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

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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

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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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SeniMj solved diburm tM mudikfcitt l (j staging tuifr dtouia By the time February had rolled around, the Senior Class was busy preparing for the annual Variety Show. This is the big fund-raising activity for the graduating class and its financial success determines how much Dad is going to have to pay for the Senior Prom. ribbing the faculty, school rules, and other sacred cows. These days, they have plenty of leeway. With so much attention being paid to students' rights and freedom of ex- pression, no one wants to censor and invite in the American Civil Liberties Union. But the Variety Show has become such an institution here—and probably at every other high school in the nation—that the question of whether it will be a financial success is academic. Of course, it will. It always does. The more pressing question is usually how much the seniors can get away with when it comes to For this year's class, the big problem was a super-abundance of talent. Although tryouts were held at which panels of volunteers screened the acts, it became ap- parent that some really good per- formers would be cut unless the show were to run twelve hours. When the final cast was chosen, there was bound to be resentment. What could be done? 30—VARIETY SHOW