Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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in a high school everything is always new our world is open, informal nothing shows it more than the way Our world was one of freshness, openness, informality. In a high school, everything is always new. The group memory is never more than three or four years old at the most. Every year is a fresh start. Every season is a new shot at a state title. Every club year is a chance to meet new people. Every new teacher and every new course is a fresh chance to make up for the mistakes of other years with other teachers. we talk Yet, the mood of the larger society seemed strangely withdrawn. Ronald Reagan began his second term. Yuppies we were told, had elected him because they were better off than they had been four years before. In the Mid East and in central America old problems remained seemingly without resolution. The year was played out against a larger society that seemed tired and self centered. What ' s new , was a phrase we heard every day. It was a standard greeting. Often enough it had no meaning. We didn ' t necessarily look for an answer. When we did get an answer, no one was surprised. The phrase carried a built in assumption that something was indeed always new. The world we lived in, the world of high school, was always changing, always fresh, always becoming something else. Nothing captured that spirit more than the way we talked. What ' s happening , What ' s going on? , they were the words, the phrases we used to keep in touch with our time. The communication that held together the smaller and the larger society we lived in. And so there was about our time a discontinuity, a strange juxtaposition of our smaller and larger societies. The clash of the exhausted with the perennially new. theme 5

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Dennis Mauriello explains his complex life story to eager listener Michele Leary. 4 theme

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Lines were long waiting at the pay phone, students often had to make important calls during school hours.