Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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THE NEW TECH SCHEDULE It was the dawn of a new age at the Tech. There was a new schedule for everyone. It was the beginning of the A-B schedule, a week of academic classes followed by a week either in the shops or out on the job for some related business. That was quite the adjustment. There was the assembly in V444. Every year we met in that same room and got the same speech from Mr. Mazzarella. 'You must accumulate 100 points to graduate. You need to pass four years of English, two years of math, a year of science and U.S. History.' It was the same speech that we heard for the last three years, but this would be the last time! Then we were told that the academic teachers in the High School would be teaching in the Tech. Some of us would never cross the bridge to the High School for a class during our senior year. Only students in college preparation classes would have to report to the High School. It was a new experience for us to have the academics in the Tech and it was probably even more of an experience for the teachers who had to come into the Tech for the first time. Being seniors and supposedly knowing everything, many of us were lucky enough to be tested before the first week was over. Ask the seniors in Electronics how it felt to get that exam on all the easy stuff that they were supposed to have learned in their first three years. This year was going to be different. It was our senior year. We were going to get out when June rolled around! 1. Sonya Gruchy and Paul Rosemond check with Assistant Director Marie Hurley about the new schedule. 2. Kim Gilligan, Dave Brolin and Sher Brunstrom are crazy to be back 1 Kim Ellis. J«: Witham and Joe Higgins, Health Assistants 4. Kim Gilligan and Shawn Myatt at the presses. 5 Michele Alexander is in the auto shop. 6. Rick Sloane is aided by Mr. Robert Dougherty in Metals. 7. |im Regan the lead pot. 8 Tracey Timco, Mary Ann Coll»- Shelly Hagerty, Carla Calligan and Dawn Losse »■ 1 Three Seasons. tlory by tuff, photo by Paul Rowmofxt. Kim Cilligai

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SENIOR YEAR BEGINS The beginning of our senior year had to have been the most hectic of all the years we've spent in High School. It seemed in every class there were the same old forms to fill out, regardless of our senior status. Following with his tradition, Mr. Basiliere called us down to the cramped QHS gym for the ever popular Tardiness and Atten- dance speech, which the class greeted with an unrelenting yawn. We didn't really believe that the School Committee would enforce the new rule that 'Seven unex- cused absences meant failing every course.' The more interesting part of the assembly was the enthusiastic words spoken by our spirited president, Michele Palardy, concerning the events of the up- coming year, but the high point of the en- tire assembly was that we were diverted from our first period obligations. For some of us that meant missing our favorite class, but for others it was time away from dread- ed physics or whatever. However you remember, the assembly, it was nothing compared to the aggravations we had in our classes. Many of us found ourselves scheduled into the wrong class or worse yet into a class with none of our friends. That meant we had to trek down to our counselor and try to get them to maneuver us to the period with our best friend without letting them know that the change was for that sole purpose. Then there were the classes where we found ourselves bogged down in great amounts of work starting on the first day in class. Who wanted that during our 1. Julie Coste and Lisa Forde seem happy to be back in the QMC. 2. Carol Goguen hangs around after school. 3. I can't believe I’m really here ' thinks Marcy DiStefano, looking at her physics assignment. 4 Lynn Crossman pays close attention to her teacher. 5. Oh God, get me out of here pleads Tracey An- shesvitz' eyes. 6. John Layman is contemplating whether Jay Lespasio is as intelligent as he looks in his unique haircut. senior year? We had to get out of those classes. Within a few weeks the announcement came over the P.A., 'There would be no more changes of student schedules.' I guess we had tried to change just one too many classes. Actually, there were so r iny courses which only had one section that conflicts existed in huge numbers. There were sections with less than ten students and other sections with wall-to-wall students. In the end it didn't make any real dif- ference. We still got text after text. The teachers gave us piles of homework start- ing on the first day. We filled out all the forms. We were the seniors and all this was 12 Mory by Sheila O'Connor and Donna Pottcnjpll. phococ by Tracy Cullen, Tracey Anvhew and tlaH.

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1. Amy Nourse, Laurie Woodford and Kathy Cahill make up a mean color combination while eating lunch in the cafeteria. If only Laurie's face weren’t the same color as the food on our trays!! Everything was happening on Halloween day. Students brave enough to suffer the wise-cracks wore costumes to class. This made them eligible for a prize to be awarded at the close of school. Some of the faculty participated in the event as well as the students. Students were asked to assemble in the Quincy Method Center for the final judging. Unfortunately, a number of the students did not appear. The judge had chosen one or two costumes in advance and was disappointed that those students did not attend. Not only that, no teacher found the nerve to show up. Even with the lack of teacher participation, Mr. John Scanlan was judged the best. There were some really great costumes, but unfortunately there were only four prizes to be given. Pam Mantia stood out with her orange and black tiger leotards. Michele Spillane was an Elvira look alike. Kathy Parrish, Pam Jonah, in QHS and Kim Pratt in the Voc-Tech were M M candies. Kerry Eden was a sea goddess that everyone thought was a mermaid. Amy Nourse was a strawberry and Michele Palardy was an olive. Paul Rosemond was a werewolf while Chris Murphy and Carl Johnson were the Blues Brothers. Runners-up in the contest were Janice Murray as Jock-O the clown and Lauren Standring, (Karin Eaton, and Maura Gar- rity as Siamese triplets. Placing second was Kristen O'Brien as a pregnant nun. The big winner was Ron DiBona. He dressed as a member of the Colorguard and was mistaken as a young lady by many members of the faculty. We wondered what happened each time he had to use the men's room, «dj bcg 6. The triplets Lauren Standring, Karin Eaton, and Maura Carrity trying out for The Chorus Line. HALLO 2. John Bogan seems to be robbing the cradle of Karen Boussy, dressed in her nightie with a lollipop and teddy bear, right in the corridors of QHS. Naughty! Naughty, John! 3. Pam Jonah and Kathy Parrish in the QMC. 4. Policeman Tricia Flaherty had to escort tigress Pam Mantia to the cafeteria to help fend off all the adoring males members of the stu- dent body. 5. Could Chris Noble actually be the QHS Football team's mascot? 14 ftO y by stall photos by Uuren Standing an J Karl Johnson