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

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PART OF THE MEGALOPOLIS that stretches from Boston to Washington. East Brunswick straddles a six-lane highway that chokes on commuters twice daily, and is only five miles from the mainline of Conrail. once the Penn Central and. before that, the Pennsylvania Railroad. THE CONCORDE SST may soon be flying overhead as it makes its final approach into Newark International Airport Just think: you could leave Newark and be over Iceland in about the time it takes to get home on the school bus

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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.

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12—STUDENT LIFE SENIORS WON the Homecoming float contest which isn't very unusual But their float was generally credited with being the best one ever! Nature followed suit and hit us with the best flu virus ever—the Victoria A kind. The after-effects lasted for months THIS YEAR WAS DIFFERENT Girls joined the bowling team. Student Council dissolv- ed into a Student Union and tried out new ideas—like giving a friend a flower. We chose a Homecoming King for the first time, and AV did their own show on cable TV's channel 8.