Kennedy High School - Profiles Yearbook (Bloomington, MN)

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Watching and waiting As you sat in class watching the clock, a feeling came over you. You just couldn’t go on with the day. You needed a change, you needed to escape, you needed to get out of class. So a plan formed in your mind. It would be easy. It would be simple. You could get out of next hour. You could even manipulate the situation so you'd end up verified. No computer would call your parents with a message of doom! Then you'd have an hour to regain the sanity that the pressures of school had caused you to lose. The ways to get out of class were endless. Forged passes, lame excuses expressed with great emotion to sympathetic teachers, talking with counselors for entire class periods, visiting the resource center on some supposedly important mission — the only question was which method would work this time. So you pondered and planned However, just as soon as the idea became more solid in your mind, you remembered the very reason for your being in school. It was more than a brick building that you spent at least QVt hours a day in. school was a place to meet people, a place to laugh with friends, participate in activities, and. yes ... even to learn. The bell rang and you walked slowly through the halls, dreaming up lists of ways to get out of class. Verifying hit absence, Andy Robarge shows his desire to live on the edge by calling in trom right outside the attendance window. Being daring was part of being a senior, part ot wanting to be unique, part ot being driven crazy by Physics. Analysis, and English. However, while Andy sees his plan as being perfectly logical. Assistant Principal Edward Donahue sees the wanted poster on the wall and the name and the crime do lit .... Scalping paasea was sometimes a better profit maker than a part-time lob. Not only was the money attractive to the seller, but the clientele also enjoyed the benefits ol the productive. Leaving class was a privilege worth various values to ditlerent people. Pass scalper Chris Napier carelutiy considers whether a mere dollar was enough lor sophomore Mike Heck to pay lor one ol his authentic-looking passes. £ 26 Watching

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Disgusting as ... A day old chimichanga Dodging chimichanga death. junior Tim Anderson uses his acid-proof tray to shield himsetf from the molten tomato paste and Peel about to erupt from the decaying Mexican food Holding their mugehota, Steve Ambroe and Kan Docter despair at the poor quality of the r school pictures. While most students at JFK also took stmilary shocking pictures, this fact does not comfort them one bit Boring as ... Unusual as ... A teacher stopping you in the hall to make conversation getting good school pictures A thousand adventures Talking ‘111 nightime. Mr. into a lengthy and thorough ■ :■ bach's friendly little chat lecture on the virtues of a • untor Sara Johnson turns passbaU and chin ups Few things 2S !

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Teachers' pets like junior Pet Dwyer often wander the quiet halls during class. Taking long routes on errands to places like production was a sure way for apple polishers to escape a classroom. Chronic illness was not the reason Debbie Benson missed class. Her active imagination was the source of her various medical problems By winter. Debbie and Ms. Brobera are close enough to exchange gifts. Mobbing a dosed career center, students are disappointed by the lack of college reps.; disappointment caused not by any great interests but because hearing about a school — any school — was a chance to miss class. For the perfect chance WktcNng 27