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

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Neil A. Armstrong- Where were you when we really needed you? 1971-72 at Armstrong was when the novelty wore off. The? were no split shifts, no lack of facilities, no excuses if we made mistakes. We settled into a routine. The atmosphere was more down to business. But the attitude of the students wasn't. The kids were as sophisticated as the Armstrong concept, refusing to be molded into tradition or fall for any dishonesty. Jocks and freaks were equally popular- if popularity was that important. There were very few ujoiners . Most got involved because they wa nted to. not because it was the thing to do or looked good on the records. 80 organizations were hurting and nobody went to the games and we were labeled llapathetic. The feeling in the halls was tense, anticipatory. Later it became lax and kids did what they wa nted-until the clampdown, which didn't help much. Teachers were disgusted with the system and its results. They had assumed that with all the new facilities and variety of courses, students would settle down to work. Perhaps they assumed too much. When the novelty wore off, we realized the policies set up the year before pertained to us. Some of us couldn't adapt, so the greater part of the year was spent redefini ng the Armstrong concept. There was a lot of questioning, by both faculty and students, of administrative policies, spirit things and freedom-responsibility issues, because nobody was really satisfied with what Armstrong had to offer. Some will interpret this as a lot of failure. Others will call it our success story. We view it as a willingness to change.

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,3 May .. 1 MM: ,4 5 wwwiw You rm Not us a ngwreTs why; , a h at: 9E 5; $775 in$ nay' g 5 N ..4 made th IS bo 0ng ,' , Q wteach Students th ciasses We' ye presented them .4 nts in pastel coldrs. In fact, we 'Q n't gong to use any gimmicks at all, except the I1 f5t . Perhaps yearbooks are dying beCause of the staff's dishmiesty. They teii the year the way they'd like to see it', rather thanithe way the kids made it. Or they fan to express the mopd. Take the waif Chris? as ,yfti'ee on the oppoSit'e page. We didn t put itihere rabecaUSe it had Something to do with Christmas or eVengbecause a tree might symbolize growth It s , Is Our chV is honeSt and conqrse our layouts are at the leading magazines are doing Some Ygarpeok judges are; gomg to rip us apart for, 5m5ng other things, the way we hahdied Qur fastuity At Armstrongmstructorg are peopie who s 5:5 onks do In 14 .5 3w. 'wymther thing agfut honesty A student doesn't see the ye; Iggysipory IC spurts, but rather as it comes i ' ,; ee that ', that season. We' ve divided our'ko5k ihattvggd pause it lets everything fall In its plaoQ, chronoWally Fall and winter include their sports and actIVItIes and the peopie you see or hear most about that time of year. This is not to say that the yearbook ii '5 toward certain death or even that: theffway to save it. We're juStsay ,lrepresentative of Armstrongin 1971- 72, leaning ,5 toward something Slightly off 5 I got a great gimmick. eret's. tell the truth. A A -N M. Ohrbach deSIgner of VW ads 4w . v .