East Mecklenberg High School - East Wind Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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, r ,- 1' '1 rk ..- U - ,- 'Q 22 ' ' , 5 i fr E. . 1 a I , U ,- Many moods make a seniors year Somehow a seniors year is more sharp, more well focused more painful more wonderful than any other year Happiness is a senior the happiness of people of places, and of knowledge I-le has sampled all that high school has to offer and he knows what makes him happy. Confidence is a senior too. Con- fident from three years of experience the senior is the leader at East. Anticipation is a senior. All the hopes and dreams of the future are suddenly approaching their time of realization. The business or college career is on the threshold. Suddenly all the privileges, all the power and pain of adulthood, are offered to the senior for the nominal fee of responsibility. Melancholy is a senior, too. The last days of the child can be seen in the senior. The child, symbol of all the freedom and irresponsibility of childhood must quietly and sadly die before the senior can enter adulthood. Sadly the senior sees his childhood die-sadly, for all the pressures and anxieties of adulthood are becoming much too apparent. For the senior, childhood is irretrievably lost. Most of all, a senior is reflection. A senior's year is a time for thinking-thinking of what is college for me, what is a career for meg and, for the few, what is life for me? if

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In a flurry of red and white, this year's Sweetheart Ball was held in the ballroom of the Queen Charlotte Hotel. On February 16, 1963, the three chapters of the East Meck- lenburg Beta Club sponsored the annual dance to help pay for some of their contributions to the school. A capacity crowd surged into the dance making this year's dance the most financially successful yet. The music for the dance was provided by lack Hutchinson and his band. The sus- pense began to mount as it was announced that 'all Sweet- heart Queen nominees and their escorts were to report to the stairs outside the ballroom. The long list of nominees and their escorts was announced until the two lines prac- tically stretched from one end of the ballroom to the other. It was then announced that Barbara 1-luitt was second runner-up and that Sherry Austin was first runner-up. The long awaited news came when it was announced that Janie Hocutt had been elected the Sweetheart Queen for 1963. Ianie was crowned by last year's queen, Mrs. Robbie Mann Clean lV1cKissickD. A special dance was held after the crown- ing for the queen and her court. When the dance came to a close, the crowd and the decorations began to magically disappear until the room was void of people and of all decorations. ' u, if If vlTs.'!l ns 4 'UI' If .. ,ff Mrs. Robbie lllann Uean llIcKissickl, last year's Sweet- heart Queen, places the ceremonial crown upcrn janie Hocutt, the newly elected Sweetheart Queen for 1963. Page Twenty-three