North High School - Polaris Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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m IN SPRING ’82, We did not think of ourselves as the “new” North. Our older and brothers and sisters, our parents, and our community, perhaps, still thought of us as replacing the “real” North that had been housed in the old building. But we knew that a building doesn’t make a school. People do. We had begun our high school careers on this campus. We were comfortable in our familiarity with the buildings, the staff, and with each other. If we thought of it at all, we considered ourselves as a continuation of the spirit and traditions of the past. Polar Pride lives on in us, and North is still North after all ... 2

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In the files we found photographs that had been taken during the last school year. Some of the people we recognized from our classes, but others, we knew, had graduated and gone on to new challenges. How would we compare with those who went before us? Would our teams win? Would our class measure up to the example set by the graduates of the past? Would North be proud of us? The faces in the pictures expressed some of the things that we were feeling — joy. determination, energy. The faces also expressed pride and satisfaction. How would we feel, we wondered, when our year was over? Looking back, we discovered, was forcing us to look ahead.