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

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 o goined confidence in the Twins os the room come within inches of the Locol mosicton. Prince, tode to stordom with the success of his movie ond oibum i ttfle. Purple Rain. John DeLoreon stood trial for cocoine smuggling, supposedly used os o moons of baling out his bonkrupt automotive company. He was acquitted rs o o o :15

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Outside influences beyond the halls ot Park. Beyond our doily privore concerns obout teachers ond dosses ond port-time jobs toy mony outside influences on our lives. The toil end of 1964 wos filled with them — some challenging, some exciting, some sod or dreadful. The Vikings new heod cooch. Les Sreckle, brought In the Marine Woy of troining in on effort to moke them leon ond meon. The system didn't seem to hove on effect or the srort of the seoson because there were mony problems such os troining, contracts ond o losing record. The expert from Arkonsos. Lou Holtz, experienced much the some thing with the Minnesota Gophers. The Pork schools got o new superintendent on November 1. Corl Holmstrom. Whot his effect on us would be, no one knew oheod of time Would he cut budgets? Would he improve programs? We would hove to leorn os the yeor went along. We lost some of the entertainment from our lives with the deaths of actor Richord Burton ond blues singer Alberto Hunter. We cheered with excitement or mooned in ongulsh when the Detroit Tigers won the World Series. Picking up o newspoper we leorned with dismoy of the further bombings in Lebanon, the ottempt on the life of the Prime Minister of England, ond the ossossinotion of Indiro Gondhi. We wondered how these events would affect our futures. But In the foil of '64 we were oil influenced by one dote: November 6. For thot wos election doy. the doy thot Ronold Reogon. ond oil the policies ond progroms he represented, won his bid for o second term os President. Gerakfcne Ferroro become the first womon ever nocrxnored for the vice presidency 14: Outside Influences

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HERE WE GO...