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We the unwilling, led by the unqualified, have been doing the unbelievable for so long, with so little, we now attempt the impossible with nothing. - Mini-School Credo

Month: December 1976

Student Council

December 1, 1976 by Mini Archives

By Michele DeVere In the beginning of the school year, we elected a student council to work on getting things going for Mini-School, raising money and making improvements. At first, the council came up with some suggestions. After a while, the council faded out, then they got out a suggestion box for people to put … [Read more…]

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Thank You Donna!

December 1, 1976 by Mini Archives

By Kay Nelson I’d like to take this space to thank our student teacher Donna Laubenthal, for sharing her talent and time with us this quarter. I was in her human rights class. She taught us many things about the laws, including the rights of minors as well as adults. She has spent her time … [Read more…]

Posted in: Articles Tagged: Kay Nelson

The Kekekabic Trail Hiking Trip

December 1, 1976 by Mini Archives

By Julie Maynard Our trip to the north woods was great. It was probably the ultimate in anything I have ever done in my whole life! The people who went were Eric Child, Chris Child, Tom Zipf, Rebo (Gary Johnson), Scott McPherson, Kevin Schierman, Rick Geyen, Kelly Martin, Doug, Randy, Spot, and I. We left … [Read more…]

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Untitled

December 1, 1976 by Mini Archives

By Mike Rishavy In the beginning, there was only one kind of education. Experience. You learned everything from your parents and their parents taught them and on down the line. Then progress hit. Like a scream in the night there was a demand for higher education. So schools sprung up and you were taught more … [Read more…]

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Meandering Through Mini-School

December 1, 1976 by Mini Archives

By Randy Nelson This is the first of what will hopefully be an integral part of Com-Mini-Cations, namely, a column dealing with those happenings and students whose merits are oftentimes unrecognized. Although the information presented may be in the form of the “gossip column,” the intent is informational. Doug Berg is thinking about reintroducing the … [Read more…]

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Latest Updates:
10/28/24 - Found some negatives for a sledding trip to the Orono Golf Course in 1980 so added a new slideshow for that.
9/25/2024 - Uploaded an additional 53 PDF files of Com-Mini-Cations, started to convert the articles into individual posts.
5/28/2024 - Created slideshows for miscellaneous trips and classroom photos plus a slideshow for unidentified trips, lots of updates to existing slideshows, slide scanning complete
5/27/2024 - Slideshows for Big Fork Canoe 1996, Women's Bike Trip 1994, North Shore Women's Trip 1994, Southwest Utah Trip 1992, Winter Camping 1998 & 1999, St Louis 1998, Insights 1993
5/23/2024 - Slideshows for Classroom 1992, new photos to Classroom 1996, and the Mini 25th Reunion.

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