Kennedy High School - Profiles Yearbook (Bloomington, MN)

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The five things you like the most about school □ Friends. They were your No. 1 reason for liking school. Even if you had to pay them to be seen with you, you still looked forward to being at school with the crowd. Next to your buddies, you J liked your classes you took in high school ' the best. (How about that, Mom and Dad?) Next came the chance to play the game. Any game. The school was full of chances for you to participate. That was OK. And if you were not participating, you were there watching. Fourth on your list were activities to go to. You are foolish. Teachers ranked fifth on your hit list, and on your favorites list. Which confirms how weird you were. Above: What did you like best about school? You got to rank your top live choices in a Profile survey of all students. Wendy Sherman. Tina Wefser. and Sandy Zitterow are friends sharing a moment together. An-1 that, you said, was what yo) liked best about coming to schoc 24 What you tike about high school

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 You never forget your first ... our first time? Sure. Hey. there’s a first time for everything, right? For instance, remember the first time you failed a test? Or maybe the first time you got an A” is more memorable. And your first overnight trip with the team ... pillow fights, pigging out. and playing pranks were all a part of the fun. How about that first pimple? Now. that was truly disgusting. But. good or bad. every first” was important. Because every first meant that you were growing up. Trying new things. Living new experiences. And discovering more about yourself every step of the way. First letter Above: The sugn ol accomplishment. The mark ot a jock Brian Bolander proudly shows oil his varsity letter to fellow jock Juke Delestry. She appreciated her letter so much that she made sure she got a letter jacket lor it right away Brian? Not so last That fust letter came as a treshman. but this junior didn't feel that macho compulsion to wear his sign ol achievement Enough that he had it to look at First real party Left: Sure, you've been to parties Everyone has But have you realty partied? Surrounded by the clutter ot the the . festivities. Peter Akimoto remember the night before, the night of his first real party. Somehow, he had come of age. even it he wasn't the right age for what partiers often indulge in Example: You never really understood the true meaning of relief until the first time you broke curfew — but Mom and Dad were asleep when you got home, anyway. And who could have told you how great it would feel to cash in your first paycheck — from your first job? You had to experience it. You — on your own. For the first time. It might have been scary. It might have been new. But you did it. Because there’s nothing like that first-hand, first-time experience. After all. didn’t everything start ... with a first time? Nothing beats your first firsts 23

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The five things you dislike the most about school most of you listed having to get to drag your young body out of up so early lor school. More than bed hours before the sun was even anything else, you hated having up on a sub-zero winter morning Whoever said, Early to bed. early to rise. should be shot. More than anything else, you hated getting up at 6 a.m. for school, and you let your mother know about it. Next to getting up too early, you hated always being too hot or too cold in a building where thermostats were a 0 joke. Third, you said you hated having to be in school six hours a day. Well, fine, but wait until you have to work eight hours a day. Six hours, and just five minutes to get from class to class? Exactly when were you supposed to have time to gossip? 0 Fifth on your hit list were teachers. They gave too much work, marked you tardy, and knocked you over with smoker's breath. What you dislike about high school 25