Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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Zo the Members of the Class of 1944 : It is always a difficult task for me to say goodbye to a senior class. To say goodbye to this class is no exception. For many reasons this class has a warm spot in my heart. I have watched the members of this class grow and grow. Today invariably the members of this class meet their obligations well. They have matured from young and carefree entering students to older young men and women with a purpose in life. What measure of success we have had in our school , this my first year as Head Master , is due in no small part to the wonderful support and co-operation of the members of this class. The school will miss you and I certainly shall. But that is the way of the world. You are going out into a world most chaotic. If I could give you one thought to take with you it would be this: “There is no short cut to success.” Good luck to you all and may God bless you. JOHN B. MATTHEWS d ni a s t e r 4

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The rolling script across these two pages, at once our theme and our class motto, first appeared early in our junior year, carved for all time on our new class s eal. Its translation, which has nothing at all to do with Hamlet, is “To be, rather than to seem to be.” None of us who will be present at graduation exercises has lived up to our motto so truly as the members of our class who are under arms. And yet, during our three years, we have been the better for trying. Being young, we have not kept this motto con¬ stantly before us as a blazing ideal, but we know now that it has meant more to us than we had realized. We believe that it is truly meaningful as a theme for our yearbook.