Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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LEFT: FUTURE NURSES ASSOCIATION: FRONT ROW: Lisa Pacini, Nancy Hyde, Roseann Carbone, Debra Lucas, Lauren Meuse, Karen Johnson, TOP ROW: Mary Ann Tavano, Lynne Nickerson, Linda DiPersio, Brenda Blair, Lisa Bonsignor, Sandra Goodman, Phyllis Tavano. LOWER LEFT: The Greenroom production of Lifeguard”: The clubs entry in the High School Drama Festival. Robert Gautreau and Steven O’Brien star as water shy guards. Greenroom members Cheryl DiGangi and Marisa Firmani plead with the Governor, played by Advisor John O’Brien, while lifeguards Bob Gautreau and Steve O’Brien look on. Following the trend of recent years, interest in the club snene seems to be fading and no where is that fading interest more visible than in the specialty clubs. The Future Teachers of America Club, a familiar organization for years, never got off the ground, although listed in the Student Guide. At the start of the year the Ecology Club campaigned for new members; they failed. Halfway through the year they became Explorer Post 61 and campaigned again for new members with about the same degree of success. Perhaps the problem is that these clubs are geared to more distant goals, seeming to call for sacrifice without return. Greenroom is a case in point. The immediate rewards of acting are in the applause. Less than enthusiastic audience attendance had taken its toll. Nevertheless Greenroom did make the traditional Globe Drama Festival entry despite disappointing attendance at Greenroom Night in early March. Curiously, the most vital of the special interest clubs was the one that demanded the most of its members. Future Nurses functioned normally; visiting medical facilities, exploring nursing careers, and interminably meeting “in the Nurse’s office at lunch time”. special interest clubs geared to distant goals. fna, greenroom, eco 21

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too few returns THE NEWLY FORMED EXPLORER POST 61: FRONT ROW: Lisa Bossardt, Donna Spinelli, Cheryl Carr, Donna Doucette, Ruth Sutherland, Lori Sullivan, IN TREE: Frank Novia, Bob Zides, Steve Baberadt, Joe Westerman, John Proper. . -r- S GREENROOM: FRONT ROW: Arthur Buono, Julie Breslin, Cheryl DiGangi, Advisor John O’Brien, Steve O ' Brien, Robin Piven, Janice Kravitz, ON LADDER: Norvin Leach, Bob Gautreau, Sharon Swartz, Ellen Hannon, Mary Castrini, Robert Zides not present. 20 fna, greenroom, eco

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For 2100 kids, Monday, February 6 was to be just another day, number 90 in fact, halfway point of the school year. As flurries blew in the increasing gales it became clear that a storm of incredible magnitude was about to preclude school the next day. Everyone went home smiling, anticipating the no school announcements that were sure to come. When people awoke Tuesday morning a blanket of snow a foot deep covered all of southern New England. Blizzard conditions cancelled almost every aspect of normal life. The Governor declared a state of emergency. Anyone who drove without special clearance was to be arrested. Meanwhile, snow accumulations of 30 inches closed major highways. One stretch of Rt. 128 was clogged by over 2000 trapped cars. The sea, driven by hurricane winds, blasted the coastline. Flooding was rampant in Revere, perhaps the hardest hit community and houses along the south shore were wrecked. Most schools cancelled classes for the month. Surreal is the only work that can describe the storm’s aftermath. Sans cars, droves of pedestrians crowded the streets, surveying the uninterruppted whiteness. Only now did people realize that they had survived not a storm, but a phenomenon. A very hot item in the weeks that followed was “Survivor of the Blizzard of ’78” t-shirts. 22 storm of ' 78