Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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Judy Bionelli and Kristin Kelley had a good time selling hand made items to the customers. working on the fair was probably more fun than just going to shop; everyone got to help If you walked into either of the cafeterias on November 17, your eyes met with nearly a hundred tables of crafts and gift items. You had just walked into the third annual Arts and Crafts Fair sponsored by the Class of ' 86 For the young ones, there were appearances by Nedlam and the Cookie Monster, face painting and balloons. For adults, there were crafts of every kind. If it was food you had in mind, there was a large selection. Salad-in-a-pouch and pizza and french fries just to name a few. The Crafts fair wasn ' t open just to students and teachers of M.H.S. Tables were sold for fifteen dollars and craftspeople from all over came to sell. A big part of the junior class helped out with the fair, whether it was making lollipops, cooking for the fair or selling balloons. They even had a table at which holiday pins and ornaments were sold. Christine MacKay, the junior class advisor and Francine Black ran the fair. They each put in a lot of time and effort, and worked closely with class members. As usual, the Fair was a success, and everyone had a mess of fun, and spent a ton of money and all the other normal fair doings. 10 craft fair

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built into student life is the assumption that something is always new and something is always going on so tell me, what ' s happening The need to know what is going on and the assumption that something always is - these are the staples of adolescent society. To an outsider the school might have seemed a bewildering overlay of announcements, meetings, and activities. The same observer might think it impossible to keep trac k of it all. The real trick however, was to figure out how to get it all onto your schedule. Success is basically a balancing act- the ability to keep one or two major commitments and a half dozen minor ones all going at the same time. The whole enterprise is of course played out against the background of classes, homework, termpapers and tests. In high schools, once someone puts an activity into the social calendar it never seems to go away. We were nothing if not traditionalists. The Blood Drive, Senior Kick Off Dance, Craft Fair and of course Junior Varieties all had a life of their own. Then too there is the annual urge to do something different and so new events are added to the traditional calendar. Tuesday afternoon bowling and a College Bowl Team were among this years ' entries. From time to time this or that club undergoes a revival and becomes the focus of a lot of energy. LIT accepted women for the first time in its hundred plus year history. Plans were laid to ressurect the Oracle, a one time school literary quarterly. The list was endless. The problem was to sort out which brief but important meetings were truly important and for that matter, which really were going to be brief. Two an afternoon were manageable but only the most energetic could hope to handle more. student life 9

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I Juniors Gary Drevitch, Gary Christenson, Dan DiSano and Larry Gilligan sold raffle tickets to support their class treasury. GOMRLDEN After a fun and profitable afternoon, students and teachers helped clean up the cafeterias. Cookie Monster entertained the youngsters while their mothers shopped and browsed throughout the fair. craft fair 11