Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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f. History Teacher Arvid Swanson makes his way across the parking lot at the start of another day. 2 . students and teachers making their way into the building. 3 . Francine Black with morning coffee. 4 . The unpleasant task of keeping order in an overcrowded parking lot falls to math teacher Fredrick Feldman. 5. The morning canteen trucks provide some the last minute breakfast. 6 . main office secretary Diane Kerr. 7. Junior Administrative Assistant Arleen Goldstein and Susan Harkins Admit iate students. 8 . Late risers in the daily rush. 9 . By eight o ' clock the action is in the Assistant Principal ' s offices. 10 . For custodians the start of school is the signal to begin the daily outdoor clean up after the morning rush. 4 on day

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».-r- a special day a special life of. . . The weather was cold, the temperature in the 40 ' s, and the morning overcast. It was a typical early December day, At five a.m. a custodian was the first to park in the Holden Street lot. It was still dark. The sun would not rise for another hour, when that custodian began the business of opening the school. At six he would be at the loading dock to receive the day ' s shipment of milk for lunches. By six- thirty the tempo would increase. The Kitchen crew would all be working. The first of the teachers would have arrived. It would be another hour before the 1800-plus people that make up the school population would be In place. In the scheme of the school year, Thursday December 3, 1987 was not particularly special. Like the weather the day was typical, unusual only because five photographers took almost 3000 photos to record that one day in the life of Malden High. A big city high school is an institution of almost incredible diversity, so much so that no one could know it all. Most of us have never seen large parts of the buildings. Most of us moved through our days meeting only a few of the people who made up that complex world. On any typical day people in these buildings had to be fed, warmed, washed, coached, directed, ventilated, nursed, kept safe, as well as taught. It ' s alive, this place, from before dawn till the last basketball falls silent in the gym only a few hours removed from yet anotherday. In these pages we hope to have captured one day in the life of the school. one doy 3

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