Melrose High School - Log Yearbook (Melrose, MA)

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Top Right: Chad Maguire ushers in the class of 1988 for their senior year. Above: Debbie Letch is happy to get started on her senior year. Middle Right: Heather Landry and Jennifer Col- lins prepare for another day of notetaking. Right: Patrick Palermo ' s and Kurt Mueller ' s smiles are already beginning to fade. He retraced the familiar route. He did so instinctively, having walked it every school day for the last ... was it five years already? It finally hit him. Using all of the math skills he had learned in twelve years past, he com- puted: six minus five equals . . . one! One year left! “This is the first day, he paraphrased quietly, “of the rest of my school life! ' ' His stomach did a flip and his heartrate doubled. A senior! He was a senior! Awed, he stopped and took a closer look at his surroundings. Every familiar detail seemed strange, bathed in a new light. His place in the universe was different now. He would only pass these scenes another— two times one hundred fifty schools days— three hundred or so times. The coming school year took on a new perspective. It would be his last, but it would be his best, the crowning achievement to his school career. No more would he be late to homeroom; he wouldn ' t miss another homework. Straight A ' s this year for sure! Squar- ing his shoulders, he resumed his walk to school, arriving only five minutes late to homeroom.

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A Minute With The Men In Charge he assistant prmci- pat—that tar away being that roams the halls to make sure that everything is in order, is not just the figurehead that ev- eryone thinks he is. Born in E verett, Mr. Frontero worked his way through the town ' s public school system. Graduating from Everett High School, he went on to Northeastern University. He was a teacher and an adjustment counselor at Ever- ett High, prior to coming to Melrose High. Mr. Frontero ' s mam ob at MHS is pro- gramming the schedules for the students and teachers, and computing the report cards. He is also the “administrative liaison ' ' for the head teachers and directors. He feels that the students should have ample time for schedul- ing and that once having decided on a sched- ule, a student should adhere to it. Mr. Fron- tero believes that this approach will prepare the students for later life when they must make commitments. He thinks of the class of 1988 as a very active and involved class; he regards the beginning of our senior year as one of the best in his years at Melrose High. very student at Melrose High School knows that our principal is Claude Cros- ton. but few of us know the man from the first floor office. Born in Haverhill, Mr. Croston attended Haverhill High and after graduat- ing went on to Wake Forest University, where he majored In the Social Sciences. Mr. Croston came to Melrose High as a psychology teacher in 1958, and he was, according to his colleagues, “a teacher’s teacher. He took over the position of principal at M.H.S the year before the move to the new building. From the start, he has given all of his energy to make Melrose High the best high school in the country. Mr Croston maintains a true open door policy, always trying to help his kids in any way he can. In his duties as our principal, he is responsible for the administration of the staff, the faculty, and the other administrators. He super- vises safety and security, and makes sure that we, his students, get the best possi- ble education. It is, to quote our principal, “a monumental task. ■o ' AV r. Hurley grew up in Malden but has since transplanted his roots to Melrose. He graduated from Boston Col- lege and received his Mas- ter ' s Degree from Boston University. He has four sons, three of whom attend Melrose Public Schools. Mr. Hurley has coached baseball, basketball, and Little League teams, and was once an Athletic Director. Mr. Hurley is known th rough t out M H S. as the disciplinarian; he has been an assistant principal for six years. Before that he worked as a guidance counselor and, in many ways, Mr Hurley still gives guidance to M.H.S. students. He also gives advice to Mr. Croston for the curriculum and overall opera- tions of Melrose High School. He’s for the students, not against them. He comes to the kids’ level. He says what’s on his mind. He’s very understanding, and he’s someone to look up to, to admire, and to go to with a problem. He’s tough on the outside, but he’s really sweetheart.” He’s cool. I love him. “For a management type he’s O K , I suppose. He’s swell. “He has a heart the size of a house. 4 When I think of him, I think, ‘Please report to the second floor office. ’

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It’s the end of your senior year. No more excuses, this is it. For the first time, you are truly allowed to do what you want. No one is there to nag you to do your homework. It’s up to you. In college, or so you ' ve heard, you pass or fail on your own credentials, not on how good your support network is. You have true responsibility for the first time, true accountability. Now you an- swer to yourself, not to your parents, not to your teachers. It is now that you find out if you, yourself, are equal to the task of life— the adventure, the learning that awaits! Now you will learn who it is that you truly are. You see the first glimmerings of what it is you actually want to be. You will begin to discover the depths and beauties of others and yourself. AH of this now lies on the horizon. Top Left: Patrice Ambrogne attempts to teleki- netically move the hour hand to two o ' clock. Top Center: Henry Collins casts a cynical look as his teacher announces a surprise quiz. Left Center: Erin Dwyer and Doug Gordon feign interest in 30, 60. and 90 degree triangles. Above: Lome Lucas sneers at the sight of a Celtics ' fan. Left: Rob Durant wakes from his reverie at the start of the D block announcements. THE ▲ END 1 OF THE BEGINNING...