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

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Meantime, ain't we got fun? Maybe it was because we had grown up in Era of Affluence that work didn't seem so important to many of us. It wasn't as if any in- come we earned was needed at home to keep a roof over our heads or food on the table. Such jobs as we had were to earn money for a car, or dates, or perhaps to help reduce the expenses that might be needed for college. Mostly we worked to have fun. That attitude carried over to school. If you didn't like the 65-cent lunch in the cafeteria, you went off cam- pus. It cost more and was against school regulations, but we laughed. Sure studies were important, but having a good time took priority. In warm weather, many of us took four-day weekends and went to class only in midweek. When we were in class, we mastered the art of changing the subject if the lesson was too boring, or livened things up with a few pratical jokes. We made high school fun and told ourselves we'd settle down when we got to college or started work- ing. But we were never convinced we would—or that we could. U S. Astronaut Donald K. Slayton and Soviet cosmonaut Aleksey A Leonov float upside down to each other during linkup of an Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft in orbit above earth A bit of fun to lighten the demanding work. STUDENT LIFE—9

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BITCH LEAVE IT TO SENIORS to find fun in any situation Howie Shemitz and Joe Devaney turned a tour of the Air Force Museum into a lark Even formal dances were less stuffy if you had the right attitude. And it wasn’t the end of the world if you were late to class. EVEN THE FACULTY realized that all work and no play made for a dull student and they organized—and won—a student-faculty cross country meet. It wasn't that we couldn't be serious It was more fun to be laughing and having a good time.

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A i PORTLAND HEAD LIGHT on the coast of Maine stirs up memories of Yankee Clippers and whaling ships. They are things of the past, but so is America's blue-ribbon liner SS United States 10—STUDENT LIFE Show me the way to go home Since its birth. America has been a nation on the go, both literally and figuratively. The only difference now is a matter of style. Most of our dads commute to work in other parts of the county or in the city. The car has made that possible and East Brunswick is what you might call a bedroom community.'' Spread out as it is. most of rely on school buses to get us to school and on Mom to get us to the movies. Boy Scouts, church meetings, dance lessons, and what have you. Until we can drive, that is. Accustomed to not staying put, we go Florida for vacations, to New England for ski weekends, and in- variably choose anywhere but New Jersey for college. It's as if this were a nice place to visit but we wouldn't want to live here.