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

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Friends don’t let friends drive drunk Every ten minutes o person dies in on outo Occident. Of every six fotolities. there ore three drunk drivers. One in three is o teenoger. This statistic and others like If ore whot coused Robert Anosrost to stort Students Agolnst Driving Drunk (5ADD) in Woylond. Mossochusetts, in 1980. A choprer was begun or Pork in eorly December by seniors Morty Dlkkers, Judy Hughes. Jody Grogerr. Beth Knudson. Mory Estep, Jennifer Feiges, Tereso Byrd ond their adviser Richard Hyllsted. It started os o smoll ideo thor exploded. Hughes said. SADD deals with o contract colled o Contract for Life. It Involves both teenagers ond parents. This contract states thot the porent will agree to pick up their teenagers when they've been drinking or pay for o toxi. In return the teenoger promises not to drive drunk or be in o cor with o drunk driver. Seniors mode up the majority of the seventy plus SADD members. They were optimistic about the program's success or Park ond hoped thot people would continue to be involved. Robert Mory Oouglos John Erion tsrep Folk Fechter David Todd Fogel Folkerts Michelle Michael Adviser R. Hyllsted. J. Grogerr. J Hughes, 0. Knudson. M Dlkkers. M. Estep, i. Feiges ond J. Dyrd discuss the sole o Fozo Fronson SADD key rings. 26: Friends don't lei friends drive drunk

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Norolie Friedman •Diane Gaffney Orion Andrew Gall Galvin Your excuse: Don’t leave home without it How many rimes did you wake up on Monday morning, squinr or your olorm clock ond go bock ro sleep because you were sure it wos Sunday? Well probobly nor very many rimes, bur rhis wos jusr one of many crearive olibis seniors used ro cover rheir unexcused absences. According ro Frank Miller, rhe principal In charge of rhe seniors, rhe mosr common excuse wos. I overslept. If seniors overslept too many rimes, they switched ro. My cor wouldn't start. Although these were common excuses, when it come ro skipping, seniors hod ro resort ro other methods The hours of rhe school doy skipped mosr by seniors were first and seventh. The mosr popular days ro miss were Mondoy ond Friday How did seniors beg rheir mothers for on excuse when they skipped? One anonymous senior replied. I rold my mom I had ro srudy for another closs ond rhor I didn't miss anything important.'' Others soid they wrote notes for themselves ond then forged rheir parents' signatures. Morion Johnson, fomiKor with oil tonds of senior excuses, calmly occepts Abby Heiligmon’s creotlve alibi 30: Youi excuse: Don't leave home without it Daniel Gordner Jeffrey Gordner Shcreen Gorrison ■Jill Glassberg