Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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CLASS BOOK OF I920A . MALDEN HIGH SCHOOL V. Graduation Program Friday Evening, January 30, 1920 OVERTURE Grace Dean Orchestra Selected CHORUS—“Hunting Song” Brockway SALUTATORY—“The Great ' American” Frederic Fletcher Holmes DUET—“Trust Her Not” Miriam Hardy Natalie Helena Hodgdon SEMI-CHORUS—“Gleam, Gleam, 0 Silver Stream” ORATION—“War in Mexico and its Outcome” Jacob Philip Rudin VIOLIN SOLO—“Souvenir” Drdla Leona Berman ORCHESTRA Selected SOLO—“I Hear a Thrush” Cadman Madeline Hazel Stodder VALEDICTORY—“Progress of Woman Through Opportunity” Isabel Eleanor McNevin Lovgfello-w-BaJf de Faye PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS Mr. George H. Johnson Chairman of the School Committee CHORUS— “Music of Spring” Ivanovici Melville ' E. Chase, Musical Director Margaret Fores, Accompanist Percy Holmes, Accompanist for Miss Berman Elsie G. McPiiee, Accompanist for Semi-Chorus Page Nine

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CLASS BOOK OF 1920A . MALDEN HIGH CLASS OFFICERS Ml President, EDWIN DANIELS FOWLE Vice-President, JOSEPH RAYMOND BATTING Secretary, ELIZABETH GRIER Treasurer, ISABEL ELEANOR McNEVIN SCHOOL Page Eight

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SALUTATORY THE GREAT AMERICAN FREDERIC FLETCHER HOLMES God give us men! A time like this demands Stong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office will not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor, men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking; Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty, and in private thinking. For while the rabble with their thumb worn creeds, Their large profession and their little deeds, Mingle in selfish strife, lo! Freedom weeps, Wrong rules the land, and waiting Justice sleeps. This pcem, written in 1856, was never more appropriate than at the present day. We do, indeed, need men, men like Washington, like Lincoln, and above all like Theodore Roosevelt, one of the greatest Americans who has ever lived. And Roosevelt was a man such as this poem depicts. In Roosevelt’s own words life is “A battle royal—a battle for the man of clean hands and clean mind ; who can think straight and act square, the man who will stand for the right because it is right, who can say and mean it, that it is hard to fail but worse never to have tried to succeed.” When we picture Roosevelt, we see him in our mind’s eye perhaps only as the Rough Rider. Should we not think of him as the living embodiment of his own statement? Every act of the man was the expression of a strong, virile, mind and soul. Courage was his dominant characteristic. He clearly discerned what was the right and then stood for it because it was right. Fie was too downright to adopt men of expediency. Positive he was in thought, speech and action. When appointed President of the Police Commission of New York City, he found, on taking office, that New York was a den of wickedness. Vice was rampant. The police abetted crime and protected the vicious. Nothing daunted, Roosevelt proceeded to clean up the city. With characteristic energy and Page Ten