Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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Richard Evelyn Byrd is a name known throughout this country as the perfect symbol of the current Amer¬ ican ideal. Wide fame is his for his many achievements, and great have been his contributions to aeronautical science. He has been feted here and abroad, and has been rewarded by his own government with the post of Rear Admiral in the navy. As a lecturer he is fluent, graceful, and interesting, and, hence, grea tly admired. Such honors and such a position in the public esteem cannot but be deserved, since the public fosters no im¬ posters for long. His career of air exploration is un¬ paralleled in the annals of the world; he has flown over both the North and South Poles and edged in also a non-stop trans-atlantic flight. For these exploits he has been rewarded with the Hubbard Gold Medal and nuyn- erous special medals struck by the National Geographic Society. At present he is engaged in preparations for another Antarctic expedition. All these, taken as a whole or examined in their peculiar circumstances, give evi¬ dence as to his progressiveness, bravery, skill, and in¬ telligence which he has all out of proportion to most of his fellow-mortals. The Class of 1936 realizes that its praise or blame will affect but little his career,—that is not the purpose of dedicating the yearbook to him and his work. The real purpose is to bring more closely to the mind and heart of each graduate the personification of the Amer¬ ican id.eal and to encourage each graduate in the emu¬ lation of Richard Byrd’s outstanding qualities of mind and spirit.

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Back Row: A. Dowd, C. Crooker, J. Harris, M. Sharpe, R. Osgood, A. Marr, R. Newton, D. Cohen, Middle Row: L. Barnett, T. Corrigan, E. Baum, C. Foxall, S. Goodman, A. Ruderman, L. VanBuskirk, P. LaFreniere, T. Wischhusen. Front Row: L. Chamberlain, E. Harlow, M. Lilly, E. Martin, I. Pass, M. Turner, E. Worthen, L. Thompson.