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

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ENERGY... OR THE LACK OF IT We will remember this year most for its long gas lines and high fuel cost. Energy, or lack of it, was sud- denly important to everybody, including students. The country's energy problem at once became our own personal energy problem, and if that meant no beach party on Labor Day, it was a true crisis. Energy awareness penetrated all facets of our lives. While the Kinks sang on the car radio about not being able to find a gallon of gas, we waited hours in stand-still lines to buy five dollars worth at half-gallon prices. No longer objects of worship, our cars became symbols of oppres- sion as the gas gauge slipped closer and closer to E in an effort to stretch our fuel dollar. If the prices seemed more bearable this fall it was only because then we didn't have the spectre of odd-even gas rationing. Even if the gas supply seemed less limited, few of us forgot the fuel frenzy and the time of the ever hungry gas tank.

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before the official Start of school. ABOVE: Gene Ruggiere and )eff Montemurro BELOW. Student Council members prepare Deep in your stomach you have a lit- share a laugh between drafting projects. the Welcome sign for returning students. tie sense of uneasiness and of expec- tation. Each time you go down Wash- ington Road you pass the school and read the threat on the sign, Wel- come back. You say to whoever you are with, I can't bear the thought of going back to that, but you both know you mean you can't wait. 4