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

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Monotonous When Sherman said what he did about war, he never thought of school. Despite moments of excitement and fun, despite occasional flashes of brilliance from the faculty, the routine of seven periods of class a day, day after day, week after week, brought numbing monotony. It was compounded if those seven classes were of the lecture variety. One longed for the weekend, but that was usually spent asking your buddy, “What do you want to do tonight? and getting the inevitable reply, I don't know. What do you want to do?

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Athletic It was not long ago that Athletics were the in thing at East Brunswick High School and the varsity jacket, the status symbol. But the wake of student concern and involvement beyond the playing fields diminished this status, somewhat. Yet, even last year, though challenged by Campus Courier, the athlete was still the dominant figure on campus - however crowded — and the sports event still the major drawing card of any student activity. No wonder. No other single student activity drew as much student participation. One of every four boys enrolled took part in interscholastic athletics, and many were three lettermen. With a stable coaching staff, East Brunswick teams had compiled an impressive won-loss record over the decade they had been playing, the envy of many neighboring schools. A source of community pride, the sports program was backed solidly by an off-campus Booster Club that provided many of the extras not available through the Board of Education, such as the electric scoreboard on the football field. So, though contending with new forces on campus, it was not likely that athletics would be dethroned soon as king of the hill. Nothing succeeds like success. 27