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

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Costumed seniors greeted arrivals at Chinese Auction. You found the item you wanted and bid on it by dropping a numbered ticket in a can. Advisers Triozzi and Richvalsky wondered if the idea would work. Just look at the money and the smiles—they say it did. You pays your money and you takes a chance It was something like Bingo. An item was sold by drawing a ticket from its can. If you had the other half of the numbered stub, you won the merchandise. 28—CHINESE AUCTION

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Charity begins at home. Douglas Rhodes serves, and the junior volleyball marathon is on its way The event was staged to raise funds for class activities. Weary juniors take a break and then resume play. Kim Dickinson had an easier time of it selling candy She probably earned as much for the class VOLLEYBALL MARATHON—27

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Twd ft), wuuhj, mm Lattmd imwuj at a Ckuttft auction Seniors were also into the fund- raising business. And, because their needs were more immediate than those of the Juniors, they tried more money-making schemes. Beside each article up for auction was a small can into which a bidder would drop a numbered ticket. It was like a 50-50. He bid with one stub and kept a matching one. No less inventive than the Juniors but certainly less physical, the Seniors came up with a Chinese Auction. This took more effort to stage than the volleyball marathon because, to get the auction off the ground, the seniors first had to scramble around town to get peo- ple to donate merchandise that could then be auctioned. They then converted the cafeteria into an indoor Englishtown. While the customers were looking for bargains and dropping their ticket-bids into the cans, the cafeteria looked like Two Guys when they announce a ten-minute special in ladies' wear. Then the auctioneer pulled from the cans the winning tickets. By this time, people had forgotten they had paid for those uncalled tickets. There were squeals of delight. Like at Bingo. The seniors made a pile. CHINESE AUCTION—29