Rockford East High School - Argus Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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if xg ' 15 r in ,f - 4 Et UPPER LEFT: Have a heart, Dick Cogswell! Thanks for asserting the strength of the male portion of the senior class, but please remem- ber that wrestler Bertrand Shurtleff has one more assembly to go. Do you think he can take it? LEFT: Swimming pool? Right down the hall and to the right-youlre welcome. junior-senior parents' night guides Viola Michaelson, John Hopp and jane Parlee give parents directions. BELOW LEFT: Oh, Tannenbaum, Oh, Tannenbaum-One of East High's loveliest traditions is the huge Christmas tree with which each senior class decorates the main entrance to the school. CENTER: Marilyn North and Edward Eagle enact a tensely emo- tional scene from i'The Barretts of Wimpole Streetf' senior play of '48. RIGHT: Let's call it a daguerreotype of East's Barrett family: Chuck Peterson, Joyce Lundeen, Joanne Ekedahl, Marilyn North, Don Lindquist, Marty LaRose, Loren Anderson, Edward Eagle, Leon- ard Yankus, and Tom Stone. ali a iiirsiraaai

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UPPER LEFT: It's the last grand march of East High for these seniors at An Old-fashioned Ball, l948 senior prom, at which rustic benches and lamp posts carried out the gay nineties motif. UPPER RIGHT: Dive for the oyster, dig for the clam, pack 'em all up in a sardine can, and everybody swing! Seniors run them- selves ragged at their mixer as they square dance to the rollicking calls of Lou Harrington. RIGHT: Gray-garbed seniors await their trip to the stage of the Coronado theater to receive their diplomas. LOWER LEFT: How can you miss, fellows? A shortage of ping- pong tables at Rec parties doesn't fuss Don Erickson, Ralph Lind- hlom, Curt Ostrom, Bergen Nelson, and XX7ayne Cowlishaw, who have invented quintuples. LONWER RIGHT: Senior Officers john Hopp, Gloria Carlson, Bill Spickerman, and Bill Rudelius relax a moment by the flagpole from their duties as treasurer, secretary. president, and vice-president, class of '49.