Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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1. Janet Cremone, Editor-ln-Chief. 2. Elysis Greenberg, Co-editor of Organiza- tions. 3. Arthur Cote and Susan Adam work on Faculty Section. 4. Maureen Mulcahy, advertising co-editor. 5. Judy Brunick, Copy Editor, finishes copy for football layout. 6. Joel Weisberg and Alan Miller with Kenny Willinger, co- head, 7. Mr. Appleyard, advisor, confers with Marie Cocco about page plans. 8. Nancy Kelogg writes copy for Guidance Department layout. 12 'itwl 1 'uf We 1- ,L Q xt. . ,417 ,4--U' f-wffe YM- , . mf.....c , ,

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sfaab The Student Faculty Adminis- tration Advisory Board was origi- nally founded to reform and abol- ish obsolete rules and to main- tain an official channel of com- munication among students, faculty, and administrators. The board consists of one sopho- more, two juniors, two seniors, five teachers, and five adminis- trators. Unfortunately, much of the SFAAl3's potential was bound- ed by the limits of bureaucracy, and visible progress was slow. The first meeting was called to order on October 25, 1973, by Mr. Philip Darragh. Marie Cocco was elected chairwoman, the first student ever to head the SFAAB Motions were made in favor of researching, creative assemblies, state laws regarding gym classes with the possibility that gym class become an elective, and the po- tential formation ofa student council to replace the SFAAB. The second meeting was held on November 29, and the pendu- lum of change swung toward the liberal direction. It was decided that within this school Ms. would be more commonly used than Mrs or Miss to elimi- nate differentiation of marital status. Exploring sex discrimina- tion in sports and other student activities was also discussed. lt was also proposed that gym classes be academically graded subjects. The December SFAAB meeting was adjourned without ever really being convened because a quo- rum of twelve was not formed. The board continued to meet on the last Thursday of each month for the remainder of the year. Suggestions were introduced, committees were formed, and research was done. Even though concrete action was not taken on every issue mentioned during the year, the SFAAB represented a mode for a free interchange of thought from all branches of the school community. 11

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1 ' f ' 'Q 3 Y .iff fg.!T.!E'L f, 5, QU e A, 1 'S it 1 7 V, gg fft ' ., ..!f, if f, ,f V- x,,,.- t A - f l - .-' r 'h..--f' . - 4 3 i I ' ..-mg ' Q 7-1 ,l .t,,m.jQj MQ, ' , r 'mc .pw Yearbooks are history books, anthologies of events for specific periods of time in specific places. This year, the Maldonian, staff focused on Malden High in 1973-74, hope- fully avoiding the trap of com- piling a book which could per- tain to any school in any year. To insure that the contents of the 1974 Maldonian would support the title, significant and drastic changes had to be made in the traditional format. In September the staff under- stood too well the need to up- date the overused layout styles and trite, general, copy. Janet Cremone, editor and lVlr. Richard Appleyard, the new advisor, constantly em- phasized these goals. By the beginning of October, every- one had memorized Janet's lectures of Change, Maldonian, and You the Staff , so that positive action in the direction of change be- gan to be implemented in ev- ery department. Since change itself was more than relevant, it was adopted as the theme of the yearbook. The secondary fo- cus was on details that differ- entiated the 1973-74 school year from all other years. The traditionally formal structure of the faculty section was abandoned for a more casual one. Sectionalized coveraged was given to every department, organization, sport, and event through the use of question- aires and journalistic report- ing. Student life was empha- sized so that the yearbook would be more personal. Lo- cal, state and national events were considered. Malden High is part of a bigger world. Sections of the book were submitted to the publisher by deadlines agreed upon in Sep- tember but cursed in February Pictures and pages were num- bered accordingly, and the designated code number for Malden High was written at the bottom of each page until it ran through everyone's minds, likea tune, O865O la ... la ... la .. Could it really have been 4000 times someone had to write that number. Although the staff often found themselves under a strain to escape falling into creativity ruts, each deadline was successfully met, some- times accompanied by sighs of relief. More satisfying than any individual milestones reached during the construction of the yearbook though was the first glimpse of the finished prod- uct, the 1974 Maldonian. On ald 13