Prom at Cannon Falls High

School has varied greatly from

year to year. Themes, locations,

and dress styles may have

changed, but one thing has

remained constant: the huge

amount of preparation that goes

into one evening. Today’s faculty

members take a stroll down

memory lane as they recall their

own CFHS prom experiences.

The year was 1987, the prom

theme was On the Edge of a

D ream, a nd CF HS student

and future teacher Tom Weber

danced the night away doing

the “croppie.” “We had a real

band... pretty good,” Weber

recalls. Prom tickets only cost

fi fteen dollars, and his tuxedo

sixty. Before Grand March began,

Weber “went with eight

people- safety in numbers I

always thought,” to the Hubble

House in Kasson Mantorville.

What he remembers most about

prom is “cleaning my car. I even

vacuumed it.”

In 1988 prom was done in

a completely different fashion.

The Night of Our Lives was heldon a boat in Lake Pepin following

Grand March in the high school

gym. That year, tickets were

sold by the couple at a cost of

seventy-fi ve dollars. The highlight

that night for then CFHS

Junior Holly Lindahl was, “The

new sunglasses I got at a Holiday

station that night!”

The popularity of the riverboat

experience continued into

1989’s prom, If Only for Tonight.

Prom that year was held on former

CFHS student and current

teacher Amy Dombeck’s 18th

birthday. Following the events

at the school, students boarded a

coach bus to St. Paul. There they

boarded the Jonathon Padleford.

“We had a river ride up and down

the Mississippi... good time, very

fun,” Dombeck recalls. The cost

of the “good time” was sixty

dollars per couple. Dombeck

remembers her prom as being

“such a nice night, sitting on the

boat on my birthday with the

man I would eventually marry.

[It’s] what you hope prom would

be like.”

In 1991, prom was moved to

the Northfi eld Ballroom, where

tickets cost thirty dollars percouple. Josh Davison, current

CFHS business manager, attended.

He fondly remembers, “The

guys would line up in a train

and slide with [their] slippery

shoes. I don’t remember [then

principal] Mr. Baisley being too

fond of that.”

In 1992 Grand March was

again followed by the dance at

the Northfield Ballroom, but

tickets cost twenty-fi ve dollars

per person. “Dinner was on

your own. We took a limo up to

the cities and had dinner. That

was a highlight,” Jake Davison,

current member of the District

Offi ce staff, remembers of his

fi rst CFHS prom. Davison also

attended the following year’s Under

the Sea. “The Little Mermaid

was really big then,” he explains.

“All the girls were in love with

the movie.”

Flash forward to 2005, New

York New York. Though some

aspects have changed, many

remain the same. “Things are

no different. Guys hang around

and watch girls dance,” states

Weber. No matter the theme,

location or cost, some things

never change.