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

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Liberal Not all students saw college as the means to that successful end, but felt rather that their future lay in a trade or service. For them, the high school had a vocational-technical program that, a few years back, had been a model for other high schools in the state. Over one hundred businesses in the area cooperated with the high school in providing on-the-job training for both boys and girls going into a wide variety of businesses, trades or industries. In addition, there was a sequence of shop courses that even attracted one girl, and a play school run by Home Economics that qualified girls for nursery and day school Wl employment after graduation.

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The East Brunswick student came from a middle class home, be it upper or lower. And he w'as, in many ways, the product of his modern education. He realized that his schooling was but a means to what he hoped would be a very successful end. All this translated into his taking an academic program, then going off to college somewhere. For college was the key to a higher-paying job. Thus the high school was college-prep oriented for the most part, with a strong emphasis on math and the sciences. An expanded program in humanities and in lively arts reflected some concern that he had been getting a lopsided preparation and needed more balance. There was even some movement to broaden course offerings in English to compensate.

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