Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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V CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Converse Square along Main Street. Malden Center attracted many people who ran low on food, short on tempers and had contracted cabin fever during the snowbound days in February. Eastern Massachusetts was declared a national disaster area. National Guardsmen were pressed into duty to remove snow, direct traffic and help the stranded. National Guardsmen were an unusual and for some frightening sight patrolling the streets and turning cars back at entrances to the city until Monday night. Salem Street in front of old Malden High was still covered with snow four days after the storm but many people ventured into the cold sharing the streets with occasional emergency vehicles. - storm of ' 78 23

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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

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JMO EASY CREDIT RIGHT: CONCERT CHOIR: FRONT ROW: Nanette Kurpieski, Ann Westerman, Karen Sheridan, Cheryl DiGangi, Julie Breslin, Lisa Goffredo, Rachel Derby, Eric Taylor, David Malta, Robert Frazer, John Harrington, James Madden, Bob Boyd, Advisor John Haeussler, SECOND ROW: Maureen Hines, Janet Gottschalk, Debbie Go rfine, Pam Fornier, Lori Sullivan, Donna Giunta, Maryanne Dedrick, Ruth Sutherland, John Shea, David O’Connell, Michael Morganti, Bob Gautreau, Denise McDermod, James Spinale, TOP ROW: Janice McWade, JoAnn Colella, Beverly Langston, Patty Duran, Denise DiLuca, Jeanine Larson, Lisa Bossardt, Neil McQuaid, Philip Hirsch, John Proper, John Ventura, Kent Gray, Kevin McDonald, Russel Kauffman, Ron Learned, Michael Thomas. MADRIGAL: FRONT ROW: Ruth Sutherland, Danny Scannell, Eric Taylor, Julie Breslin, Debbie Gorfine, Robert Gautreau, TOP ROW: Advisor John Haeussler, Neil McQuaid, Lisa Bossardt, Joanne Colella, Jeanine Larson. ■ - 13 I - JM w. 1 CENTER: CHAMBER SINGERS: FRONT ROW: Advisor John Haeussler, Donna DeLorey, Peggy Verge, Rosemarie Rocco, Mary McKeon, Kim Frost, Barbara Bryson, TOP ROW: Tracy Lockhart, Lena Zagarella, Donna Feely, Diane Freede, Ruth Sutherland, Ellen Leftin, Marcy McNeil. Choral Arts at the Christmas concert. 24 music