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

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NOSTALGIC ALUMNI return to campus every Christmas to sing again with the Chorus at their Tree Lighting concert, or to play once more with the Indigos at the Christmas dance. Some also get back for Homecoming and renew old friendships over hotdogs and hot chocolate. SOME THINGS DON’T CHANGE. For all you hear about Women's Lib. girls still enroll in Home Economics. Few boys do. We still forget everything else at World Series time Drama Club still scores with old favorites like Our Town” and we still have the orchard. STUDENT LIFE—15

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You gotta be a football hero We don't need the campus flicks of the 'thirties to remind us that foot- ball players enjoy a status all their own in our society. Off the field, they seem to get all the pretty girls. They get the scholarships to prestigious colleges. And they get out of class early to suit up for prac- tice. Even at a school like East Brunswick which fields teams in just about every sport for both boys and girls, the football hero is something apart from the other athletes. Maybe it's because foot- ball is elevated to a kind of religious status—probably because the game began less than five miles away when Rutgers beat Princeton one November day in 1 869. Of course, all athletes stand higher in the pecking order than non- athletes around here. They are the doers and it is their achievements that thrill us and add excitement to an otherwise routine school day. If they compile a string of victories, we are awed. If they lose a bunch, we make excuses for them, and blame the refs. And we wait 'til next year. How typically American. STUDENT LIFE—1 7