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

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ONE SOLUTION to Americas energy problems may lie just a few miles out to sea from Atlantic City, where men are drilling for oil The federal government has approved leases for private companies to search for oil on the continental shelf Somewhere over the rainbow The United States has endured dif- ficult times in the past and there is no reason to despair that it will not only endure but survive its latest period of trial. Indeed, the crisis of Watergate demonstrated that our system works. There is reason to dream. One need only look at today's high schoolers. They are involved. They do the legwork for the charity fund-raising campaigns. They volunteer to do hospital work, to help out in the nursing homes, to assist with the brain-injured children. They are the envelope-stuff ers and the literature-distributors during the election campaigns. They pick up bundles of newspapers around the neighborhoods for recycling and they line up to donate blood to help a fellow student in need. Sure, some kids get busted for drugs, or for creating a public dis- turbance. or for auto theft. But they are not in the mainstream anymore than the adult criminals. A typical American saying cautions that you should keep your eye on the doughnut, and not on the hole. That is applicable in this instance. STUDENT LIFE—21

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HOPE FOR TOMORROW can be found right here. The dedication to excellence is shown in the faces of these people, at work in the lab or the studio, on the stage or the 20—STUDENT LIFE playing field.

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SUNSET OVER THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER at its northern end in Wisconsin. One of the world's longest, this river will snake its way 2.350 miles southeastward to empty into the Gulf of Mexico. Down past St. Louis. Memphis. New Orleans. A long winter's nap Every year we have to contend with that long stretch between Christmas and Easter vacations. It means a seemingly endless string of full weeks of class, unbroken by anything but Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays. Valen- tine's Day doesn't count. The stretch was made a bit more interesting than usual this year by the excitement over Rutgers basketball. Everyone seemed to have Scarlet Fever as the Knights went undefeated in 32 games before losing to Michigan in the semi-finals of the NCAA tourna- ment. We joined the skiers in praying for snow. We tried not to think about the fate of our college applications. We longed for Spring and wished someone would invite us to Ft. Lauderdale. 22 —STUDENT LIFE