Minnetonka High School - Voyageur Yearbook (Excelsior, MN)

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Renee Hoppe and Cathy Erickson going out to lunch. They were the lucky ones that drove to school. With the gas problem, in a few years it will probably cost more to drive to Taco than to eat there. A Natural High. This was Julie Ranfranz’s goal in 1980. take to the sky and overcome the art of flying. She’s been taking her flying lessons in Waconia, Minnesota, and is going for fifty hours training which she'll need to get her pilot's license. As you’d expect she says the weirdest thing about flying is all the controls. There is one thing for sure about Julie, you'll never catch her stuck in traffic on 494. She's flying! Transportation 19

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Shelly Zahn got back to the basics using real horse power . She has been active with horses for years. WATCH OUT —THIN ICE! This winter John Uran was never seen without his Yamaha. I N For those hard to get to places! Whether it was the Brainard mud hole. Baker Road, or his neighbor's yard, John Tuthill’s CJ5 made it through. Hey buddy can you spare a ride? Everybody was always going somewhere and it wasn't always good to come up with a car. So Sanford Paulsen Let his fingers do the walking. Most people ended up hitchhiking when good old mom didn't show up with the car and you were already a half hour late for work. Hitchhiking is about the only free transportation and it does get you there. 18 Transportation

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VN Easy come easy go. Students at Minnetonka found out how easily money could go. Having a job became a necessity as inflation pushed prices higher. Movies moved up to four dollars and the price of gas it took to get there went over a dollar a gallon. On a grander scale inflation could be monitored by the price of gold which skyrocketed to S633.00 an ounce in London. The worth of a dollar was constantly declining and everyone felt the pinch. The luxury of driving a car to school, clothes, partying and just having fun with your friends left students with very little money left to save and often left a spender penniless and wondering where the money went. Doughnuts even went up to 25C in the Ala Carte room. Rising inflation was inescapable and spending hard earned money was inevitable but it can't be denied that saving money made lots of cents! 20 The Dollar