North High School - Polar Bear Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Mixers Are Thumbs Up! With the basketball season in full swing, many times throughout the season, fans were treated to after games mixers in the student center. For many, it was a chance to get together with friends. For others, it was a chance to practice the latest disco steps and moves. Whatever the reason, mixers helped to bring the student body even more together. Phil Gould and Brett Cole show how they feel about the Mixers weren ' t only for dancing, many used the time just to talk to friends.

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Dealing With the ' 80 ' s The 70 ' s-the decade of the Kent State demon- strations, America ' s 200th birthday, gas lines and half price pumps, the Patricia Hearst abduction, the Camp David peace summits, the nuclear acci- dents at three mile island, Watergate, the Arab at- tack on the Munich Olympics, the Iranian revolu- tion, Nixon ' s trip to Peking, Pope John Paul ll ' s historic tour of the U.S., Americans being airlifted from Saigon, the first president to reign without popular vote, the mass Jim Jones suicide and the Soviets angered the world by invading Afghani- stan. The 70 ' s proved to be a decade of turbulence and unrest. Will these events have a profound ef- fect on the 80 ' s? Only time will tell. ]: Dana Meadows and Roger Marean practice the tech- , nique of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), which was offered for the first time at North. 2: Shelley Furgason and Renee Allensworth model the school jacket and , lettersweater that were so popular at NHS this year. 3: Pope John Paul II visited Des Moines for the first time in Iowa history. 4: Val Alksnis tours the Des Moines Botanical I Center which opened this year.