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

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S uutye SeKteltl4K6 First comes the terror. Then the quiet expectation. And, ot lost, the knowledge thot onorher high school yeor, perhops the first, moybe the lost, hos begun. Everywhere you look, from the differences in the porking lot ond the people, you see something you've never seen before. New closses, new teochers. new friends. Everything is olive with chonge. And, It's not merely these stronge sensations. Even those things which seem fomilior hove subtley olrered themselves. But, along with the chonge, the yeor brings chances. Chonces to renew friendships neglected over the summer. Chances to finally meet thot excruciotingly gorgeous bobe you longed for lost yeor. Rare opportunities to involve yourself in school groups, to get your brain working ogoin after a balmy, hedonistic summer. New love affairs, brand new ways to cheot on tests (ond not ger caught!), fresh new concepts in illness. Every experience, every mood, every encounter. If you take the time to dive into life, it's like nothing you’ve ever seen before. Trust. — Jason Carter 4 — theme

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 The best parr about being one of rhe middlemen is rhar we hove rhe securiry ro leorn from rhe seniors, yer we ore becoming more responsible fhon losr yeor. Being o junior is your eosiesr yeor of high school. Ir is rhe yeor wirh rhe leosr omounr of stress. Many juniors think of ir os The yeor you con sir bock ond jusr ride rhe waves! Now, you hove ro think about pressure again os seniors next yeor. Whor ore you going ro do for o career? As one junior said: The sky is rhe limit ond I plon on reaching every cloud! — Down Wuornos Upper Left: Mcditotloo on o difficult class problem fokes everyone out. I'll bet you thought Drod Gustofson was sleeping! Middle Left: Mott Henke checks Kim Hendrickson's pulse to see If she'll survive the doss. Middle Right: Hugging themselves over their excitement from being sophomores ot Pork Center ore Rochelle Drown ond Christi Welfring. Bottom: Seniors Rule soys Vince Gorcio os he shows his Senior pridel Like rhe first breath of fresh oir on rhe srorr of o new day in spring, everything is happening. The birds ore chirping, the sun is shining, ond you're oil ready ro go! You hove waited yeors ond years for this doy, ond you deserve oil rhor's coming ro you. For the post yeor, you've counted down each doy for this very special occosion . . . your groduorion! School is finally over now ond it's your rurn ro proudly walk onro rhe stage for your diploma ond throw your cop in rhe oir wirh o huge smile on your face. After 12 yeors of going ro school every doy ond following rhe set rules. It's now time ro be able ro moke your own decisions os ro how you're going ro spend your new life. All this con also be quire frightening for you. You'll lose touch wirh mony friends, move our on your own, go ro college, or get o job, ond meet new people. You osk yourself: Am I ready? At this point, you soy good-bye ro Pork Center, leaving wirh o lor of memories that will stoy with you for rhe resr of your life! — Down Wuornos Theme — 3

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Rowm ■SHf GRAVES1 Opposite Page: Top: Tron Knutson notes, with high disgust, thot 20 minutes remain in his Chorodes class. Lower Left: A parent turns the comero eye in the opposite direction os the Homecoming Pepfest crowd explodes in o frenzy of opptouse. Lower Right: Pirote power QB Don Autey rips onorher hole in the floundering Armstrong defense This Page: Top Left: Sophomore Homecoming royalty Chris Carlson ond Michelle Shermers swoy to Olivia Newton-John. momentarily basking in the Coronation limelight. Lower Left: Lynn Combes tokes o breo!; from poeticolly contemploting outumn to mug for o picture Below: A token of graffiti affection odorns on exit door for a second yeor. Lower Right: Krissi Hogestuen is stunned os the Homecoming queen crown Is placed on her heod Theme — 5