Woodbridge High School - Baronet Yearbook (Woodbridge, NJ)

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gn Retrospect . As FREsHMEN the majority of us were not unfamiliar with the complexities of pink slips, blue slips, green slips. We had been in the building the previous year, but now we were a part of Woodbridge High School. The Kickoff Dance, an undefeated freshman football team Ca sure sign of future greatnessj, and fine fresh- man basketball and baseball squads nurtured in us a boundless school spirit. A year of singing in the audi- torium and some homework on the side culminated in the highlight of the seasonjs social calendar, the Fresh- man Party. We began the sophomore year with great expecta- tions. Our class officers were jim Dunda, Ermellene Coppola, jane Campbell, and Ginny Kollar, the class was to be led academically by the 'explorersi' , our ath- letes were destined to participate in varsity competition. Class enthusiasm was somewhat dampened, however, because some of us attended school in the afternoon and others, in the morning. The untimely death of Mary Ann Cvawdun saddened our hearts. Undaunted, we dove headlong into a year highlighted by an out- standing Sophomore Variety Show and an informative language program. Julius Caesar's Gallic conquests and alternate interior angles sharpened our intellects. Learn- ing to read the newspaper broadened our scopes of in- terest. At the year's end, as more Princeton haircuts loomed, the Sophomore Party left us eager to become upper classmen and to enjoy our remaining two years even more than we had enjoyed those past. United in the morning session, the class of 1961 entered its junior year an integral part of the largest high school in New jersey. Ably led by Ed Mayer, janet Ruesch, Carole Law, and Barbara Cook, we held two junior parties, one when Autumn Leaves fell, and the other in the spring. The junior Revue had the school singing Over There. juniors dominated the football and basketball squads. We sold enough candy to sustain Woodbridge Township for seven months. Yet our year was not entirely a series of exciting social events, for, with term papers in English, library assignments, bibliographies, newspapers, and important television programs, we had our fill of intellectual pur- suits. Our academic leaders were inducted into the Na- tional Honor Society, we ordered our class rings, and we realized that, since we no longer were lined up to select our dancing partners, we were big girls and boys. In not too many months, we would be rehearsing for graduation,

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