Richfield High School - Aurean Yearbook (Richfield, MN)

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Above, Greg Hoff lander; Hey. school is cool!'4 Right, Fred Boh tad starts his English theme an entire week before it’s due. Left.• The Spartans put their practice into play. Lefti Nancy Duke performs at the Homecoming coronation. Below, Practising before the big game. Opening 5

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Rightt Pat Dickey researches his next history theme in the media center. Below. The friendship between Lisa Hoffman and Maria Bernston brightens their day. I i hether in academics, sports, I M f or the arts, there was alls w ways something special. The late hours spent doing loads of homework never marred the feeling of doing well on a test-, they only made it better. Long, tiring practices never dulled the elation of winning or the thrill of performing; they only made it more special. Sometimes it seemed as if the work would never end, as if the only reason for our existence was work of one kind or another. But then a break would come, a night with no homework, a party with friends getting together for gossip or for talk about the future, and things wouldn’t seem so bad after all. 4 Opemng r

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Below Jane Muttvain and Tony Stroud find that their friendship is a security blanket. P ven small, seemingly ordinary occurences contri f . buted to making the year special: best friends dressing up as twins during Homecoming Week, people wearing red and white outfits on the day of the big game, seniors chanting at the pep fests, flaunting their position. Teachers decorated their rooms,• kids fixed up their lockers to look like a second home; and there were occasional bursts of color on the hall bulletin boards to brighten things up. Even the way the an nouncements started, every day, with three off key bangs on the xylophone was special, because it was ours. It was a RICH experience.