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

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In some ways, not as much We could go on but get the idea? If growth brought gains, it also took losses. «The weight of numbers made some things that previous classes had enjoyed either impossible or impractical. The last senior class trip was taken in 1%8. This year's junior class cancelled its prom. The janitorial staff had not been increased to keep up with the growing student population, with a resulting problem of butts, litter and trash. Nor had the number of parking spaces been increased to take care of the increased use of automobiles. The result: students parking on parts of the campus often faced a sea of mud and, not infrequently, bills for towing. School spirit suffered somewhat as some became apathetic in the increasingly impersonal atmosphere of a big school. Once-solemn occasions like the Senior Awards Program moved outdoors and took on an informality more like that of a country outing. NHS inductions were now conducted before an audience of invited guests.

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12 A new principal, a new direction The tenth anniversary year took on special significance with the arrival of Dr. Kenneth S. Burnett as new high school principal. Former principal of Memorial School, he replaced Mr. Anthony J. Navickas who had served as top administrator since 1961. At the outset, he set the tone for the year by getting people to think about the ways we had been doing things and to ask whether they were the best ways of doing them. He also made the administration more accessible to the school community and, if they did not come to him, he went to them for their comments and suggestions. Out of it all have come such innovations as Project OPEN, the mini-courses, a new report card procedure, new procedures for dances, a new attendance system, a general relaxing of restrictive rules, and discussion — still at faculty level - of flexible scheduling. Still to be acted upon are long-term projects such as the establishment of traditions or — as he expresses it - common ways of doing things which people hold as good. EBHS, foi all its ten years, has not really put down such roots. Dr. Burnett seems intent on having us begin.