A Look at 7th through 12th" grades -- memorable moments 

                                                                excerpted from June 2, 1967 Campus Breeze and '67 Bisbila

7TH GRADE. . . UES’ers moved across the street bringing memories of Dr.
Duckworth and Liz Levitt’s football playing. . .First taste of Lady Alice for most of us. . .Mr Kemp’s English class. . . Bjornson, Chaffee, Smith, Stein, and Wilson carrying purses and wearing garters …Lipstick fights and water pistols ...Cheerleading first hit us. . .Miss Eisenberg’s Corvette and sandlot battles.. .Tom Smerling standing in the science room corner throwing tacks at the student teacher.. . Bonnie Peet’s parties. . .Gumwrapper chains. . .Baseball and Prisoner’s Base. . .Disappearing ink. . . Sara as Charity Week Princess.

8th GRADE. . .Peggie Power came. . .Mr. Hinman’s camel on the equator. . .Mr. Schulz and the telephone book. ..”Moon River” and barrel dancing. . .Norman, oooh-oh-oooh. . .Mrs. Morasco and Miss Plack’s $.40 worth. . .Mousketeering during archery. . .Loren as Miss America. . .The Marshall rumble. . .We were conference champs. . .foilballs and gum chains . . .Mrs Morasco and the ripped bathing suits. . .Charity Week won. . .    Mr. Martin’s Mechanical Method. . .Ann as Charity Week Princess.

9th GRADE. . .Were we Junior or Senior High? . . . Open houses. . .Maureen and the biology room snakes. . .Ralph, the owl. . .Unger in Greece. . .Some of the boys earned their first letters …Sue Grundman. . .burning incense in Biology. . .Bruce Smith leads an active class. . .”Assume thePosition” in gym ...We started a new trend with our Holiday Hop. . . Melissa Miley and her recording contract. . .The music assembly we thought was a pep fest. . .Nov. 20, 1963. . ."Zippy" Zuelke. . .Chaffee and his squirt gun syringe. . .Chubby Little Piglet…No sitting in the halls. . .Mr. Ray and the blackboard in Russian. . .Home-Ec and 7th hour athletics. . .Spring quarter biology and Mr. Coulter’s shark joke—among others…Co-ed ping-pong and shuffleboard. . .Ballroom dancing. . .”Seven Keys to Baldpate”. . .again winning Charity Week. . .Marie reigned at Charity Week.

10th GRADE. . .The boys grew over the summer to match the Amazon women.. .Bob Anderson arrives. . .Mr. Robb. . .Frizzy. . .Mattaway. . .Penquins. . .Switch blades from Mexico. . .Maureen and Buck on the knoll. . .Mr. "Mudslinger" and Linda. . .Prodigal Bill Field returns—for a while. . .Lenny White’s New Year’s Eve Party. . .Bowling and the tunnels during the cold winter mornings. . .The Kromerzone. . .Last of dancing in the gym classes (cha-cha-cha) . . .Mr. Kost sleeping in class; whe-e-el. . .The Sweeneys arrive . . . B-squad cheerleading. . .Loren was the first with his driver’s license--six days after his permit--and became the class chauffer. . .Mr. Whitehead and Womelsdorf. . .We finally started dancing at our parties. . .Speech I with serious seniors. . .Mr. Rockler’s ice-cream wagon. . .We won Charity week.. . Cindy as Charity Week Princess.

11th GRADE. . .The "V" . . .The Terrible Three: Grinde, Krasnow and Markulin. . . Receptionist pages ...Jim, Nick and John arrive. . . Bob left. . .Pierced ears. . .Loren and his boy scout uniform. . . Mr.Kieren and the computer. . .Marie in France. . .”Walk on Waconia”—the slogan nobody understood, Coach Dan. . .Activity periods. . .Firth and Lindbloom arrive. . .Card games at noon and sitting by the river. . .Mr. Goldbarg’s photography class. . .Kathe leaves for Brazil . . . The FIRST Lutsen trip . . . one year of wrestling cheerleaders. . .Branacle. . .Invasion by Marshall . . . Snow Day . . . Tear gas at Chaska. . .Beating Eden Prairie by one point. . . Faithful parents. . .”In theStill of the Night”- -because the boys liked it. . .River parties and U High row atLake Carnelian. . .The first year we lost charity week. . .Levitt and Cohen’s accident; “He was hanging judge!”. . . Caroline as Charity Week Princess.

12th GRADE. . .Liz, Mark and Margit leave for bigger and better things. . . Edrina and Eduardo arrive. . .Dave, Rog, Ann and Louie run Senate. . .Mr. De Young, Mr. Wold, Mr. Mertz . . .and Floyd Patterson . . . “If you’ve seen it you know it” . . . Joe as Boys’ State Governor . . . Holly’s party . . . The “Y” and juniors . . . T.S. as president . . . Four National Merit finalists . . . First floor lockers . . . “Would you believe? . . . Jeff’s cast . . .”What is this place, a hospital?” . . . Jon gives in to the basketball team . . . “Spoon River Anthology” . . . Boards and applying to schools . . . Mock elections –Mr. Rockler votes Republican . . . The day the physics class blew up and infiltration from Eden Prairie. . .The Gopher . . .New locker and clothing codes . . . The last of the bouncy blue chairs. .. George Koehler, Mr. Tipple, Mr Glob, Mrs. Kassler. . . Sex seminars . . . Wilson’s and Clausen’s marathon “Ghost” games. . .Skip Day---our adolescent indiscretion . . .Class meetings to plan skip day, the Senior Assembly and to bull. . .Holly's party. . ."dumb math". . ."my Cin". . .The SECOND Lutsen trip .. . River parties . . . Pink uniforms and Mrs. Mann. . .we stopped dancing at our parties.. . Evenings with Nick. . .Parties at Lumry’s . . .Acting exercises inSpeech I. . .Mr. Duff and Dummath . . . Those Kazoos. . .Senior slump! . . . Calendars to count down days, hours, minutes and seconds. . .Fibbonacci . . . Teaching classes during Student Government Day . . . “Wine and Roses” . . .Final assemblies and FINALLY commencement.