Perth Amboy High School - Reflections / Periscope Yearbook (Perth Amboy, NJ)

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The ‘70s have shown us that equal opportunity and equality are positive virtues and that they can work within the structure of our society. An excellent example of this is the direction taken by women in sports. As we look through the sports section of this, the first yearbook of the ’80s, we see that there is almost no area of sports in which girls do not now participate. Al- though the idea of a co-ed foot- ball team may still be a bit too imaginative, the idea of equal op- portunity which it represents is certainly a challenge and a goal for the ’80s.

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As Americans, vve are learning to do more with less. This process, well learned, will be valuable to us since the lesson it teaches is that we must have the ability to change. The coming decade will present us with many problems — some already obvious — some not yet dreamed of. It is important for us, the future leaders and citizens of our country, to understand the pressures which we have already encountered and view the resul- tant change as part of the solution to the challenges which lie ahead. 5

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Our ability to change and accept more than one way of doing things was clearly reflected in the dress of the 70s. Jeans went from casual, “cowboy” clothes to the highest rung of the fashion ladder. They were once cheap, comfortable pants; they are now costly designer fashions — for both men and women. Skirts which have, in length, gone up and down as much as the stock market, have settled somewhere in the middle, with suggestive slits at the sides, or front, or back, or both.