristi Scherber. you've impressed the grandparents You can put your books away now.) A sophmore A senior ... When you constantly remind people that you are a senior. ... When you think riding the school bus is beneath you. ... When you know those fun-figure ads were meant just for you ... When you spend more time out of doss seeing college reps than in class learning how to write a complete sentence (Where's Akce Holm? Oh. out of class, waiting for a college rep.) When your mommy walks yc to the bus stop each mornng. ... When you still sleep with your teddy bear ... When a night on the town means two games at Beanie's, an ice cream cone at Bridgemo and stH enough time to walk home before 9 p.m (Here's sophomore Steve Hagge and his bedtime buddies: Cookk Monster. Smurf, and Teddy.) 2® Stereotypes