Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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1. Retired Head of Food Services at the high school, Gus DiSano, accepts congratulations after the recently completed cafeteria complex was dedicated in his honor. 2. The construction of a new parking garage looms largely over Malden Square. The garage is part of the revitalization of the downtown area expected to bring a large influx of shoppers into the city. 3. The return of class and club advisors made events such as the CAM Teachers Tea possible. Seniors Maureen Sullivan and Mary Ellen Zimmerman balance the refreshments provided by CAM for the enjoyment of the school’s faculty. 4. The band sits perched on the edge of the new construction in the stands of Pearl Street Stadium. f. • '

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A Year of Adjustment It was a year of adjustment, a year of adapting to realities none of us would have chosen. Across the nation millions of Americans were adjusting to being unemployed. More than one expert predicted that the recession and the adjustments it forced on us were more or less permanent. In the South Atlantic, Great Britan fought an almost comic Argentine dictatorship in a comic setting, a little island of 1800 sheepherders, with less than comic results — 962 died. In Moscow Leonid Brezhnev died and the world cautiously adjusted to new Russian leadership. There were other adjustments to be made. The National Football League strike forced husbands to communicate with their wives for eight long weeks. Americans adjusted to the idea that medicines like Tylenol might not necessarily be trustworthly. Perhaps the cruelest change of all was adjusting to a world without “Doonesbury” as cartoonist Gary Trudeau called it quits in early January. The year was marked by more than the usual number of ironies. In Lebanon the world watched the bloodiest conflict of the year unfold between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. The images on our television screens showed a red Ferris wheel peaking through the smoke over war ravaged Beirut harbor. Wind surfers moved through the fleet of ships landing a peace keeping force. In Washington a new memorial was dedicated. The design history of the monument was marked by controversy. Some wanted to add a flag. Some wanted to add a statue. The artist wanted it left alone. The belated Viet Nam War Memorial reminded us all of a war too many would like to forget. The addition of freshmen teams competing for gym space and strictures on overtime for custodians resulted in the varsity boys ' basketball team practicing at 5:30 in the morning, three days a week through the early winter. ' ■T ' M.:::,, ' .,,i Adapting 3

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2 -’r 41 Optimism Mixed With Doubt Downtown Malden was changing. The old Jordan Marsh building was rehabilitated as a sort of mini-mall. Two major parking garages were under construction. The Route 60 by-pass was finally complete. “The Square’’ teetered on the edge of becoming something quite different than what it had been when generations of students associated it with “going to the high school.” Apartments, condominiums, professional offices were beginning to dominate a dwindling number of retail stores. It was sad, and perhaps good, this adjustment to a new, less lively “campus.” Any year brings its catologue of sorrows and hopes. We would all have to adjust to living in a world without John Belushi, Grace Kelly, Margaret Truman, Ingrid Berman. We would have to live without a Kennedy presidential run at least until ’84. According to Time we would have to learn to live with computers even in our home. The magazine actually named the machine its Man of the Year. Then too there was some hope in the Mideast. The situation we were told had changed enough so that some real peace progress was now possible. Personality buffs had a good, if ambiguous year. The Pulitizer divorce provided seemingly endless headlines. William Arthur Philip Louis the new heir to the British Throne provided cute baby pictures. Finally there was E.T., the creature “only a mother could love” according to creator Steve Spielberg. The nation cried when he went home. The images of the year were as always mixed. Adapting 5