Neil A Armstrong High School - Gyre Yearbook (Plymouth, MN)

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In winter. the routine was even more. Thoughts which should have been on school were on Christmas vacation. Easter vacation, or summer vacation. We moped around, not knowing where to begin on homework, knowing only that it was a great day for skiing and we were stuck inside a building. No wonder the highlight was the Snow Day. tAnd even then we had to get up to listen to WCCOJ Different people sought relief in different ways. To ease semester change tension. Pep Club sponsored Sno Daze. Both the pep fest and soc hop went over big-at least in attendance. The Drama department presented the one-act. 'Ario De Capo' and sponsored a one-act festival for area schools. And the gymnastics people spent their Thursday evenings winning. The building became a meeting place, hosting the declamation contest and regionals. There were a few broken windows from visitors over-anxious to get in, but it went unmentioned. Winter . a . depressing, boring, long, for most it was the uninteresting middle between readjustment and openingJ

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r N itWe found out soon enough that the honeymoon was over. It was about time that we got down v 5A2 , Wiing M MM; . t-EWufg-MAKMHg to the business of education. tighten up. But kids were either wrapped up with the victorious Falcons or the Moratorium or . .. ii ' Those returning to Armstrong in fall found a y'ALL A MHWAR omitrrsz r; W is building where a school had stood the year before. i ' The walls were to remain white, after all. Rumors OCT . spread: teachers felt students could handle 2570 ,3 MGR NIORIUM , , Xmm more homework, the administration planned to 25 VET i DAY ' STUDENT STRIiiEt Faced with the possibility of apartments in our y NAVL PEACE ACRON wa backyard, a Hsave the woods committee was formed. Kids went out on their free mods to pick up trikes, 3T0 P NHKON silos, tires and otherthings students leave behind. , JOE NT 3M3 They went up against the school board, too, but not CAL L 331.. 3351 much came fromit. I . SMG REP A soc hop and donut dunk came out of the Homecoming LECT RM iAi hassle. More importantly, there was participation. WEB :2 40 TO The three day ttimprove or else ultimatum was not 2 4G unexpected. The Clampdown was. More importa nt than DRGP BY EJURT VG TREE the number of coats which now had to stay in lockers MODS was the feeling among students that the administration really could lay down some rules. And some pretty reasonable ones at that. In fall we readjusted ourselves to new faces, policies and priorities. And the mood was set. 2q32717 uaggz' gea447 I

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