Foreword To keep up with the times. East has established many new activities, such as Radio Club, Cinemas-ters, and Personnel Bureau, the latter having been organ ized this year by the assistant principal. Dr. Crosby. The Dramatic Society, now a popular and active organization, has taken the place of the strictly male Bachelors’ Club of olden days. To be in style. Easterners have chosen the traditional cap and gown to replace best dresses and Sunday suits at graduation. TAKING a backward glance at the East Senior High School and Pawtucket of the past, the staff of the 1948 Red jacket has chosen as its theme Yesterday and Today. Since the turning point of the century Pawtucket has undergone many changes, transferring the city into a modern business and industrial center. Honking horns and traffic whistles are heard on the same Main Street which once echoed the clatter of horses' hoofs and carriage wheels. Electric and fluorescent lighting systems have replaced the old gas lamps, which required the daily rounds of the lamplighter. Reflecting on old East High and old Pawtucket, we have tried to give this edition of the Redjacket an air of bygone days.
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My dear Graduates of 1948: Ever since you entered East Senior High School in September, 1946, your scholastic record has been noticeably high. For the greater part of the time that you were in the school, it would be true, in general, to say that the number of students in your class who were receiving all A’s” was equal to the number getting all ''A’s” in the other two classes combined. However, it remains to be noted that this superiority has been very decidedly on the part of the girls rather than on the part of the boys. Of the sixty-eight members of your class who were highest in rank at the end of the junior year, fifty-five were girls and thirteen were boys. What the explanation of this condition is seems difficult to determine. Two facts, however, seem evident. One is that the girls do a great deal more studying than the boys and the second is that the same condition exists throughout the nation. The Class of 1948 has been a pleasant one with which to work. I have grown to know some of you very well and I shall long value your friendship. In future years I hope that you will remember East Senior High School with pleasure and affection. May the lessons you have learned here be of service to you throughout a long and happy life. I wish you Good Luck and Godspeed. Henry J. Winters
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