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

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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.

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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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Something completely different Like most of our fellow countrymen down through the years, we tend to distrust the old and favor the new. We will tear down a fine old building to make room for a parking lot or a glass-and-chrome box. We will modify a traditional rite like commencement until we end up with a ceremony quite different from the first such. We do the same even with words. A valedictorian used to be the person who ranked tops in his class. Last year we graduated no less than seventeen from the same class! This year was no different as far as change went. Student Council became the Student Union and a committee replaced the usual cadre of officers. We went to an eight- period schedule. The attendace procedure was computerized and the machine was programmed to block out a passing grade for any subject you cut more than four times in a quarter. Football had a losing season for the first time in memory. Monty Python got more laughs than Mel Brooks and more kids watched Mary Hartman. Mary Hartman than All in the Family. Democrats seemed inclined to nominate Jimmy Carter for the fall's Presidential campaign, and Republicans were taking a se- cond look at Ronald Reagan. STUDENT LIFE—13