Kennedy High School - Profiles Yearbook (Bloomington, MN)

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Reach out anc uess who Amy’s hot for? I sat right by her at the game Friday night and she never took her eyes off No. 32. Right. Dave. Think they’re going out? Heard anything about them? Right: Pass it on? Kris Mascotti can hardly wait to cat! her friend and tot her know the latest gossip. Right: Of course Stove Workman knows the story He's the one who started it in the first place o. That’s what’s going on. And I think she looks like she’s put on weight. Yeah. That’s right. And she’s always wearing loose sweaters and sweats, too. Right: When Shawn Olson talks, people listen. He really does know what he's talking about Right? Bay. didja hear about Amy? I mean, it’s sick. Well after the game I heard she met up with half the team under Cedar Bridge. I didn’t know she was that kind. Right: It's unbelievable but Mike Van Blaricum's got the facts or at least some of them. h. my gawd. I bet they are. I saw her waiting in the school parking lot after the game. Hey — I heard about some couple really going at it later under Cedar Bridge. Uh — It’s ingenious 26 Telephone Gossip

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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

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ruin someone has lining her locker. I knew she’d changed. But this — she’ll have to quit school. L ft: Well heard it from Shawn, who heard it from ... ” Tara Barthetemy spreads the latest news. robably. And there are a lot of nervous guys in the locker room. Something about blood tests and a dead rabbit. I heard. Somebody's gonna pay for this. collection. For Amy. To send her away. I hope she likes kids, ’cause I heard it’s twins. Ltll: It may only be a rumor, but Jodi Halvorson wastes no time in phoning her friends OSSip. It has three basic parts: a telephone, at least two students, and of course, someone to talk about. It starts out at 2:05 as a simple unconfirmed rumor. By 7:30 the next morning, however, it has developed into a complete novel with at least ten more characters than in the original version. Full of exaggeration and devoid of fact, gossip has little to recommend it. except that everyone loves to listen to it. And. like it or not. everybody eventually becomes grist for the mill. Your only recourse? Deny everything and leave town m not surprised. Ever since I saw all those GQ pictures she L«ti: Hard to believe? Yes. but Brian Bern forces himself to accept the truth of the matter. Wow! THIS IS BIG! I guess the whole team is taking up a little It’s genuine gossip Telephone Gossip 21