Rockford East High School - Argus Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Qian, Qadd cmd Qcmalled November 9, saw many East High girls garbed in men's shirts on backwards, with silk scarves around their necks. You're right, it was Senior Farmerls Day at East. You can imagine the sur- prised expression of the Armistice Day speaker when he saw half of his audience dressed as Donna Mislon, Dolores Elwood, Jennie Kluz, Kay Hed- rick, and Karin I-Iedlin, were in this picture. Another fad that lasted longer and was really fun was nuke playing. The year 1950 finally found East Highers playing ukes at parties, club meetings, and informal get-togethers. Tom Scifo, Jean Anderson, Tom Valentine, Mavis Carlson, and Warren Landstrom, were caught strumming and humming at a joint Hi-Y and Y-Teen meet- ing. Did Arthur Godfrey ever expect this? Though harmful initiations are not approved of at East, some harmless fun is, and here Lucy Pottinger carries, as penalty for being initiated, a well-loaded lunch tray for the senior members of GAA. Part of Ruthie Lindskoldls ABL initiation job was to push a pencil with her nose across the Little Theatre stage floor. Later ABL had a pot-luck supper in the cafe- teria where new members waited on the older ones and ate jello and spaghetti with their fingers. Some of the pins used to identify various club members at East are shown at the left.

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What is it that is engrossing Bud Ditto, Don Lodin, Jule Samuelson, Jean Elliott, and Carol Middleton so? There is only one replyg they hope to find the answer to another unsolvable Physics problem regarding weights and tension. There is a happy expression on their faces-at last, the secret is known. East High has two Swedish classes because a large number of students want to learn the language. Under the guidance of Miss Margaret Swanson, the classes take an active part in civic affairs as shown by this picture. They are broad- casting a program of songs in Swedish, one of several they have done. Some of the broadcasts have been sent to Sweden and exchanged for similar broadcasts done there. 1 strife. Before the snow fell, john R. Harris, and Sture Bengtson tried measuring distances with a tripod in trigonometry class by using the parking lot as a river and figuring the angles to get the distance. Here, Miss Elizabeth McGuirels English V class, drama- tizes the famous lines from Macbeth by Shakespeare: Double, double, toil and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Q, widows and flfuyw HM: :Ewen gniwwf 19

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.920-mefftirtg new Wai Jfdded Though the elevator shaft has been in the building for ten years, the elevator, located in the right wing of the building, was just installed this year. It will hold one and one-half tons but has never been that full yet. Mr. Orput demonstrates how useful it is to use by assisting the janitors to haul waste to the basement to be burned. A really new addition to East is the TV tower built on top of the shop building by the combined help of the electrical classes and Architectural Iron Works. The tower has ten foot angle irons to hold it in place and will first be used for FM, AM, and TV. Later, other high frequency and transmitting antennae will be installed. Besides the TB x-rays taken this year, seniors were given an opportunity to have dental x-rays taken free of charge. Here the visiting dentist shoots a picture of Valerie Thomas's teeth. The x-ray pictures were then returned to students who in turn could take them to their own dentists for analysis. Q 35 .sl : H if ii Q ,ti N' t N., A rx i , , 1 sxtgy, xxx? I 9 NNN C E i 'ie NS 3 m..,,w , . in i 1