Park Center High School - Pirate Yearbook (Brooklyn Park, MN)

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Mid-Day Break Where should we go for lunch today?” I need a break from school. How does Burger King sound ... or McDonalds? Can we get back in time?” With open lunch fast disappearing in many senior high schools. Park Center still allowed students to leave the building for the thirty minute lunch. This policy had been effect for the past ten years. Most students frequented McDonalds and Burger King, with some choosing 7-11 for their mid-day banquet. Chicken Chow Mein became Chick Cow Men . . . Fish Sandwich turned into Ish Sand . . . Before students even got a chance to sample one of the two entree choices offered daily in the main line, someone altered the selection slightly. State law required schools to offer a well balanced meal, featuring the four main food groups, to all students, and the main lunch line did just that with a wide variety found on the monthly menu. In addition to the mam course line, there was a soup and sandwich line and an ala carte line offering Stewart sandwiches. granola bars, cookies, chips and malts. Thirty minutes wasn't much time to eat a large meal, but somehow students were able to eat and socialize with friends while getting a much needed break from classes. Top left: Students stand in line for one of many carefully prepared lunches. Top right: Gary llcnningson washes down his lunch with a drink of milk Middle: Renae Pillc. Melissa Jensen and Kris Nelson enjoy a good joke during lunch, Bottom left: Burger King is a favorite outside source for lunch. Bottom middle: Bette Jo Andolino selects a granola bar from the ala carte line. Bottom right:Cook Gcri Wcstcrberg serves a delicious fried chicken lunch to Jeff Yct er.

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Pirate Pride Rolls Along With Good Times Courage, honesty, wisdom, and pride Friendship and caring They stood side by side They made us grow They'll make us die We were willing to learn willing to try We'd always keep going When the chips were down To the day we became a senior Our night in our gowns The colors we'd fly Will always be Green and Gold They stand for us Bright Brave and Bold The many times we'd wish for just one more credit One exciting night we ll never forget it Our days seemed so far Back to elementary school Reading and writing the golden role Times gone so fast In days we ll see The memories of the past Pirates you and me! Carol Sandberg

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Responsibility: Part Of Learning Although often unpopular, many of Park Center's policies were designed to build responsibility in the students, both to themselves and to the school. Four tardies in the morning earned one hour of detention with each succeeding tardy yielding an additional hour. Detention was handled either in the detention room, after school, or in the main office. If detention, both teacher and office, was not made up by the end of the trimester, grades were withheld, making attendance and grades closely related. The 1980-81 school year saw a great deal of vandalism and theft. Many lockers were broken into, resulting in the loss of much money, coats, purses, cameras, curling irons, etc. Much of the theft was due to improperly closed and broken lockers. Controversy mounted late in the fall with increasing litter at Hearth and Home, just west of the smoking area. Student council cleaned up the area and appealed to the smokers to halt all littering, which was ineffective. Litter, both in Park Center and outside, increased and, as a result, some priveleges were revoked. The smoking area was closed between classes, and, for several days, offerings in the ala carte line were limited. Students enrolled in Park Center had a lot of learning and recreational activities at their finger tips and all policies, both disciplinary and educational, were designed to give them the full benefit of all Park Center had to offer in the 1980-81 school year. Top: A drain by the smoking area shows a small part of the litter problem. Middle left: Julie DeSmilh and Michelle Meath pull on a damaged locker to demonstrate why theft often occurs. Middle top right: Food left on the cafeteria tables adds greatly to the litter problem Middle bottom right: Students sign in for a session of detention Bottom left: The smoking area gives students a chance for a break between classes. Bottom right: Part of the controversy results from the mess at Hearth Sc Home.