Eastern High School - Echo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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l Early in the fall comes the first in a series of traditional assemblies, inaugura- tion of Student Council officers. Each girl makes her serious, hopeful-of-a-better-year speech calling for better traffic movement, better cafeteria arrangements, better cooperation, and better student self-gov- ernment. ln a matter of weeks comes senior inaugural with more oaths and more speeches as the senior officers also look forward to a wonderful year. This time a special fervor marks the singing of the senior song, Standing proudly on the hill- side, she's a friend of youth . . . Li

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As soon cus the first closses meet, there is chonge. This is the yeor of the Supreme Court decision bonning proyer in public schools, ond o new order for opening the oloy quickly becomes routine.

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Winter has settled in, spring is, indeed, far behind as students return to face quarterly tests, term papers, and semester's end. The emphasis is now on work. Seniors restlessly watch the mail al- though it will be months before the last word on college acceptances will be in. The days drag. Will there be a snow day? Happy thought! Looking for breaks in the monotony, publications workers plan their trip to Columbia, iuniors get their rings, and sophomores-complete now with officers, banner, motto, and song-re- hearse their play. Basketball replaces speedball as a team sport. But the days drag.