Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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ru8usK:»8 MALDONIAN: First Row: Lisa Miclette, Kathy Burns, Brooke Marshall, Carolyn Sampson, Richard Appleyard-Advisor, Steve O’Brien, Judy Legon, Tom Giampietro, Arthur Buono, Robin Farren, John Carozza, John Chadwick, Mark Gianatassio, James Carozza. Second Row: Michael Lutch, Nancy Griffin, Rita Cappuccio, Stacey Young, Cheryl Bates, Dan Guerin, Ann Zampitella, Janice McWade, Robin Vozzella, Brian Phillips, Top Row: Judy Didio - associate editor, Doreen Nocella - co-editor, Ann Marie Zipperi - co-editor, Am Brudnick - associate editor, Sheara Brand. Organization of selling ads for the yearbook is the responsi¬ bility of Stacey Young. TOP: Reporting the current issues for the newspaper is Kevin Cullen Maldonian and Blue and Gold challenged each other to the best of three games of volleyball. Waiting for the announcement of the official score by referee John O ' Brien and scorekeeper Nancy Griffin are Frank Tortorella, Walter Hong, James Carozza, Mark Left, Kevin Cullen and Frank Wright. 26 maldonian - blue and gold • boojum rock

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-•r V- ■ T he dictionary says that an important part of community is the fact that its members share common goals. Perhaps because we are Americans we tend to lose sight of the idea. Actually, a school community is a whole series of goals laid on top of each other. In some cases the goals are designed so that they might be more acceptable to a larger number of people. We all remember the endless series of contests in grammar school which were really designed to teach us spelling or math. Sometimes “our” goals were not “their” goals. What was really remarkable about our community was not that so many goals were hidden but that when we understood the goals we were willing and capable of doing so much. Publishing was like that. We were all accustomed to finding fault with this or that story in the Blue and Gold or that certain picture in Maldonian but what was really remarkable was that we could have done so much. Only the athlete realized the physical and mental demands that soccer or football necessitate and only the athlete knows that the season is more than the won-lost record. The lesson is that community functions best when “the goals” are “our goals”. share common goals 25

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Pleased with the outcome of his newspaper article is Mark Mic- lette. BOT TOM LEFT: Plans for the yearbook are made by co-editors after much compromising. Doreen Nocella and Ann Marie Zipperi discuss layout ideas for the theme pages. Typist Rita Cappuccio looks over some of the Maldonian copy for any errors. Whether publishing is defined in terms of issuing the school newspaper, literary magazine, or yearbook: it involves plenty of hard work. Beyond the obvious clutter of photographs, layout paper and copy sheets there was another aspect to publishing that only a few in the school community ever came to see. The careful observer of the Blue and Gold could note a change in the ratio of feature articles to news articles. The newspaper was evolving and even the people working on it were not sure of the ultimate direction. It may never look like Time but it was becoming more of a newsmagazine with every issue. Boojum Rock by its very nature was more of a mirror of trends than the other school publications. It was after all what people submitted. For Maldonian, the attempt at defining what was unique about the year was the endless topic of conversation and planning. It’s basic, you can ' t tell the story of the year until you have settled on why the year was different, and last year’s way of doing it can’t work again. The bottom line: the yearbook looked more like a magazine. Sort of a special issue covering the year in our community. Overall it was year of introspection for the publications that are the records of our lives together. maldonian - blue and gold - boojum rock 27