Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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R. THORNTON JENKINS, a devoted educator, served M.H.S. until 1943. sides being head of the Latin Department and head master for many Ears, Mr. Jenkins revised a Latin text book, which is used by students today. Mr. Thornton Jenkins, a man of many achievements, Jcceeded Mr. Lee in the year 1915. His period of office 'as one of congestion and extension. ln 1920, at the end f World War l, there was a marked increase in the high hool enrollment. Boys and girls who had been receiving to fourteen dollars a week in industry, lost their positions this time. Thus the school population grew, necessitating fternoon sessions. Because of the crowded conditions, dur- ng Mr. Jenkins' term of office, frequent thefts of clothing rompted him to install seven hundred lockers, one for very two pupils. Today, some of our more art-conscious irls are grateful for this innovation, as a locker has come J be the perfect gallery for their collection of Elvis Presley nd Tab Hunter photographs. The congestion in the high school reached a point 'here it could no longer be ignored. ln 1928, 552 new upils were enrolled, and the Centre Grammar School, :cated on Ferry Street become an annex for the high chool. Neither rain nor stormy weather prevented the ophomores from trudging back and forth across Ferry gtreet to attend classes. Mr. Farnsworth G. Marshall, the liperintendent of schools, insisted on the need for a new luilding, describing our high school as simply antiquated nd outclassed . THE MEMBERS OF THE CAST OF SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER , who belonged to the English Club in 1927, pause in costume to be photo- graphed after their most successful performance. - BACK AND FORTH A C R O S S F E R R Y STREET went the sophomores who, in 1939, attended class- es in the high school annex. This building is now being used as the annex to the City Hall. 17

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-as Wm THE TYPEWRITERS click busily in Miss Rut Tucker's class. Although these machines are a tc cry from the pink and silver streamlined portable ot today, they did serve their purpose in 1922 rm 2 X -1. . sail' English, Latin - even at one time, a mandolin club fo those romantic young swains who wished to serenade thel lady loves. In 1912, during Mr. Arthur Lee's principalship, th system ot semi-annual promotions was instituted. The fir: class of iunior high pupils entered the high school i January, 1912, and graduated three years later in January 1915. This system survived for twenty-two years, when was found that its disadvantages greatly outweighed it good points, and the system of yearly graduations wo revived. At this time, the Commercial Department was rapidl advancing and growing. An employment bureau was esta lished to help the students obtain positions after graduatio and to aid them in securing part-time iobs during high schoo The year 1916 seemed to have been one of literar STRIKES AND SPARES were familiar terms to the senior members of the Malden High School Bowling Team, who stand on the school steps in 1922. THE FIRST MALDEN HIGH SCHOOL RIFLE TEAM was formed in the year 1926. These boys, shown with Carl Pop Taylor, who is still our rit1e team coach, were the predecessors of the excellent riftemen of today. 16 initiative, tor the first school paper, The Blue and Gold came out in 1916, as a monthly publication eight tim in the school year. A later development was The Maldo ian , published by the graduating class of 1919. This wa a folder of several sheets with illustrations devoted to th doings of graduates. A-its BOYS' WEEK - MAY, 1926 saw these outstanding high school boys i city officials of Malden. Among them are George Lodgen, now a lawyi and School Committee member, and Charles O. Wettergreen, a Maldd High teacher.

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MALDEN HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL TEAM IN 1925 counted among its star players Eddie Melanson lcenterj who now coaches our M,H.S. football team. THE FRENCH CLUB in the year 1929, included among its almost twenty-five members, all fashionably attired in the costumes of the roaring 2O's , Elizabeth Smith, now Malden High's permanent substitute-Mrs. Hill, THE MEMBERS OF THE MACDOWELL CLUB, who wore their dresses modestly and fashionably lengthened, expressed themselves in song and brought listening pleasure to a great many people in the year 1937, as they do today. 18 MISS HARRIET M. PERKINS, Supervisor of Music in the Malden Pul: Schools between the years 1921 and 1947, was beloved by all her pup MAJOR CHESTER E. WHITING, director of the United States Army Fi Band, directed the M.H.S. band for many years before World War