Richfield High School - Aurean Yearbook (Richfield, MN)

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Kindergarten to Senior Making it through How many crayons does your box have? How about a sharpener? What comes after eleventeen? What should I bring for show and tell? Whose kickball team are you on during recess? Did you get invited to Sally's birthday party? Boy germsl Is that Guess, Izod, Forenza or Espirit you're wearing? Can your parents drive or do we have to walk? You're going with who? Who can drive? Was it the expositions of Sagen and Crick that exemplified the law of parsimony regarding interspecies embryonic transplantation and deoxyribonucleic acid? What is the meaning of life? Lowell VandeKamp, grades K, 3, 8, 12. Noelle Wessman, grades 1, 3 7, 12. Growing Up 19

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Growing up, facing change Just think of all the changes one experiences before graduating from high school. Remember the first day of school? Priorities were tying your shoes correctly and getting home in time for Sesame Street. As elementary school progressed, the days of school seemed infinite — if it hadn't been for recess, getting through a single day would have been unbearable. Girls and boys avoided each other like the plague and the abundance of spare time was spent with Cub Scouts, Bluebirds and television. And how could one forget nights at the rink, rollerskating. Junior High brought a taste of independence and responsibility. Teachers began to actually assign homework (like insect reports and speeches). Boyfriends, girlfriends, cliques, and Friday-night football games at the big high school played an important part in the development of students. , - Then suddenly high school was upon you. As a child you thought all waiters and cashiers were adults, but now you find yourself applying for those same jobs. Of course, it is also at this time one attains the ultimate symbol of freedom, the driver's license. High school students are then faced with many new and different questions. What classes should be taken? What activities should be joined? Who should be asked to the dance? What colleges should be applied to? But most of all, as students grow and approach adulthood they face decisions concerning the future. And as each year comes Tonya Hansen, grades 2, 4, to a close, another step is taken Jeremy Horowitz, grades K, 7, 12. toward reaching those goals that 3, 8, 12. have been nurtured throughout the years spent in school. 18 Growing Up

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THE TALL and short of it People come in many different shapes and sizes. Students at Richfield High School are no exception. Most of them, it seems, would love to change one or two of their features. For some the dream is to be taller or shorter. Brenda Leviton is 4'7 and dislikes almost everything about her height. I'm known and teased as the 'short one' a lot, she said. According to Brenda the only advantage of being that short is that she feels the drinking fountains were built especially for her. Charlie Savisik, on the other hand, would like to be two inches shorter than his 6'5 . Yet an advantage of being so tall he said is that, I'm perceived as older so I can go out with older people. However, life isn't perfect at 6'5 . To the builders of RHS he says, Move up the drinking fountains! Whether short, tall, pudgy, skinny, blond, or brunette everyone has a common factor and that is we are all students of RHS. This diverse group of students is one of the things that makes Richfield the best of high schools. (•(• Reaching the top shelf of my locker is difficult but I really don't mind my height at all. One of the advantages is that it's easy to weave in and out of school. Paul Spinner (12) BACK TO BACK (right) - Juniors Charlie Savisik and Brenda Leviton display the great difference in their heights. 20 Tall And Short Of It