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

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They didn't see our seemingly endless rehearsals or exhausting team practices. They weren't listening when we spent hours discussing Homecoming, Domestic Exchange and Prom. They must have missed our original movies for Electric Humanities or all the caramel apples we consumed at the football games. Sometimes our spirits sagged a bit, but even the thought of the weekend just around the corner lifted our spirits enough to complete the week with something that resembled enthusiasm. If we didn’t fulfill their expectations of our generation, we fulfilled our own expectations with the activities we chose to do. Our generation has been named by some as apathetic, selfish and generally un-school oriented. But those who called us that must not have looked very hard for our spirit. spirit Theme 9

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Hot lunches went from 45 t to 50 t. More people went on diets. Levi cords rose from $11 to $13.50. Worn overalls were good enough for everyday. Gasoline fluctuated between 46.9 and 52.9. City buses were still free. Sugar prices soared upward at 88 t per pound. Chocolate chip cookies were made of crystallized gold and penny candy was no longer a penny. The list went on and on — we could not escape the shadow of inflation. Sometimes we found it difficult to keep our tolerance as high as the rising prices, but we rationalized in our minds that the more important things in life were still free. Theme • 11