Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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BOTTOM: Junior Lisa Fitzgerald clowns a bit with electrical equipment at the rear of Jenkins auditorium. Hallways were a maze of construction material agravating the usual problems of getting on time to the more remote areas of the school. It’s different for us. We see more clearly now what only a few saw then. For people who lived through both per¬ iods it seems strange to experience a whole generation of kids who have no difficulty living with the idea that many problems can’t be avoided and can’t be solved. New York went broke and the city that had often boasted, it could not be run, finally proved that the old joke was a reality. Worse, the fate of “Fun City’’ seemed like it might be¬ come the fate of all the nation’s big cities. Post Johnson government seemed to give up on beautifing Amer¬ ica, indeed we began to realize that pollution was here to stay. Oil and gas¬ oline were the first of the ages scarci¬ ties. Lines became part of our life. We became accustomed to being told that there wasn’t any of what we wanted. We had little choice but to learn to live as well as possible with situations that we had not created and could not con¬ trol. Perhaps things were calming down. Gone was the domestic turmoil of the 1960’s. The political upheaval of the early seventies had been stabilized. One president, Ford had returned us to normalcy, smoothing out the agonies left behind by his predecessor. Carter holds out the promise of our traditions, simple religion, stable family, trust in the common people. Things seemed more together. While life seemed to be proceeding in a more orderly manner there were still prob¬ lems and hassles to be worked out. However there was a new awareness, a sense of how to deal with them, we could cope. 4 theme

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M:h LEFT: A lot of furniture had not yet arrived when school opened. Gym and study students were pressed into service to move and assemble desks and chairs. Heating was erratic at best. Coats, scarves, and mittens were common classroom sights. theme 3

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LEFT: Workman restore a door to the English Department office that had originally been walled up. The celebrated misaligned wall of the first phase of the addition. The columns were off by some nine inches causing a building committee vote to tear the whole thing down and resulting in several months of delay and arbitration. TOP: In December a newly installed oil tank began to leak. It too became the focus of charges and counter charges that dragged on for months. S ' theme 5