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

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allowing students to participate in a variety of events East’s eighty-eight-voice choir often sings at public performances, this one on the staircase of Ivey’s Department Store in Charlotte. Such performances in addition to daily rehearsing develop the talents of many students, not only those in the choir but also those in the chorus classes and girls’ ensemble as well. Frequent informal dances offer all students an opportunity to relax from their studies and extra-curricular activities by par- ticipating in currently popular dances. At the Howdy Dance, Seniors Janyce Howell, Anne Bistany, Lamar Phillips, and Tony Little in the foreground “twist” as underclassmen visit and join in the dancing. Page Eleven

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East offers a wide selection of activities ; Although few of the hundreds of boys on East’s athletic teams get the spotlight as often as our star basketball player Johnnie Willard, here in a game against Raleigh’s Caps, they nevertheless gain skill through participation and competition, a just reward in itself. One of the memorable acts in the Student Council’s variety show is the Marshals’ spoof on a current popular teenage song — “Leader of the Pack.” The pack wheeling in on its “motorcycles,” Julie (Andrea Marwitz) grieving over the wrecked leader (David Stevenson), and the pack carrying the leader’s body off the stage are a few of the highlights of this act. Page Ten

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Classroom work gives individuals a chance to show personal accomplishments Seniors in their classes are often tested on their work, allowing them to demonstrate their proficiency or point out their weaknesses. At East where education is the focal point of school activity, classroom exercises are standard procedure throughout the students’ three years at East, culminating in the senior year as students prepare for college or a business career — and for life.