Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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Beset with scheduling problems through the first phase of the new construction, the mild winter was almost too good to believe from a job bosses ' s point of view. By late winter B building containing principally the library and cafeteria was ahead of schedule. Working under a $500 a day late fine that threatened to accumalate into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, company supervisors were delighted with the lack of snow and warm weather. In a court appearance two years ago, the company had pleaded inability to make progress because some basic steel work was stranded in the snows of Pennsylvania. The fines continued to accumulate, the job as a whole was still behind schedule but everyone seemed relieved that it was no longer necessary to offer or argue with the excuses that had marked the first two years of the twenty one million dollar expansion project. construction continues 14 construction

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1. Protestors outside Boston City Hall shortly after Presidident Carter ' s State ot the Union Message in which he called for draft registration. 2. The energy crunch sent many of us into the woods of New Hampshire in search of alternative fuel. 3. The Pope ' s visit to Boston Common on October first. 4. The Russian invasion of Afghanistan kicked off a new round of war talk and reaction to that talk. 5. The Mayor of Maldon, England and his wife greet citizens of their American sister city. images 13

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1. The nearly completed west wall of B building rises above Malden Square. 2. The eastern end of B building, the library wall, under construction in late February. 3. Refurbishing the old gym. 4 . The mild winter provided favorable opportunity for the construction company which moved quickly on B building to make up for a late schedule. construction 15