Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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CLASS BOOK OF I920A MALDEN HIGH Class Day Program Friday morning, January 30, 1920 CHORUS—“Hunting Song” SOLO—“Spring’s Awakening” Marian Elizabeth Decker CLASS HISTORY Joseph Raymond Batting DUET—“Trust Her Not” Miriam Hardy Natalie Helena Hodgdon L CLASS PROPHECY Cecilia E. Siden SEMI-CPIORL T S—“Gleam, Gleam, 0 Silver Stream” PRESENTATION OF CLASS GIFT Edwin Daniels Fowle ACCEPTANCE OF CLASS GIFT Headmaster Thornton Jenkins SOLO—“I Hear a Thrush” Madeline Hazel Stodder CHORUS—“Music of Spring” SCHOOL Brockivay ongfellow-Balf de Faye Cadman Jvanovici Page Nineteen

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JOSEPH RAYMOND BATTING On a certain Monday morning in February, 1916, a number of boys and girls, graduates of the various grammar schools of the city, assembled in this hall for the purpose of having explained to them the customs and usages of this school. Here, we received a great deal of good advice and instruction concerning the various institutions and organizations of the school from a gentleman who we soon learned was our headmaster, Mr. Jenkins. Soon after, we were assigned to our home rooms, which were, for the most part, on the third floor. During our first four weeks in school we all studied with a great deal of diligence, but I regret to say that in most cases, such diligence was, I fear, short¬ lived. We all agreed, however, that high school was preferable to grammar school, but that a freshman’s life was exceedingly monotonous. The baseball team that spring was a very good one, and naturally we, as freshmen, thought that much of the success was due to our lusty cheering. It was without regret, however, that we handed in our books and left for our summer vacation. Much to our joy, the opening of school in September was delayed a few weeks by an epidemic of infantile paralysis. Although still infants, none of us suffered from the malady. When we did return to school, the vacation was amply paid for by the long home lessons inflicted upon us. This semester our class was honored by having two of its members, Josiah Crawford and Edwin Fowle, on the Blue and Gold staff. The football team this year was a crack team, and we had the supreme joy of seeing Everett beaten by a score of 20 to 0. This fall, the school committee having decided that the physical standing of freshmen was very low, it became necessary for us to take physical training under the able supervision of Coach Dwyer. I might say here that many of Page Twenty