Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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Jffrnm (firm) In (bm ' tlir F. Champlin Webster, Jr. Colleges: Dartmouth College A.B., Boston University M. Ed. Subjects: Latin IV (Virgil) Extra Curricula Work: Faculty Manager of Athletics, Junior Class Master, Master in Charge of Tardiness. Hobbies: Household repairs, read¬ ing, airplane and automobile iden¬ tification. United States Army Air Force Reserve. A large number of students enjoy at least one of the languages offered at M.H.S., either Latin, French, or German. Latin still holds a prominent place in the high school program. Our school emphasizes the great value of Latin to the students, especially those who are pre¬ paring for college. This year the Latina Hon¬ oris Societas sponsored the twentieth annual Auxilium Latinum examinations for the fourth year in succession at Malden High School. French is taken by a great number of stu¬ dents, while there are only five German classes. Le Cercle Francais and Der Deutsche Ehren- Marian M. Gillis Colleges: Radcliffe College A.B. Subject: Latin. Extra Curricula Work: Latin Honor Society. Hobbies: Reading. James E. Reid Colleges: Bates College A.B. Tufts College A.M. Subjects: Latin. Extra Curricula Work: Assistant Adviser Class of 1953, Football. Hobbies: Sports. Otto Ashermann Colleges: University of Vienna, Ph.D., University of Berlin, M.A. Subjects: French, German. Extra Curricula Work: Adviser to Green¬ room Dramatic Society. Hobbies: Trying to find time to read a book. Frances M. Galligan Colleges: Boston University College of Liberal Arts A.B. Grad¬ uate School, A.M. Subjects: German. Extra Curricula Work: Adviser to “Der Deutsche Ehren- verein”. Class of 1954 Adviser. Hobbies: Figure Skating. Barbara R. Holden Colleges: Colby College A.B. Middlebury College M.A. Sub¬ jects: French. Extra Curricula Work Head: Adviser—Class of 1952. Hobbies: Reading. Louis H. Melanson Colleges: Boston College B.A., M.A. Subjects: French Extra Curricula Work: Le Cercle Fran¬ cais. Hobbies: Music, Photogra¬ phy. [26 1

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Ai i a nilmtut - thru aubtrart Carrie M. Darling Colleges: Chandler Shorthand Normal. Subjects: Head Steno¬ graphy and typewriting depart- mets. Stenography and typewrit¬ ing. Extra Curricula Work: Ad¬ viser Sophomore Class. Hobbies: Traveling. Marjorie L. Mooney Colleges: Simmons College B.S. Subjects: Bookkeeping and Ac¬ counting. Extra Curricula Work: Financial Adviser Class of 1953. The Commercial department offers a well rounded group of courses including stenogra¬ phy, typing, shorthand, office practice, book¬ keeping, accounting, law and economics, com¬ mercial geography. Future secretaries have had the use of seven new electric typewriters for five weeks, five Remingtons and two I.B.Ms. The First National Bank has presented the Bookkeeping department with a bookkeeping machine this year. This year the classes are using a new book called the “Gregg Simplified”, which is a sig¬ nificant name. The students also have the use of a magazine rack with the latest pamphlets on government rules and economic importance. Some study the pages on the stock market in¬ vestments and present changes in the rulings on income taxes. Next year these boys and girls will enjoy a new simplified book of bookkeeping and accounting called “Twentieth Century.” Jean Keats shows Edward Fays the effect of mountains upon climate while Mrs. Pierce and the rest of the class look on. Miss O’Brien supervises the members of her first period class in their transcribing. They are left to right: Rose White, Nancy Blunt, Barbara DeMille, Eileen Cahill, Fern Casletto, Marie Allfrey, Charlene Benson. [ 25 ]

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to lean Hainan verein stimulate interest and also marks, for admission is granted only to those with at least two consecutive B’s on their report cards. In addition to the daily routine of translation and grammar work, French students enjoyed the picture of Modern France taken by Mr. and Mrs. Melanson last summer on their trip to France. All German classes study grammar and work on translation. The book German by Rehder and Twaddle is most enjoyable to the third year students who like conversational work. In addition, some German pupils cor¬ respond with pen pals in Germany. Ruth A. McKenney Colleges: Smith College M.A. Middlebury French Summer School Summer Session Alliance, Francaise-Paris. Subjects: French, Head of Modern Languages in Malden Schools. Parker Lewis points out Ancient Rome to Winifred Greenquist and the rest of his classmates in Mrs. Gillis’s first period sophomore Latin class. Wilson Moeckel, Robert Hall and Jer¬ ome Westerman portray a scene from “La Pondre aux Yeux” in Miss Holden’s senior French class. [ 27 ]