harbinger SHAWNEE MISSION EAST
What’s Inside
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ISSUE 15, MAY 3, 2004
Student deals with her mother’s illness Summer movies Nutrition and school
making prom come true Behind the scenes with the people who plan the year’s biggest dance
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atrick Ardinger started preparing for prom a whole year early. It started last spring, when he was elected junior class president and put in charge of planning this year’s prom. The process eventually took nearly all of his junior year. Ardinger was one of a group of juniors for whom preparation for Prom started in September, when they began weekly meetings to plan the theme and decorations of the dance. It was a job that wasn’t finished until two weeks ago, when
by Libby Nelson stuffed invitations that were passed out to every junior and senior. Some weeks they’d spend their entire junior class meeting talking about Prom; sometimes they’d hardly touch on the subject at all. But now, with not quite a week before the dance, they’ve spent countless weekly meetings and thousands of dollars working on an event that will last only five hours. They’ve spent eight months planning for one night.
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