Eastmont High School - Emo Echo Yearbook (East Wenatchee, WA)

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MW. Qwwf ,M My wu.LlE's REALM This year has been a gr-r-reat one. It's been swell being your mascot. You're a good bunch of goods. We've had some good times and some bad times together this year. Some of you will be graduating and thrown out into the big, cruel, outside world that's really not that rough. The class of 1964 is minus two of its valuable members due to tragic circumstances: Sandra Grant, who died of cancer on February 19, and Mark Cunning, who has been out of school since last spring, due to a serious automobile accident. In November, just before Thanksgiving, President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed by an assassin in Dallas, Texas. It was a time of great mourning and depression, but we managed to pull through it. I'm real proud of our boys the way they beat those Wenatchee Panthers in both basketball and wrestling. Those gorgeous cheerleaders and the student body cheered the boys on towards victory. There were lots of new teachers this year. They had a fresh, young approach. We had loads of fun raising money to help the Washington State JC's in their effort to build a hospital for the people of Kerala, India. Those noon dances sure were a blast. We always look forward to the yearly Apple Blossom Festival. I don't mean to sound soft-hearted, but it really makes me feel proud to see us in the grand parade--our beautiful princess on the East Wenatchee float, the band, and the drill team. Of course I'm prejudiced, but I think this is a pretty fine annual. I've looked through it, and they've included just about everything. Naturally I supervised the work on the Emo Echog I had a pretty selfish interest, since the theme is Willie's Realm. They've got some pretty good pic- tures of me in here. fI'm so good lookinglj I know you'll enjoy this Emo Echo for 1964. I did. . See ya next year.

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WILLIE PRCUDLV DEDICATES THE I964 EMO ECHO TO MR. IRVING IRISH There's a very interesting classroom down in the middle of the first floor. Structurally, it's just a classroom like any of the others, but there the resemblance ends. The room becomes very personalizedg it is filled with the spirit of the teacher, a man deeply interested in his subject. A small but adequate green house has been erected in a corner of the room. In it are growing many interesting and rare plants. On mantles in the front and back are perched Various birds and small animals, all stuffed by the teacher and his students. All along one other wall, on a high bulletin board, are tacked numerous prints of plants and birds. Everything has been carefully collected, taken care of, and put up by loving hands. A great many students enter this room as sophomores who are taking biology in order to fulfill their laboratory science requirement. Some return to take the advanced course of Zoology and botany. In addition to the textbook work, Mr. Irish provides variation by having films and lab work, including the proverbial dissection of the frog. Sometimes he reads articles relating to the studies which he has clipped out of various newspapers and magazines over the years. Mr. Irish carne to us from Kellogg, Idaho, where he had taught. He was raised in Idaho and attended the University of Idaho in his student days. Idaho's loss is our gain. , Students enter the classroom at the start of the school year, thinking that they are just going to put in their time and receive their credit. But it doesn't work out that way, They become fascinated by the study of plants and animals and want to learn more. Thank you, Mr. Irish, for being such a good teacher.