East High School - Quill Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Epidemic strikes... Scarlet Fever launches new schoo year Temperatures rose over the summer months. Whether students spent vacation in California or spent the day at Saylorville Beach, those hot days went by swiftly. But then the pre-season football games started appearing on the television set. Back- to-school sales started popping up and before you knew it, the State Fair opened. That could mean only one thing — school was about to start. With school beginning, you knew that that great sense of pride was starting to build up inside you once more. This enthusiasm could not be held inside. Scarlet Fever was a very contagious disease and was a serious threat to any other high school that it came in contact with. There were no words to describe this excitement, but there were ways to show it. The most obvious way to show your enthusiasm was to buy a State Champions T-shirt, which was sold by the Student Government. You could also decorate your car for a pre-football game caravan. Parents and alumni got into the act by joing the PTSA and Booster Club and selling refreshments at games, as well as conducting other fund-raising activities. Of course, the Cheerlead- ers were always spreading as much of their Scarlet Fever as they could. Scarlet Fever had no known vac- cine. Once you had caught it, it would never let you go. The Medicine Man is perplexed as he tries to find a cure for the Scarlet Fever that hit the school. He ' s got a tough job, as you can see by the faces of the stricken students. PTSA (Parent-Teacher-Student Association) boosters show their support by running the coat check. Scarlets spread the epidemic throughout the East Side during Homecoming Week by deco- rating cars for the caravan. 6 OPENING

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The charred helmet of a U.S. serviceman lies in an Iranian desert at the spot where an attempt to rescue 52 American hostages came to an end. A burned out helicopter used in the mission is in the background. Many Americans were surprised at the results of the elec- tion for this country ' s fortieth President. Although some pre- dicted that the election would be too close to call ' former California governor Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Jimmy Carter. The election was later called a landslide. The volcano, Mount St. Helens, blew its top, producing a blast as powerful as the largest atomic bomb ever test ed. The blast resulted in 34 deaths. Although 1981 proved to be a year of despair for many, there were those who hoped that devastations such as these could only bring our nation closer together rather than draw- ing it farther apart. Photographs and photo captions courtesy of Wide World Photos, New York City, New York. An ocean-going tug heads into a Key West, Florida, pier carrying 700 to 900 persons. This was one of the largest groups of Cuban refugees to reach the United States. TOP: President-elect Ronald Reagan responds to cheering supporters. BOT- TOM: President Jimmy Carter concedes defeat with his wife, Rosalyn, at his side. OPENING 5

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