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

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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.

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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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IN DRIZZLING RAIN AND SNOW, Al Torgerson, Jerry Fisher, and Sam Stonefield prepare to lead a caravan of cars to the East-Auburn game. Stunts, Cheering Crowds, lllustrate Team Spirit nl' , ' , , I - fr-,ffl ,f frlrsmw,-f5.,f4,, .f Qui? fl ig ,fr I l 1 if l ' ' s ml 1. f , fit .Qu v X 31 fe. Q, 5 5 f 2 ii i R i W 43' , lzff I i ,' was , 1, -fi rf- J' ' f- ,'wff:p4J, f,.',y,T -'uiupff ., V., lr ,I ,,,a,'f 4-.f 7, ,I ' ,P f ,,W'i',' 43a,f',4,g, Students thrilled to wins, were dis- appointed at losses, but enthusiasm and good sportsmanship retained their importance. Team spirit, an important part of any school, takes many dif- ferent forms - crazy stunts and skits, boldly-lettered banners, crowds cheer- ing themselves hoarse - and, even after the regular season had finished, the AFS R-Club-Faculty basketball game drew a large crowd. EXCITEMENT of the Student-Faculty game proves too much for Mr. William Dolan, who receives first aid from members of the half-time skit, Bill Larsen and Sue Muehlemeyer.