Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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Sup rirzfmdenf of Sclzzfrfls DR. CHESTER W. HOLMES GREAT EXPECTATIONS In May of this year Malden celebrated the three-hundredth anniversary of its founding. Think what that means! Your city, from its settlement to the present, has seen our country grow from a wilderness to one of the leading powers in the world today. You Forty-Niners, like your city, began your educational careers with little but, like it, have come far. Your parents and the schools have done their best for you. See that you measure up to your responsibilities and their expectations! Of those to whom much has been given, much is expected. CHESTER WL HOLMES, Superintendent of Seihools Superintendent of Schools Dr. Chester W. Holmes U15 Sclzzwl Heard ' s i E i -..-a .. First Row: Mrs. Edwin Troland, Edward Bushell, Helen A. Davison. Second Row: Rev. Charles H, Monbleau, Thomas J. Kelleher, Bertram E. Green, Dr. Chester W. Holmes. The School Committee, under the lead- ership of Dr. Chester W. Holmes, has introduced the Rinehart system of pen- manship replacing the Palmer method. Miss Ida Dyke and Miss Virginia Bell have been appointed new head clerks with the retirement of Miss Helen Davison and the resignation of Mrs. Lilly Lyons and Mrs. Mary Rosdahl. A uniform dismissal date for Massachusetts high school seniors to be announced in April will affect the class of 1949. Following the plan of dis- tributive education the committee has voted for girls' vocational training. This year also, much has been done to perfect the guidance program. Improved apti- tude and preference tests have been given to an increasing number of students.

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Our Headmaster JOHN B. MATTHEWS Message To the Blembers of the Class of 1949: This year Nlalden is eelebrating its three-hundredth anniversary. This is not old when measured by the story of civilization, yet old in the story of our own land. Those who have gone before us in Xlalden have left us a rieh heritage and this is partieularly true of our own high school legacy. It seems to me, there- fore, that this would be an opportune time for the members of this elass to stop for a moment and reflect on those legacies. Wlhat you do with them is im- portant, and that you make the most of your gifts is a neeessity. W'hat is still more important. it seems to me, is that you pass on to those who Come after you a better City and a better sehool. This you ean do only by giving your best to the task at hand. You would do well to remember that there is no substitute for hard work . That is what we have tried to teaeh you here at school and I hope with some degree of sueeess. Take this philosophy with you as you leave this sehool and put it into operation. Keep always in mind your inheritanee and resolve to leave your City and your sehool a better plaee for your having lived there. Mcmst sincerely, JOHN B. MATTHEWS