Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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ACADEMICS E very year is different. There are different teachers, students and problems. One year it was the tearing down of the old brick building, another year it was the building of an addition. This year there was another entire class at MHS. Some things, however, never change. When it comes to the area of academics there will always be basically the same old problems no matter what year it is. School just somehow wouldn ' t be the same without homework. No matter how hard we tried, many times we just couldn ' t seem to avoid it. Many times we came pretty close by putting every assignment off until the last possible minute, but in the end the homework was still there staring us in the face. After all the procrastination we still had to do the work, but in a shorter period of time. And of course there is always the question of where to do the homework, or in most cases where to pretend you were doing it. At home? Do homework at home? That didn ' t sound like much fun. At the library sounded much better, especially when there were at least fifteen others doing the same thing at the same time. And it didn ' t matter that you didn ' t get much done, anyway. Academics involved everyone at MHS. There were those who did homework, those who told themselves they did homework, and those who didn ' t bother to kid themselves. No matter what category a student did fall under, the fact is that he she did manage to solve the problem. Students in the library show diverse studying styles— some alone, some together. ' 28 Academics

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1. The soap opera-like trial of jet-setter Claus Von Bulow was the scandal of the year. 2. Ferndando Valenzuela, Cy Young award winner, was the rookie star of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Valenzuela posted a record of 13 wins and 7 losses during a season split into two halves because of the Baseball Strike. The strike lasted from the middle of June to the beginning of August and cancelled more than 50 games. 3. Raiders of the Lost Ark, which made over 100 million dollars, was one of the biggest movies of the year. 4. Arthur Boyle, principal of Malden High School, was shown on a Boston network television show about violence and vandalism in Massachussetts high schools 5. Wayne Williams was found guilty of two murders of Black children in Atlanta, wih the possibility of being linked to more than twenty. 6. One of the most read comic strips of the year was Garfield, an overweight, obnoxious and grouchy cat who does what he pleases. 7. The draft registration forces Dave Curran to fill out a draft reistration card at the post office. 8. The Lynn fire, whic destroyed many blocks and buildings, was the biggest the city had ever seen and one of the largest in Massachusetts. Images 27

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