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

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Above: Leslie Nouho works port-time offer mid-term groduorion so rhoi she con eorn enough money to enter college In the spring quorter. Mid-Term Grads Prepare for Future Getting o head storr on their futures wos what the four students who groduored ot mid-term hod on their minds. Some simply wonted to end their high school years and get on with life. Others, like Julie McCollum planned on entering college right owoy. Going to work wos onother plon that some, like Leslie Nouho. hod In mind. But. for whatever reoson, these seniors chose o common gool that wos nor easily attained. Mr. Thompson, twelfth grade counselor, commented. It's getting border ond horder to get enough credits because of the increase of required credits. Nouho olso commented. I hod to hove o full schedule oil through high school except for my senior year.” McCollum hod o rather unique reoson for her decision. She planned on going into o home economics field offer high school. The only problem wos that she hod completed oil of the dosses available in rhor deportment by the end of her junior yeor. I ron our of dosses to toke, wos her reoson for choosing on eorly groduorion. She hod even gone os for os to student oide for o Home Economics teocher. I plon to work afternoons ond enter college In the spring quorter, Nouho stored. She wos onxious to sove money for her future educorion ond found thot this would be on opportune time to put In more hours ot her job. Because of their hard work ond coreful planning, these seniors were able to move oheod ond graduate from high school six months before their clossmores. Rkhord Gurewlrz Corol Gustafson Seniors 29 Dionne Gosrofson Jocquelin Holl Julie Horn Michael Hammer Mork Hommertund

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Suson Friedman JenrWer Fruetel Gorrert Fulton Abble Furmonsky 'John Golomboi •Mork Globus TometoGnlot Chrtylne Gohmonn SusonGrohom ‘Bruce Greenberg Jone Greeny em Sreven Gtehl Mary Gu ckson Above: Julie McCoftum prepores on entree of French orvon soup to oet her future educotlon In home economics oo eorly yort on 26 Seniors

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Adulrhood Brings Fun, Responsibility The 18th blrrhdoy wos the turning polnr when seniors were considered odults. Freedoms, rights, ond privileges were the odvontoges. yet mony rimes they were overshodowed by new responsibilities. Droft registration wos o big controversy involving the eighreen-year-old moles of the class of 1984. With risk of legal penolty facing them, they hod to decide whether or not to register ond become port of o list the government hod to choose soldiers from, or refuse to register ond become o conscientious objector. A senior, wishing to remain anonymous, sold, I don't think about why; I just know I won't register. Either woy, the droft registration wos a tangible reality seniors were forced to grosp. Another woy seniors exercised their legal right os odults wos by voting in the local elections. I voted ond it wos really interesting. It went foster ond wos eosier than I would hove thought. soid Pot Wlllioms. Porenrol pressure wos something seniors hod to understand. Expectations were high to be responsible ond oct mature. The often heord phrose You're on odult nowl become o pure onnoyonce. The thought of life after high school terrified them, but ot the some time the prospect of being on their own wos exciting. College oppllcotions brought pressure ond the woy students handled the decision of where to go to school showed just how mature they hod become. Along with becoming legal odults, the doss of 1984 come closer to becoming mature individuals. •lodd Hommond Rtckle Hortew Above: Rocky Cor boo tokes on the possibty Me-oltering step of registering for the droft. 30 Seniors Koren Morris Daniel Horwood Dooglos Haugen •Poul Helilcksoo Cory Hempel