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

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Learning by doing - this is the time-tested method, and through school organizations many students learn by serving both classmates and teachers. ROTC members perform many duties - daily by raising and lower- ing the outside flag, and during the year by ushering at football games and special assemblies. Elected representatives learn by planning and organizing school projects - experience for the future. COLONEL Philip Geishert presents a traditional medallion to Battle Group Sponsor Kathryn McConoughey at the military ball. EAGERLY AWAITING election results, Gordon Nelson, John Akerlund, and Jan Geiger relieve their tension by studying or conversing. Students Discover

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DOLPHIN QUEEN Donna Melquist and her attendants Rosl Ekstrom and J111 Holmqu1st remam after the show as fr1ends stop to congratulate them. Candlelight Procession Climaxes Dolphin Show Slapstick humor, precision diving, and water ballets combined to make the 22nd annual Dolphin Show, Roar- in' 20's, an interesting evening's enter- tainment. High point of the three perform- ances was the crowning of Queen Don- na Melquist by Dolphin Club President Jay Bailey. As the various acts progressed, spectators who sat near the edge of the pool were splashed continually, a necessary hazard in any waiter show. SPECTATORS have a preview of the forthcoming Dorado Show as Judy O1 son, Sandy Pellant, Carolyn Karceskl and Ann Johnson perform.

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A ON THEIR WAY to homeroom, Stan Martenson and Dave Gulbrandsen pause to purchase a book from Paul Elmquist at the Student Book Center. Ways To Combine Pleasure with Service New ideas are essential to progress. Such progress was evident this year in the establishment of the Student Book Center, which serves as a convenient source of good reading in the form of paperbacks. Debate members learn to develop their own ideas through an exchange of words and arguments. The debate season is longer than that of any other competitive team at East, and in the course of a year, the debaters travel hundreds of miles. ONE OF THE OFTEN UNNOTICED services of debate team members Phil Johnson, Paul Anderson, Marcia Dana, and Steve Sealin consists of managing the check room at basketball games.