Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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( t seems that we have arrived in a new I age. The events of this year seem to have changed the stage of our “human pilgrimage. Who would have forseen, after pondering the happenings of the last few decades, the sudden recognition of the Red China regime, the election of a Polish Pope, the birth of a test tube baby? 1984 is creeping closer. Its outlines can be read, and fortunately they are not totally Orwellian. Absolute evil triumphed here and there in 1978, but nowhere absolutely. Yet, the year brought a rush of horror stories, the most ghastly being the slaughter in Guyana. No one seems to be able to exactly define the many changes that we are experiencing. There are so many questions and too few answers. During the year, the background changed. Massachusetts elected a new U.S. Senator and new Governor. Yet some things remained the same. The Red Sox, in their customary manner, lost another pennant, and the state government remained as muddled as ever. Our society changed. People spoke out for what they didn’t want anymore, trying to block an older world that had grown too expensive, too ineffective. A new hope beckoned, but defining what we did not want hardly seemed a promising beginning. The old truth remained; the world is only at peace with those who are of good will, in this age or any other.

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