Melrose High School - Log Yearbook (Melrose, MA)

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Liver And Onions? Academics can be compared to a dinner of liver and onions. Some people ate it up while others couldn ' t seem to get it down. A person did not need to have a trained eye to pick out the ones who were gobbling their knowledge from those who were just playing with it The gobblers seemed to be hunched over their Shakespeare essays and quadratic formulas trying to digest as much as possible. Though their appe- tites and anxieties sometimes resulted in ulcers, the gobblers usually left high school full and satisfied. The players, on the other hand, would be seen reclining in comfortable chairs, closing their Hamlet notes and never getting around to solving for the value of “x.” They did not care for the main course. “I can ' t believe I ate the whole thing! moans Joe D ' Agostino. 400 pages to read by next period - Karen Stiles rises to the challenge. Does indigestion or malnutrition plague Susan Fusco? Richard Hildreth Coordinator Social Studies Joseph Hoague Director Physical Education Lawrence Leistinger Coordinator Science 8

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TEACHER (te char) n. - one who It is graduation day and we, the 557 members of the class of ’78 proudly hold our diplomas. They are symbols of twelve years of schooling and personal accomplishment. Yet, they really represent something more. They are testimonies to the efforts of many outstanding teachers. The teachers who pulled us through a rough subject with minimal pain and even some good laughs along the way; Earl Beshong Coordinator Occupational Education educates by instruction the teacher who stayed after school to give extra help or just to talk; the teacher who put something extra into education by advising an extracurricular activity - all influenced our learning years. Teachers could make us feel angry and frustrated. Or they could make us feel proud and excited. Teachers could get us upset. Or they could make us laugh. Teachers could challenge us. Joseph Cody Coordinator Art and example. But they also made us challenge our- selves. Teachers could confuse us. But mostly they helped us to understand: ourselves, our schoolwork, and our futures. With this knowledge and understand- ing, we prepare to face the world. We leave Melrose High School with grati- tude to the teachers who made our time here a worthwhile and enjoyable ex- perience. Phyllis Dragonas Coordinator Foreign Language 7

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Mike Shaw absorbs all he can. Gobblers and players - none are immune from the “term paper syndrome . Yes, we had many different tastes. The task of satisfying them all fell to the teachers. They had to devise a pleasing menu. Some of their main course offerings lead to classic prob- lems. There was the night before the English exam, trying to determine the difference between an adverbial clause and a dangling participle. Of course, the chef’s specialty was the term paper ordeal. When buried under 700 3x5 cards at 2:00 in the morning before the 20 page paper was due, indigestion often result- ed. These trials seemed like the ultimate endurance test, until we were served dessert! Stumbling into A Block Mod- ern Algebra II on a Monday morning, you were handed a surprise quiz and saw 7x2 + 4 xy - 3y + 83 = 9xy3 threatening your brain. Be honest, wouldn’t that look like liver and onions to you? Ruth Tender Gordon Wood Warren Wood Coordinator Mathmatics Coordinator Language Arts Director Music 9