St Louis Park High School - Echowan Yearbook (St Louis Park, MN)

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and Future Tribulations Guess I'll just put my hood down for a few seconds and let my homework go for o few more doyl. Just another day? No, it's tho beginning of Howard Shapiro's lifo as a senior. Those hours do not soom to stimulate any excitement for him. This is no coffee breakl It's senior Dianne Wickizcr of ono o'clock in the morning against timo and sleep to finish her homework. The confident ottitudos and actions of soniors are portrayed by Bob Knutson's thoughts. Notico the bewildered looks on the faces of the new sophomores os they try to find their closscs. 9

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First Day Impressions Through our school's portals, students of all kinds are educated for their future life as an adult. Since we spend the majority of our school time in the classroom, this Academic Section is devoted to protroying the lives of the students in St. Louis Park Senior High School. Through these pages we want to depict the trials and tribulations of the students from the first to the last day of school when we, the students, possess the feeling of accomplishment. Visions of senior boys form in this sophomore girl's mind. As she odds that extra touch, she hopefully asks this question, Mirror, mirror on the wall, will any of thorn like me of all? Oceans of students seem to perplex Donna Halloran os she becomes transfixed by the sight of our school's immensity. 8

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Languages Form Our Foreign languages, an important part of education at Park, have at the present time 533 enrolled students. The four language classes, French, German, Latin and Spanish, attempt to develop a greater understanding of their respective country's history, customs and people. The spoken language is stressed, that is the student hears the sounds of the words and then associates them with reading and writing. Senior high English continues the development of skills in the four areas of the language arts,- they are: listening, reading, speaking and writing. Literature is studied to develop more mature understandings of various ideas and works. In recent years the English program has been revised to consider the individual differences in student abilities. Translator , grammarian and scholar . Grammar and vocabulary are not the only things the Latin student assimilate. Observance of the past is pictured by these student contemplating the ancient history of the city of Herculoneum. Tom Griffiths isn't being examined by Doctor Nelson. She 5 just helping him pronounce hi French with the u e of a now device, the mirror. The first year French students ore being given the opportunity to express their French by acting out plays. Because of the skills that ore acquired from taking first and second year French, the students aro able to enjoy reading works from the realm of French literature. Please, please, Kathy Connor pleads as she tries to coax her class to agreo with the viows of her persuasive speech. Although one may not realize how important speech is, if is evident that wo depend upon persuasion in every phoso of our lives. This year there is a total of 235 speech students enrolled In either of Mr. Doclercq's or Miss Litsheim's classes. 10