South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Below: The balcony overlooking the common provided a perch for many student between daises and during lunch (except when they were kicked off). Below right: Sophomore Margot Garmers ulks to a friend in Mike Anderson's chemistry class. Above: Senior Alison Smith shares a cake from her Kris Kringle with Senior Amy Moore Drawing names for Kris Ktmgle was a holiday tradition among many groups of friends. Above right: Freshman Bryan Bowers shows the stress after staying up late to work on algebra Middle: Senior Chris Strom tosses a flower from Jane Austen's birthday cake into senior Matt Bakkom's anxiously waiting mouth, with seniors Ann Lippin. Alison Smith. Jeremy Kuliiheck. Padraic Taaffe. Amy Moore. Tia Sptlleth and Rob DeMoff watching on. Celebrating the famous writer's birthday was a tradition in Maureen Mashek's A P. English class. the school day

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 | It’s the same | day after day.” It’s Like Not • • • ... we enjoyed getting up at 6:00 a.m. It's not like we enjoyed walking, or running, the three blocks through the biting Minnesota air, uphill, to meet the big. yellowish, how • fast • can • you -get • it • off • the • assembly-line school bus. It's not like we enjoyed sandwiching our eighteen inch bodies together as we tried to reach our six inch wide lockers. It's not like we enjoyed that human pile-up that was always at the top of the commons staircase between every class. These were just parts of our schtx l day. A day that wasn't just filled with academics but consisted of a great deal of socializing: groaning to each other at 7:23 by the lockers, hi how are ya’ s in the hall between class, laughing and crying when the answer to a complex calculus problem was four, and making friends. It's a scary thought that those six hours, divided by the obnoxious electronic burps, were the core of our student life. The school day was when we met and got to know each other. It was when we planned most of the activities that we would do after suffering through the final beeps (which seemed to be a lot longer this year). Day after day we came, beep after electronic beep we sat. living out our four years of high school. Right: South students leave the school after sixth hour. Many people objected to the way students were forced to leave the building at the end of the day. Abote: Gocks from around the school building. the school day jMy ;

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Right: Rob Lee strikes a pose as the camera catches him during lunch. He was one of the many people who made the commons the most popular place to eat. I he best part of the day.” Lunchtime Lunch, to some of us the most important part of the day. A time to take a break from the usual school stress and to satisfy our hungers with a Whopper from Burger King, a school cafeteria lunch, or a lunch brought from home. Although the great majority of South students spent their lunch time in the commons it was surprising how many could be found in Burger King, Clark's, or even at Phil’s Grocery. Out of 100 students polled, 41 regularly ate a cafeteria lunch, 38 brought their lunches from home, and 21 ate lunch somewhere other than South High. This year, at South High, the cafeteria took on a major change as it strove to modernize itself. Along with the new dicipline policy new lunchtime rules and regulations were put into effect. For starters, all students were to stay on the First floor with their lunches for the entire lunch period and no food from outside of school was to be taken inside South. Changes were also made in South's cafeteria with the arrival of the new cash registers and the remodeling of the cafeteria itself. (lunch