East Brunswick High School - Emerald Yearbook (East Brunswick, NJ)

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 Conference prayed for a second high school here And please, dear God, the chaplain said, Make East Brunswick build another high school. Amen. Thus ended last June's awards banquet of the Middlesex County Athletic Conference. East Brunswick sports buffs, meanwhile, prayed just as fervently that East Brunswick would not build another high school. (Taxpayers joined them.) At issue was the high school's athletic supremacy in all sports. In the two years since the conference was formed, the Bears had garnered championships in football, soccer, cross country, basketball, winter track, tennis, golf and spring track. For five years running, they have been State Champs in gymnastics. While the jock may not be the Big Man on Campus he once was, Athletics is still king on this hill. And for whatever excellence she is known in other areas, East Brunswick High's reputation rests on her sports.

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For all the changes, some traditions held Growth brought change and, for most, a feeling that they were just another student number. But tradition held in many cases, almost as though the school were returning to the past as a way of finding its identity today. When it was announced, for example, that this year's Emerald would be available for autographs before graduation in June, you topped 1968's record sales and set a new mark of 1350 subscriptions. We still have proms and class rings, Green and White week and Senior Skipout, senioritis by March, rousing school spirit before the South River game, carolling in the halls in December, Homecoming queens, bonfires, candy sales and magazine campaigns. Things don't disappear. But they do get buried under the change that's piled on top. 13