Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

Page 13 text:

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.

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FACULTY One of the nicest things about being a senior is that by the last year in high school one has ceased to regard a teacher as a device set in motion for his especial annoyance. He has come to realize that a faculty member is a human being, with a sense of humor, a family, perhaps a weak¬ ness for detective fiction, and a self-conscious bald spot. Such a transition has been materially aided for us by a faculty who have always been ready to lend, a helping hand to a harassed club member, play producer, magazine seller, or yearbook writer, and who have planned and executed Guidance Day for a grateful student body. With fewer teachers and more subjects, preparation for Col¬ lege Boards and V-12 tests, Civil Service exams, and the frenzied social activities of the class, faculty members have done a memorable job in creating a life-as-usual atmosphere for seniors, and in rigidly maintaining the high scholastic standard for which, we hope, the school will always be known. What in other times would have been a three years ' preparation for college or a job, has become, under wise faculty guidance, a training- ground for our new and not-too-distant goal — WINNING THE WAR AND THE PEACE THAT FOLLOWS.