Kennedy High School - Profiles Yearbook (Bloomington, MN)

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tell Evoryone dread homework bui Manlisa Nelson and Koily Jensen find that studying with a friend tor a World Studio test 15 a whole lol easier and a llllle bit more fun Above Sharing a special moment in the shade sophomore Julie Walsh and Malt Henry take a bionk from a romantic lunch. The mid-afternoon tun help to warm their riverfront picnic ilo Lett For most student fall Friday night had a special reservation •— Ihe football game Jon Sable and Tom Schnrdm share a cheer lor their winning Eagle team r s

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rwogelher, you wenl the distance. ■ r t$ hockey games. To parties. To class. To movies. Even to lunch. And twogether, you had twice the fun. Made twice the mischief. Created twice as many memories. And got — almost — twice as much accomplished. Sure, you had lots of friends. But wasn't there orif special person who always laughted at your jokes? One person who knew .• what to say or sometimes knew enough r to say anything at all? Someone who liked the same music you liked, or did things you enjoyed doing? When you were with that person. , i, could be . You were free to have fun. Allowed to be proud of yourself. And entitled to your bad days. The two of you had good times together. You could talk Above loll As gome lirno near and tension grow, seniors Paul Grimm and Clill Porter offer their support to each other as they enter their last Homecoming game at Eagles for hours, and then call each other five minutes later with something you forgot to say. But it was more than that. It was knowing that there was someone who would stick by your side — at all times. The two of you were a pair. Inseparable Unconquerable Above Amy Tanner and Lisa Chnlleen add their cheers lo Twogether the roar of the football crowd 4

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T om-Cat: wasn’t he that sinister M cartoon feline who a vvs got ■ J the shaft? — Wrong. It was a computerized filing system, designed to replace the card catalog, that was installed in the JFK Resource Center this year. And it was the only one of its kind in any Minnesota high school. The State Department of Education funded this and other high-tech projects for the Bloomington school system this year, making it one of 15 Technology Demonstration Sites in Minnesota. Don’t worry. That didn’t mean that Kennedy had become a major Russian war target. It simply meant that you used thousands of dollars' worth of hard- and soft-ware free of charge. Because the stare was using you — 1400 of you who took some type of computer course this year — to test these new programs. Programs like televising live Spanish TV shows in the classroom — received via satellite. That's something you shared with only one other high school nationwide! These advancements were enhanced when Bloomington Schools received hundreds of computers from Control Data in partial payment for Lincoln Center. Thanks to these recent additions in your classrooms, the technology revolution didn’t leave you in the chipsl Right: A choir show video tape, to be used as a KTAV cable program, ia easily edited by Laura Welsandt and Don Specht with Konnody'a computerised tape editor. Below: High-tech computer newly written graphici program graphics animation intrigues Dave produce a changing image on Shephord as he watches his the computer screen.