Lincoln High School - Lincolnian Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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M R. MALON E

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in Gillis Qllngers Friend Rogers, so you are going to leave us and the Tacoma schools for which you have toiled so faithfully- lo! these many years. We, the faculty and student body of Lincoln High, take this opportunity to thank you for the splendid example of character that you have set before us from day to day. Some of us on the inside know, friend Rogers, that the smile on your face at times was only a mask: that beneath that smile was deep sorrow that only time 'can erase: we know that your great big heart was al- most bursting at times in grief over your boy that gave his life for his country and is lying under the poppies in France. When your other boy was stricken with a strange malady we knew that your crown of thoms was too great to bear: yet your smile, friend Rogers, was always there and your courtesy and kindness never faltered. Through it all you were the same splendid type of man that we all leamed to love. Your hand clasp was that of a real man, hearty, and like a grasp of steel,' and your friendly slap on the back was a caress that made one proud to receive. From now on each glance that any of us may make toward the famous statue of the man from whom our school received its name, will make us see and feel that it represents two men, the immortal Lin- coln, and you. Your makeup in many ways is like that of the great emancipator. honest, tbig, kindly, and with the courage of your convictions. Your loss is not only a loss to Lincoln, but to Tacoma as well. The world needs men like you, friend Rogersg men that have not an ounce of sham or hypocricy in their veins, and who can trample over sorrows and difficulties with their head high. We all bid you Cod speed in your new venture, and from now on whenever we hearuthe old familiar words of- i'The man worth while is the man that can smile When the whole darn world goes wrong - when we hear those words, friend Rogers, we will always think of you. Ci-ms. A. MCC-EE.

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lilimrr. 3. gillizrlnne Mr. Malone began his high school work in Tacoma in 1893. Only one teacher now doing high school work in Tacoma, antedates Mr. Malone. When he began his high school labors here, the school was located in the 'Bryant building. He served Jive years in that building, and then eight years more in the old Tacoma High, on Tacoma Avenue, where the present Central School stands. In 1906 the school took up its quarters in the Stadium High. Mr. Malone was there for eight years. In 1914 he was trans- ferred to the new Lincoln High. He has now finished seven years of service in Lincoln. Ever since taking up his school work in Tacoma, he has been known as a very thorough, conscientious teacher, one thoroughly conversant with his subject. He has always been a student, and has spent much time in independent in- vestigation. He was one of 'the first in Tacoma to be in- terested in the X-ray. He assisted in making one of the first X-ray machines in Tacoma, and many people in Ta- coma became acquainted with the X-ray through the machine he exhibited twenty-five years ago. ' Many students think of Mr.VMalone only as a physics teacher. It may be news to some to know that his prefer- ence has always been for mathematics, having done post- graduate work in that line in johns Hopkins. Mr. Malone was head of mathematics in the High School from 1903 to 1914, although most of his work was in physics. He has been head of the Science Department in Lincoln for the last seven years. He retires from active school work after giving to the high schools of Tacoma twenty-eight years of good honest service. W. C. ORR.