Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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CLASS BOOK OF 1920A . MALDEN HIGH SCHOOL touch of regret at separating that we turn our faces toward the future. However, although we may no longer be working together as boys and girls in school, still may we as young men and young women of America work together for the progress of the race. cUpio-v h. 1 r -!sl . V I populav- :B vo Kef-ball ' Teo.w .. - . r 0 f PVt I.Ll-J. Ovr paVrtoFic, fellow- o fiden f ' Ar -. 1 . 0W Z yw den i Knew „ Dot ' 1 Knew . Page Seventeen

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CLASS BOOK OF I92 0A MALDEN HIGH SCHOOL public money for their education. The founding of her school at Troy, New York in 1819 was followed by the establishment of the schools of Mt. Holyoke and Vassar, and it is only within fifty years that women have had the same educational and professional opportunities as men. With so much gamed, woman turned her attention toward securing suffrage. Immediately as much opposition was raised as there had been to the demand for higher education for women. After a struggle school suffrage was granted to them by most states, and still later several states gave them complete suffrage. However, this was not enough, and the suffragists were striving for complete suffrage for all women with more or less success when the war, woman’s great Opportunity, came. The war found England and France, and later, America practically un¬ prepared. Something had to be done. Men were needed, thousands of them. They had to be taken from every profession, from every trade. Industrial ruin was prophecied, for there seemed to be no one to take their places. It was at this juncture, however, that women stepped in. They filled the factories, the stores, the offices. They entered all the professions and trades. They assumed civic duties. They enlisted for service in the hospitals at home and abroad. No task was too hard for them, no risk was too great. The world was astonished. Then came the end of the war and with it the question, “What will woman do?” The answer has come in the enfranchisement of the women of practically all the civilized nations of the world and more recently in the election of a woman to parliament. The world has been made to realize that “the woman’s cause is man’s,” and although the future is uncertain, if the woman of the future is as quick to grasp her opportunities and to make the best of them as the women of the past and of the present have been, then will come the golden age which Tennyson prophecied years ago, when there will be “everywhere Two heads in council, two beside the hearth, Two in the tangled business of the world, Two in the liberal offices of life, Two plummets dr opt for one to sound the abyss Of science, and the secrets of the mind.” Classmates, Tonight we meet together for the last time as students of the Malden High School. For four years we have recited, studied, and played together as carefree boys and girls and now we are ready to go forth into a new life—a life full of responsibilities and cares, a life for which our High School courses have been preparing us. Our four years together have meant much to us and it is with a Page Sixteen

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