English High School - Blue and Blue / Record Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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in fHmortam “No work begun, shall ever pause for death” Robert Browning £H attbcm 3 1 . Sluggimi The English High School community was recently saddened by the death of one of its most dynamic teachers. Mr. Matthew J. Ruggiero. An outstanding mathematics teacher, he brought to his classroom an understanding of students which, sometimes is unique in a teacher. His rapport with many sophomore classes in his tenure at the Brighton Annex prepared many a student for the eventual success achieved in the upper class. A graduate of the English High School himself in 1945, Mr. Ruggiero received honor grades in history and Latin, and proved him- self an outstanding athlete excelling in track and on the football field. Appointed to the English High School Faculty in 1957, his continual influence on E.H.S. men is still his lasting tribute. Although taken from us in the prime of life, his high standards of scholarship and dedication remain with us as his legacy. His contribu- tion most assuredly was service to mankind through honor and achieve- ment.