Minnetonka High School - Voyageur Yearbook (Excelsior, MN)

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Spirit and Apathy 27 Spirit. let’s hear it get involved Who cares? People generally liked to get involved and cheer for their school, but there were those who showed no interest. How many people knew the words to the school song, or even wanted to know? Did people support the athletes that competed all year? Each year the spirit is different, determined by the student body and their attitudes toward the school. In most cases, it has been the juniors and seniors with all the spirit, but during the 77-78 school year, the sophomores proved the past to be wrong. They formed a spirit committee and attempted to be recognized b' holding regular meetings to organize plans and to accomplish what they had set out to do. Buttons displaying the great class cf 1980 were sold outside of the commons, generally just trying to ge everyone involved. At the beginnin j of the year, there were those w io may have asked: “What’s a sophomore?”, but as the year progressed, they realized that the sophomores were the ones who really knew how to show that they cared. PAGE 26 — Top left: Patti Rand and Scott Angle show some spirit at the Homecoming dance. Top right: Sue Schottler and Lisa Lee sit in the mam hall. Lower left: Sandi Olson seemed to say: Who cares!” as she decided to rest while the rest of the class listened to a lecture. Lower right: Cathy Hartman and Sue Froyd agree that Tonka is on the top this year. PAGE 27 — Top left: Totally bummedout was the feeling. Top right: Ellen Anderson makes her day a little brighter by smiling. Center left: Kathy Titus and Betsy Krig go to one of the dances. Center right: Cheryl Smith sums up the word ’spirit’ with her expression.

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Dances 29 he Disco craze. As with everything else that begins on the East coast, we watched New Yorkers hustling on the dance floors of Brooklyn long before it ever reached the Minneapolis discos. But, when it eventually I ame, it got a hold on everyone .vho was into dancing! Some lard rock fans eventually evan egan to bump and boogie to lusic from all sorts of disco :omposers. Bar owners, who :ad seen a change coming, Wisely began to rearrange their i stablishments, being able to | -redict that within a short time Minneapolis-St. Paul would be | poking for places to ‘get down.’ II hit the high schools too, along with everyone else. Teen-age discos began popping up for younger crowds all over the cities. Discotrek,” a take-off on Star Wars, was built in f.agan right around the time that Saturday Night Fever” hit the movie screens, and it was just what the kids seemed to need. For once, trying to get into Uncle Sam’s with a phony I.D., was no longer necessary. Disco music drifted over into school sponsored dances as well. The Christmas dance was a disco first at M.H.S., when we danced to records instead of a band. Clothes created by disco-goers gave meaning to the old saying: Imitation is the best form of flattery. You wouldn’t dream of going out on the town to boogie in a pair of Levis and a sweater. Instead, clothing manufacturers created disco-wear for up and coming disco maniacs, consisting of silky, satiny dresses worn with high thin heeled shoes and three piece vested suits, all of which were supposedly to make you appear to be right in the height of fashion. It used to be that Homecoming and Prom were slow PAGE 28 — Top left: The band •‘Ryzer played at a few of the school dances. Top middle: Roger Ellsworth and his date enjoy the dancing at the Lafayette Club. Top right: David Cermak enjoys the music right next to the band. Middle left: Anita Peerman, Patty Lane and Pete Feldmeier. Lower: Leanne Peterson and Holly Binger at the Voyageur canteen. PAGE 29 — Top left: Sue Walker and Jill Robertson dance the Robot” at the Christmas dance. Lower left: Kris Mitchellette’s date pins her corsage on. Right: The Homecoming dance provided Paula Ersbo and Billy Kiefer with a variety of tunes to dance to. mellowed out events. Not so anymore! Dance, Dance, Dance” has become a theme song.