East Berlin High School - Reflector Yearbook (East Berlin, PA)

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We Present . . . . In Three Volumes . . . . Page 2 • Personalities • Traditions • Athletics and Highlights

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REFLECTOR 1954 Presented by THE SENIOR HIGH East Berlin High School East Berlin, Pennsylvania

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 Caps and Gowns” You are waiting in line rather nervously outside the door of the audi- torium, joking and laughing a little with your suddenly very dear” class- mates. Abruptly Mr. Gruver, your guide for stepping forward at this critical moment, arrives at the door and opens it. The organ is coming up the scale to the opening notes of Pomp and Circumstance”. Then you are moving forward into the auditorium and onto the stage. This is Graduation night! You had decided not to cry over the thought of leaving that place of education”, and you try hard to maintain that decision. It’s only the night you dress in those ordinary gowns you wore for Chorus, except that you’ve added a tight cap” and an annoying tassel”. Then a few strains of music from the organ drift over to you, seem to catch at you, and suddenly your mouth goes dry and your throat tightens, the fixed smile turns up in a strange sort of way. You look again at the plain caps and gowns. They’ve changed. They’ve taken on a new glow of importance and, abruptly, deep in your heart you know that you must keep a fragment of that costume — if only the tassel with the school colors. Dimly you hear the music again. A few names are called, then yours. You feel yourself move forward, feel a parchment placed in your hand. You glance down at it, and, suddenly, there is a sweeping realization that there are four of you — a graduate, a diploma, and a cap and gown . . . Page 3