Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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Standing: Mrs. Scannell, Miss Peasley, Mr. Schneider, Miss Gilman, Miss Young, Miss Ammann, Miss Pearl, Miss Wet more Seated: Miss Kirby, Miss Kistler, Mr. Bowman, Miss Heald, Miss Thorpe Not in picture: Miss Heller English Department English students helped with ad¬ ministration this year. Miss Thorpe or¬ ganized the first corps of library assistants, sophomore girls who work in free periods checking slips, filing, and helping with the general work of the library. College English students found in their courses this year a more detailed study of literature They use a sur¬ vey course covering English litera¬ ture from the Anglo-Saxon age to modern times. College, general and commercial students of all three classes found more time given to composition study in class. Some texts studied in class were changed from one year to another, and more super¬ vision was exercised generally over outside reading. I i 12

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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.

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Other departments have obtained attention and comment by some new change or expansion, but the Latin Department stands alone in its field—it made no inno¬ vation for none was necessary. Latin has remained as it is for centuries and doubtless will go on in the same fashion. It did not need to add a military vocabulary in trend with the times, for Caesar supplied one for every Latin student. Therefore, as genial Mr. Fred Nash, head of the depart¬ ment points out, Latin still is the basis of most modern languages, and still is giving students a stronger foundation for college or whatever they do after gradua¬ tion. However, the class of 1944 is grateful to Latin for our class motto and yearbook theme, “Esse quam videri.” Not every class has had a motto, and few such a classic one as ours, so we cite this as Latin’s best-known contribution this year. Latin Department M iss Cox, Mr. Fred .1. Nash, Miss Whittum