Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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f -t 9,un,, Qadd cmd Qcmciw 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 Farmers 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 Hedlin, were in this picture. Another fad that lasted longer and was really fun was Nuke playing. The year l950 hnally found East Highers playing ukes at parties, club meetings, and informal get-togethers. Tom Scifo, Jean Anderson, Tom Valentine, Mavis Carlson, and Wzxrren 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 Lindskold's 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. K ,

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Wlaat rs rt th ll IS engrossrng Bud Drtto Don Lodln Jule Samuelson ean Ellrott and Carol Mrddleton so' There IS only one reply they hope to find the answer to another unsolvable Physxcs problem regardlng welghts and tensxon There IS a happy expressxon on therr faces at last, the secret IS known Etst Hrgh has mo Swedlsh glasses bet ruse 1 large number of students want to learn the language Under the gmdance of Mrss Margaret Swanson the classes take an actrve part rn uvrc. ahfarrs ts shown by th1s p1cture They are broad Lasnng a progrtm of songs ln Swedlsh, one of several they have done Some of the broadcasts have been sent to Sweden and exchanged for s1m1lar broadcasts done there 04 6: T' Q8 Before the snow fell ohn R HHIIIS, and Sture Bengtson tr1ed measurrng CllSIl0LCS wlth 1 trnpod rn trrgonometry glass by using, the parkmg lot as a rrver 1nd frgvurmg the angles to get the drsrame ' MW kill if Here, MISS Elrzabeth MLGu1res Englrsh V class, drama tmcs the famous lrnes from Mrcbcth by Shakespeare Double double toll md trouble Flre burn md cauldron bubble x,-il Qunamiaatcvw and 27114414 Heh .9n6Uzu6 9 a r , , - - V - - - s- . 2 2 , ,v 5 V . . I Gm' , 2 , J , ra ' 1 I I , I S I . 5 A ... , 2 ' ' 5 , K1 I 4 '2 k 2 ' ' 2 '2 2 A ' , 2 I . c 4 . L 4 I l , , Q L L h S ' l 2 . 2 ' . 2 - 3 2 2 . 2 .2 x q .Aga 'V ' K4 5- l f r . 'S X ' . 5 4 fn- In - . fe 17 I ,iw x ., 2 wi V - A fillwle xx 5,,,mv. M . ' '1 xy W, . 1 4 t A ' s.. ' , -ig 7--2 ,. . A . 2: .2. .I 4, ' , . 4 B, 2 433, . - -2 . -1, . M .,.2 ,W - . '4'ss Q -Av ' 4 ,J - 1 l . if 1- 1 . 1 ' 1 ' 2 t . 2 . 2 2 , , 2 , . 2 2 2 2 2 . f Y . 2 2 2 ' . I I I 1 1

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.Deo-meffzing Wai :folded 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. Y x N 'X RX XR XX S. GE 21