Sayreville War Memorial High School - Quo Vadis Yearbook (Parlin, NJ)

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TOP: Combining (heir efforts, Sean Carney and Bill Lyons prepare a bowl of ambrosia ABOVE: During a business ed. class, Amy Nesterwitz proofreads a previous page TOP: Students cluster around a reference shelf busily looking for important information. ABOVE: Completing a drafting assignment John Tischer tries to pick up a few pointers. 15

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Degrees of Change Warm weather comes. You stop worrying about the radiators in the room, and turn to the windows. Classes that were suspended because it was too cold to think are cancelled because it's too hot to move. You're forced to admire the delicate irony of the fact that even if the school had central air conditioning they wouldn't be allowed to use it any- way. When the day ends you give up doing your homework to “go out and enjoy the fresh air, because all win- ter you had to give up doing your homework to go to the movies, or go bowling, or go over somebody's house to listen to records. Nobody hangs out at Woodbridge Center, they've all gone to the beach. TOP: In his spare time Mike Okie discovers one of the many new books purchased by the Board of Education. RIGHT: As Chuck Jankech records data, Mike Henderson and Scott Pear- son learn the procedures of lab chemistry. 14

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The Flame That Burned Brightest The year ends, and everything has changed. You swear you'll never let go of your old friends and you can't wait to meet all those new people at college. You wonder what it's like to leave home, and you wonder how you ever lived through this year of shortages and crises. You won't learn the truth unti years later, that this year was the most full of any you ever had, and that you were the flame that burned brightest through the year. It will take a longer while until you realize that on Graduation Day 1980 you left the truest home you'll ever know.