Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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38 THE- MALDONIAN 38 1938 jHalhontan .Stuff Editor-in-Chief : Walter Hittl Assistants Richard Fielding Irene Mrose Business Manager: Willard C. Hatch, Jr. Assistant: David Kinney Richard Mason Beatrice Berman Florence Conant Harold Fine Advertising Co-Managers Assistants Bernard Yellen Oscar Spear Ruth Glaser Ruth Simpkins Benjamin Weber Biography Editor: Audrey Dunton Assistant: Leah Appel Staff Helen Chapman Charlotte Friedman Frances Hayden Melvin Kaplan Walter Lipnosky Pearl Pizer Doris Werlin Howard Roy Mary Shadburne Beatrice Sugarman Clifford Swanson Myron Tate Myrtle Thomson Shirley Kelso Club Editor: Barbara West Assistant: John Morfitt Staff Lawrence Curran Feature Editor: Vera LeBerg Assistant: Robert Eddy Staff Elizabeth Mahoney Rae Weiner Candid Shots George Clemence Donald Marshall Literary Editor: Charles Dawson Assistant: Priscilla Damon Staff David Perlitz Jeannette Tufts Music Editor: Reva Lowry Assistant: Jeromina Colella Staff Grace Buckley Janet Anderson Faculty Editor: Robert Johnson A ssistants Marie Ouellette Frank Dubin Picture Co-Editors John Garrity Mary Fowler Sports Editor: Mary Harvey Assistant: Edward Sandler Staff Madeline Werlin George Levitsky Art Editor: Edward Whitaker Assistants Stella Frey Ruth Santer Jack Strasnick Proof Reader: Harold Edner Typing Editor: Sophia Blum Staff Rose Belzarine Adelaide Richmond Laura Blakeney Anna Swanstrom Grace Bund Helen Tasso Marjorie Harrison Sylvia Wiseman Ruth Landin Marcella Zalko Dorothy Mazonson Sylvia Zinman 38 NIN TErtrN-TMIKTY-ErlGHT 38

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38THEt MALDONIAN 38 38 NINLTHrN-THIRTY-LIGHT 38 THE MALDONIAN STAFF

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38 THE- M ALP ON I AN 38 An Open Letter to The Class of 1938 Farnsworth G. Marshall Superintendent of Schools A quarter of a century in the develop¬ ment of a school system changes its per¬ sonnel, its ideals, and its objectives. This is especially true of the 1913-1938 period. The World War, the prosperity of 1920- 1930, and the depression of 1932-1938 all have had an important influence on Amer¬ ican education, and have been deciding factors in the evolution of the Malden School System. The Malden High School of 1913, with 1065 pupils in four grades and with 39 teachers, has been replaced by the high school of 1938, with 1955 pupils in three grades and 70 teachers. Only six of the 39 teachers of 1913 are now in the school. The objective of 1913 was the education of the gifted few,—the objective of 1938, soon to be more fully realized in a new building and new courses of study, is suit¬ able education for all. Equal and efficient education for all the children of all the people has been the ob¬ jective of my administration. To list all the changes for the accom¬ plishment in the Malden School System for the past twenty-five years is impos¬ sible in this limited article, therefore I have selected ten changes which seem to me to be fundamentally connected with that period. They are the accomplishments, not of the Superintendent, but of the School Committee, the Principals, the Directors, and the Teachers, all cooperating for the good of the schools. The Superintendent has been but the agent who has tried to coordinate the efforts of all the separate parts into an efficient program for the schools of the city. 1. The elimination of the ninth element¬ ary grade, and the abolition of the semi-annual promotion system. 2. The construction and equipment of three new junior high schools and the beginning of the construction of a new senior high school, to be ready in 1940. 3. The establishment in one year, 1925, of the 6-3-3 plan of pupil organization, necessitating a complete rearrange¬ ment of buildings, pupils, teachers, and courses of study. 4. The extension of industrial arts, do¬ mestic arts, physical training, com¬ mercial education, and general science to include grades seven to twelve. 5. The construction of a new athletic field controlled by the Malden High School, and the development of teach¬ er-coaches in all athletic work. 6. The development, with the assistance of Dr. Clair E. Turner, of an extensive health program known nationally and internationally as the “Malden Health Program,” with a Director of Health, doctors, nurses, courses of study, various clinical contacts, and contin¬ uous experimental study in general health problems. 7. The development of a Department of Special Classes, a Department for the education of the physically handi¬ capped, a Department of Americani¬ zation for the foreign-born, — each with a director, well-qualified teach¬ ers, and excellent programs of work. 8. The organization of a Continuation School maintained from 1920-1932. 9. The encouragement of instrumental music in all grades, resulting in the maintenance of four uniformed, marching bands, and orchestras in the senior high, junior high, and many elementary schools. 10. The establishment and maintenance of definite school policies in regard to economy, authority, discipline, in¬ struction, and production under effi¬ cient and qualified Principals, Direc¬ tors and Teachers. 38 NINkTEEN-TUIBTY-UGHT 38