Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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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

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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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WS. PlNAFORE , Gilbert and Sullivan's famous operetta was given by the senior class of l934 in the Gay Auditorium on April 5th and 6th, l934 to cked houses . Under the direction of Miss Harriet M. Perkins, a large cast worked hard and long to make the operetta such a tremendous success. VERY SUCCESSFUL MALDEN HlGH SCHOOL BAND lN l934-35, which was not much smaller than our band today, played under the capable direction fhester E. Whiting, and was accustomed to marching behind the twirling batons of its four drum maiors, instead of those of a corps of high-stepping arettes as today.