May 15, 1970
A look back as the school year ends
It was the end of 12 years of sitting in a Roseville classroom five days a week. It was the end of homework, pop quizzes, overdue library books and report cards you were proud or afraid to show to parents.
It was the end of sitting next to your friends in the lunchroom, staring at the clock in study hall and wondering if the boy or girl in your third hour class really liked you. It was the last time you would sit in a classroom with teachers you enjoyed and would remember years later, and those whose classes you showed up for and endured.
For many about to graduate, it would soon be the end of living with their parents, as they prepared to leave for a dorm room at the University of Minnesota or another college, perhaps in another state.
It was hard to believe you were really leaving, and perhaps you weren't quite ready to go. It had been a good year, even if it began with teachers picketing and a student walkout. Ramsey was a good school -- even if you complained about your classes and your second hour teacher. Ramsey was safe. There were a few drug dealers and maybe a bully or two, but you hung with your crowd, including kids you might have known since elementary school.
There was no way to know what the next year, or two, or ten would be like.
It's graduation time for the class of 1970.
Editors called the final issue a “time capsule” --- as if it was meant to be opened some day years or decades later, and tell us something important about the way we were then. Unlike the yearbook which was intended as a keepsake, Blueprint’s record of Ramsey High school was published on newsprint, which would fade over time, like memories.
The time capsule has been opened. We can revisit Ramsey High School and the events that shaped who we were and would become. As the paper said in its final editorial, the 1969-70 school year “has to be considered interesting -- maybe even fascinating.”
In this issue
Blueprint year-in-review issue looks back on the September teacher protest
School construction expanded science, social studies and other classroom areas
| Blueprint Time Capsule (cover) | 1 |
| Looking back (editorial) | 2 |
| Paper honored | 2 |
| Blueprint really OK? | 2 |
| Salary rate disputed | 3 |
| Chain of events leads to walkout | 3 |
| Opposing forces agree | 3 |
| Harriet Jordan resigns school board | 3 |
| People, dollars decide additions | 4 |
| Planned additions | 4 |
| Faculty members unhappy with building plans cut | 4 |
| Radicals runing rampant? Mini-course showdown | 5 |
| Pence | 5 |
| Johnson | 5 |
| Soc. Class hears Shore | 5 |
| Teachers of the year: Molitor, PaDelford | 6 |
| Drac reVAMPs school spirit | 6 |
| Weihe refused Council berth | 7 |
| Ramsey, nation embrace Moratorium | 7 |
| Abilene, Ramsey exchanged, compare | 7 |
| Sports Capsule: Athletics in review | 8 |
| Alex Banquet nears | 8 |
That week in May
- Police open fire on a crowd of African American students at Jackson State College in Mississippi, killing two and injuring twelve (May 14).
- Justice Harry A. Blackmun is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court (May 14).
- South-Africa is barred from the Olympic Games in Tokyo over its refusal to condemn apartheid (May 15).
- The comedy spy-spoof series Get Smart airs its final episode on CBS (May 15).
Quoteable Quote
This past year has to be considered interesting -- maybe even fascinating. To the humorist it was a scream and to the pessimist it was naturally a disaster.
—From a Ramsey Blueprint editorial
