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

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Locd Newii 6 7 Power Lin© Minnoapolis St. Paul Burnsville T ach rs r inciuaeo wioenmg nignway I uu at Cedar Lake Road Bike paths at Isles and Harriet were closed tor renovation. New construction included a Montgomery Ward store where Park Knoll school once stood MEDIA FORMATS were shuffled as ABC dropped channel After ABC picked up NBC affiliate 5, NBC shifted to independent channel 11............ leaving channel 9 as the independent POLITICS Although it was an off election year, state races were noteworthy...;. Primaries brought the defeat of Don Fraser by DFL party-splitter Bob Short.............. Sly campaign tactics by Wendell Anderson and Rudy Boschwitz caused Saturday Night Live to spoof Minnesota politics..... 'I his is ei-X Service ending news briefs.

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to 0o« u Stafa This is Tel-X Service with news briefs of Minnesota Gc ahead Dateline: 1978-79 ........ Print: WEATHER and DISASTER RADAR alerted us to summer flooding in Rochester. mosquitos that transmitted encephilitis and Calvin Griffith s speech to the Waseca Lion's Club FASHION FIRSTS were a Gucci store in Minneapolis and Calvin Klein designer leans RIOTING CROWDS at the Rolling Stonesconcert forced St. Paul to reconsider holding such events ........ flatus Eriaf CONSTRUCTION within the Twin Cities

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. . . October 1978 . . .Up until seven months ago school spirit at Park was bottled up. Then, the Orange Crush frenzy of the Boys State Basketball Tournament shook up our school until the spirit exploded — we had figuratively. popped our cork. We had surprised the media, the community and even ourselves that our seemingly apathetic school could overflow with so much spirit. After that. Park was never quite the same. The tournaments ended and the cork was put back on the bottle, but the ingredients remained active. Memories of Orange Crush lingered on, and Orange Power was added to our vocabulary. Spirit was not confined to wearing Orange and Black and cheering at games — it existed in the behind the scenes efforts that made activities successful. Students spent their M.E.A. break building sets, they drilled for soccer in 90° heat and members of the KDXL staff were at school and ready to broadcast by 6:30 a.m. Never before had so many people participated in Homecoming activities. Activity buses were full, since being involved was the ‘'in thing to do. The enthusiasm and desire to make St. Louis Park 1 in everything was there. We were just waiting for some special event that would shake up the brew and make our school spirit explode once more. AO©0