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

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srudenr life (sroo' d'nr lif): academics (ak' -dem'iks): clubs (klubs): sports (sports): sophomore (sof -mor): junior (joon'yer): senior (sen'yer): (adj.) rhe various crazy ways sru-denrs spend rheir rime and money on during rhe school year .......20 (n) rhe srudies which ore greorly srressed by parenrs ond reochers ond of leosr imporrance ro a rnojor-iry of srudenrs .................50 (n) organizarions in which a group of srudenrs form rogerher in rhe hopes of making rheirs rhe mosr exclusive or elire ..............84 (n) rhe acriviries which creore jocks from orherwise overage people 112 (odj.) o person, generally confused and losr unril June, who is rhe lowesr of rhe underclassmen .............150 (odj.) a person who considers himself ro be knowledgeable abour Pork Cenrer bur is in reoliry only a grade higher rhon o sophomore 172 (odj.) a person, full of wisdom and wir, courage and rasre, who has succeeded in making ir ro rhe head of rhe doss. Number one ..........198

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What . . . Is A School? According ro Webster's New World Die rtonory, o school is a place or institution for reaching and learning; establishment for education. I’m sure everyone con come up with their own definition ranging from “o g-ear ptoce to “a prison. But. when you reafy think about it, oil a school really is, is a bulking ... An empty bulding rhor ts cold and fcfeless wirhour its people. ■ It's going ro hoppen ogoin. I con feel it in my bricks like I have for the past eleven years. Prerry soon there'll be no rime for this idle thinking because 11 be too busy trying ro keep myself together I hove ro admir I was getting o bit worried there for awhile until the edminisrrorion starred showing up It seemed like it was much too lore After all, how many rimes do I get occess ro a calendar during rhe summer? And it felt Ike yeers since June. Panic was beginning ro set in os I thought maybe they were dosing me down Ike poor old Robbinsdole Wnor o terrible fore! Bur, it's been feeing o lor edder lately so It hopefuSy won't be long until rhey all come rushing or me once ogoin. Oh, rhe jam-packed hallways, rhe over-crowded sroirwefc, all rhe bughrer, talk, ond noise! Compared ro this deadly sfence, it’s paradise! I con hordly keep myself from shifting with anticipation! Wait! What's that? It con'r be, bur it is! A bus! And here comes cnother one, and yet onorher one! And they're aft full. Nor on empty sear ro be seen! Time ro straighten these poor old bricks for onorher year and prove ro them that Paris Cenrer is still number one ond always wS be! As long as they're here, that is ... Top HonJ a wav. Mr» botogy oob AW Lett ftcow no ircf poutv’ Mk Haon ore K y KajvcA fcntx'9 r a«y rowj hi ‘ooir-y. r o cawg dcti Bottom ltd: Thu ciou 1howl rfvpc rve»«i y rkw Scwyvj ( oifrc Doran r h CM M -r. Cro$ Moy. iai Tana .- 0r pfanr vj wfor mey or ro do c rtr vrea 5