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

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IStefanie Oberts and Malt Anderson participate in the MADD vigil. They hold candles in memory of those killed in drunk driving accidents. Vigil creates awareness Over one hundred paid members and still growing, St. Louis Park High School's chapter of Students Against Driving Drunk (SADD) was one of the largest in the state. SADD was also the largest club in school with the biggest membership. The SADD members worked to prevent others from driving while intoxicated. They spent a lot of time on social events and fund-raisers. The second week in December was declared SADD week. It began with the Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) vigil which took place at the State Capitol in the Rotunda. About twenty-five Park students attended. Stefanie Oberts, senior, said, The MADD vigil was an extremely powerful and scary experience. It was scary because, as the names were being read off, I realized that most of them were in our age group. Wednesday of SADD week was SADD Day. Guest speaker Sylvia Ask talked to students and staff about DWI arrests. On Thursday and Friday there was a membership drive, and on Friday night SADD sponsored a school dance. Another major accomplishment for SADD was the cooperative effort with Golden Valley Health Center's SoberCab program. Any St. Louis Park student could call SoberCab for a free ride if he or she was under the influence of alcohol and needed a safe way home. Belonging to SADD made many students really think about DWI arrests and accidents. It also made them realize just how many people (especially students in their age group) are killed in drunk driving accidents. Kelli Olson, senior, said, I found that belonging to SADD made me think about drunk driving much more. I feel that people might think twice before drinking and driving if they knew all the facts and statistics. SADD: Front Row: J. Willis, N. Trump, I M. Schepers, M. Larson, K. Combs. Row I 2: D. Akins, M. Stuhr, M. Davidman, J. I Christiansen, T. St. Martin, C. Fisher,). I Davis, S. Oberts, M. Glaus, R. Hyllested, | Adviser. Row 3: K. Olson, L. Sletten, S. Bearmon, J. Peacock, J. Weinberg, K. Smith, S. Hughes, S. Larson, H. Austad. Row 4: L. Bestler, L. Colford, R. Burnstein,). Stevens, S. Topin, M. Anderson. Jennifer Willis participates in the candle-lighting ceremony taking place during SADD week at th State Capitol. 22 SADD

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3 n added attraction to the Sadie Hawkins Dante is pic tures. Wanting their pictures. After they are captured on film they will return to the I •,, preserve the memory of this evening forever, Carla Swartz and her school cafeteria to spend the 'est of the night dancing, talking and | :i ate, Eric Kraska, take time from the other Sadie activities to pose for enjoying the music. titZl r v I Stacy Rausch and Tony Roe listen intently while George Marryin' Sam Olsen tells them what to do next in the marriage ceremony. 1 )eni Longstaff and her date, Justin Forbes, spend their Saturday night slow-dancing to the WLOL Sound and Light Show. Longstaff is Rausch and Roe each have to make a rhyme with their names and promise to be good to one another before their union is official. held by the love songs, including Glory of Love and I Miss You. Forbes ponders the many different activities offered at the dance. Sadie Hawkins Dance 21

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▼ SENIOR BOARD: Front Row: K. Sch.uk. G.ilc. M J. Larson, P Grochow, N. ID. Schoen, L. Woods. B. Bronstien, S. Trump, A. Gustafson. Row 3: H. Stonhousc. L. Bestler. J. ludke, Row 2: Thomas, R. Tillotson. S. Oberts, A. M. L. Hedlund, S. Christensen, D. Shaw, M. Larson, I. Gustafson, D. Linne, adv. Year of many decisions 2 Senior Board advisor, David linnt tries on one of I the senior sweatshirts. The sweatshirts sold for | twelve dollars a piece. k Sfnior Board members, lay Ludke, Anne Gustafson, I Kathy Schack, Dot Schoen and Lisa Hedlund laugh while discussing plans tor graduation. Decisions! Decisions! Decisions! A group of seniors met a few times a month to make many decisions affecting their class. Many, but not all of these decisions had to do with one particular night — graduation! Called the Senior Board, the senior students volunteered their time to help make decisions and plans for the graduation ceremony. They also had some other ideas to make their senior year go out with a bang. The Senior Board faced many decisions about commencement. One problem that surfaced early was a Jewish holiday called Shavuot that was on the same day graduation was planned for. I don't feel it would be fair that a student might not be able to graduate with the class because of a religious conflict,” said Lisa Hedlund. The Senior Board, with the help of the school board, decided to delay the ceremony until after sundown, in order to have everyone graduate together. The Board also had to organize everything from the invitations to the speakers. Dot Schoen stated, The Senior Board was a lot more difficult than I had expected. Along with the planning of graduation, the Senior Board also had some ideas for the course of their senior year. They decided to sell senior sweatshirts. We thought it would be fun for our class to all have the same sweatshirts. We also thought it would help unify the class, said Lisa Olson. No other Senior Board had ever sold sweatshirts before but the risk paid off. The money went for senior class related activities, including memorials, sympathy cards or flowers for special occasions. In a change from past years, the Senior Board also decided to have the class valedictorian and salutatorian, Peter Berman and Nikki Trump, speak at graduation. We really wanted someone from our class to speak. We felt the students would enjoy listening to their peers, said Debbie Shaw. The Senior Board made many changes that helped make the senior year memorable. From graduation to sweatshirts, the seniors will look back and have many good memories thanks to the Senior Board. Senior Board 23