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

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UPPER LEFT: Signs in the gym are still accumu- lating as the membership in the Red and Black Club increases. LOWER LEFT: Senior Mark Overton exhibits his skill on the computer, a clue to the future. CENTER: Showing the unending spirit that kept East alive is football player Mike Baker, senior. UPPER RIGHT: The business structure on Grand shows the pro- gression of our capital city. OPENING 3

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©I? COB OGQB© Red Black CLUB I don ' t know why they changed the starting time of school this year. Now I have to get up at 7:25 instead of 7:30. I can ' t wait for my computer class. These freshmen seem so small, said one senior, not 2 OPENING remembering that he, too, was once a freshmen. Comments like these echoed through the halls of East High on the first day of school, comments which actually were acknowledgements of the growing advancement of our school and society. Progress in the building and the community was one of the many signs of the times. The collection of signs in the gym increased; spirit pro- gressed. Victory over Dowling in football, a long-awaited dream come true, caused an ecstasy throughout the school. Our triumph, the first in 20 years, ended Dowling ' s 28-0 Metro winning streak. As we found our ways around the wheelbarrels full of cement and dodged the men with bricks, we realized that time does take its toll, even on eight original restrooms in the main building. The remodeling of these 71-year-old restrooms was not the only construction on the East Side. A short way down from the capitol, on Grand, a new business complex slowly began to take form — a building whose purpose was to improve the East Side business district. And yet another construction to benefit East was the tearing up of Walker Street to make way for two new practice fields, one for the band and one for the sophomore football team. In this time of inflation, our education seemed not to suffer to a large degree. Even though budgets were cut, the teachers did the best they could with the resources they had. To us, these people were more than educators; they were our friends; and it is to them that we dedicate the 1983 Quill. Sure, there will always be those things that will never change about EHS, like selling elevator tickets to freshmen, seniors cutting in the lunch line, learning to express your- self in health class, tripping up the stairs, getting rowdy at pep assemblies and forgetting homework accidentally on purpose; but as we looked at all of the changes going on around us, we realized that they were all signs of the times.

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ABOVE: Members of the Pep E Club cheer during the Homecoming Assembly. The club was one of the largest and most active ever. ABOVE RIGHT: Defiance was the name of the band that performed at the 12 B Dance. RIGHT: Homecoming Dance is the talk of East i the fall. Several students enjoy the great music OPPOSITE PAGE: Senior Tom Little prepares pizza. Tom worked at Scornovacca ' s. 4 STUDENT LIFE