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

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1 I I X f 1 3 I' fl ju l 'N 'J T jx Posters plastered the walls during elections. R, -2''-f.i:':?.r.w.,t:v,v. fc'-..f-.Sf -. . lag' .Mya Xu ei 's:.-f,,':Y23'rh'- 1 H - ' - f ' 4. 52 1. V 2 A .rf -. ' -' V x sgfedavyig-x--.YK-1'f .f V. f: , X . NN -Hn ..: KX -Ari: NM . xx xx nu' ,- XYZ I A gr Y 4 J candidate's posters. No posters were allowed to be put up before twenty-five minutes after three. The posters were put up and the great wave of students receded from the halls. Cn Tuesday and Thursday of the same week, registration was held, and only those students that were registered were allowed to vote. The week following poster day and reg- istration was a frantic one with smiling candidates, scurrying campaign man- agers, and enthusiastic students boosting their candidates. On March 21, the assembly was held at the end of the day, and the students filed into the gym to hear the campaign speeches. Besides the campaign speeches, the students heard the last address of the out-going president before the student body, and 'f 5 3 ! ' ' ?. i X ow -5 S they watched the finalists for cheer leader try out. Then on the next day they cast their ballot for their candidate Suddenly all the work and planning came to a resounding finish. The halls are jammed with students as they wait to put-upfposters for their candidates. Page Twentyffive

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it 'cnt Student Council Elections were, as always, a time of excitement, specula- tion, and campaigning. It all began with the nominations in the homerooms. Each homeroom nominated one person for each of the four ofhces, and then the nominating committee met to choose among those nominated. The nominat- ing committee announced its slate, and then anyone who wanted to run was allowed to do so by getting one hundred and fifty students to sign his petition. This year, howeyer, no one petitioned and so the slate put up by the nominat- ing committee was the final slate. On the same clay as the announcement of the final slate, the posters were put up. Students began to fill the hall about three o'clock to reserve space for their .i ck 3 at O

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...5 ,gp-..., 'L 7 'i Ellison Honeycutt and Steve Hobbs act as lzeralds wlrile Judy Cloritz and Marion Redd are about to be introduced lay Powell Huitt and Lorrie Doherty in tlze Grand March. af 'W Ml l V' . 515:15 'Y Qzi,' un.. if i East's celebrities quietly await the end of the Grand March after their participation in the formal ceremony.