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

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Students always take advantage of the school library’s facilities. Here students, as those in the foreground, may study during their lunch period for a test the next period, or, as those in the background, may work on a research paper or other class assignment. Page Six

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(Emttfnta ACTIVITIES 16 CURRICULUM 92 ORGANIZATIONS 32 STUDENT BODY 118 ATHLETICS 70 ADVERTISEMENTS 192 Page Five

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East’s curriculum includes many types of classes; sophomores in an orientation class spend one part of their year’s class work in the award winning art department where they are introduced to one of the many types of classes offered at East. A forty-five minute break for lunch in East’s cafeteria presents a welcome chance to talk with friends. Seniors, using their privilege of leaving classes five minutes early for lunch, take advantage of the short line and eat while underclassmen stand in line for their lunch. East is many places during different times of the day Although there are many social functions at East, the only formal occasion is the annual junior-senior prom at Park Center, where students have an opportunity to enjoy themselves. As was King Arthur’s Camelot merely a physical structure reflecting the attitudes of its inhabitants, so also is East Mecklenburg the physical buildings which house and represent the characteristics and ideals of its students, faculty, and administrators. Perhaps it is only coincidence that the four most commonly used entrances as well as the main entrance bring the visitor first past classrooms before he can reach a particular room or office, and perhaps it is only coincidence that the library is the geographical center of East, but even if these are just coincidences, it gives the visitor a feeling of the academic atmosphere. But while the main emphasis of the school is on academics, there are other aspects of student life recognized by the faculty and administrators and provided for the students. Any visitor to East after the school day ends at three o’clock would notice many of the thirty-nine active organizations meeting or working on a project, and there are usually students in one of the nine sports offered at East engaged in either practice or actual competition with a visiting team. The major accomplishment of East is not that it offers so many activities in which most of its students participate, but rather that it offers so many varied activities that any student may participate in the areas to which he can contribute the most and from which he may gain the most. This, then, is why East, like Camelot, will be forever remembered by those who lived and worked there. Page Seven