Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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1. For the first time in the history of the NFL, the players association called a strike which wiped out eight weeks of play and forced millions of fans into new hobbies to occupy free Sunday afternoons. When play resumed, a makeshift nine- game schedule was devised which culminated with a Washington Redskin victory over Miami in the Super Bowl, or Pseudo Bowl, in Pasadena. 2. A three foot, six inch tall extra¬ terrestrial captured the hearts and imaginations of America as “E.T. became the biggest boxoffice smash of all time. 3. The last comic strip in the Doonesbury series appeared on January 3, 1983 as creator Gary Trudeau took a temporary sabbatical. 4. Longtime “Not ready for prime time player’’ and star of “Animal House,” John Belushi died of a drug overdose in Los Angeles. 5. Protests spread throughout North America and Europe as people became more aware of the possible dangers of nuclear war and called for multilateral disarmament of nuclear weapons. Images 27 A

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Adjusting To Many students, instead of taking college oriented classes, took more practical shop classes. No matter what courses students took, there were adjustments to be made by both students and teachers. All students were required to take a gym course and students as well as teachers had to adjust to larger classes. Aerobics became a positive addition to a tedious gym program. Students easily adjusted to such a favorable addition. Freshmen and Sophomore students who took exploratory shop last year were pleasantly surprised to find many new Level 1 courses in occupational Education. Among the additions were Mechanical Drawing, Auto Mechanics, Electricity, Woodworking, Graphic Arts, Drafting, and Metals, which made the shop program more palatable to many kids. Positive additions were very easy to A Standard adapt to but there were also some negative things to reckon with. These negative points were much harder to adjust to. No one was very happy about the changes, but eventually they were also accepted. College oriented students suffered when some advanced classes were eliminated or reduced, such as Sociology, Government and Politics, and Physics II. Adjustments such as these were not welcome and many students still feel cheated. Some changes didn’t occur until after the year was started and these were more easily adapted to. An attempt to reduce teacher-student ratios, making teaching easier and more effective was the easiest and most important type. Whether the changes were positive or negative they key word was adjustment. Typist work busily in a typing room on the third floor of B- building. Academics