Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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0 , I Q 4 'P' OPENING DAY AT M.H.S,l All dressed up in their new fall clothes, students stream into M.H,S. on September 4 ta begin a new and important school year. ..I' x V, ,AJ .wa-Q -anni- PUSH, BUT DON'T SHOVE! These girls rush to get on the bus after waiting patiently in the cold. However, Mr. Webster wouldn't accept this as a tardy excuse. W.. g MAN'S BEST FRIEND! This boy is being kept company by his dog as he tries hitch a ride to school after having waited for the bus longer than usual. w Q 1. 1

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With heartfelt gratitude We Dedicate This Book To You Mr. Edward J. Melanson To you, Edward Joseph Melanson - able coach, teacher, adviser and friend - to you we dedicate this book, May it serve as a tangible symbol of the admiration which we of Malden High hold for you. On this, your fifteenth anniversary on the M.H.S. faculty, we look back to the years 1921-25, when the football team boasted of its star fullback Eddie Melanson, whose great punting spelled his football fame. On the diamond, as versatile second baseman and co-cap- tain, you showed the athletic ability which won even greater praise at college. Graduating from Malden High in 1925, you went on to keep your pigskin. popularity at Villanova University. When Coach Warren R. McGuirk left the faculty to enter the service, M.H.S. welcomed you back, Mr. Melanson, as coach of the football team for which you had played seventeen years before. For fifteen years you have been head coach of the Golden Tornado - working with your boys - sharing in their triumphs and defeats. ln 1958, the coveted G.B.I. title was recovered after three years, and as always you shared with the entire school the feeling of pride that accompanies victory. The football players are not the only ones who have come to know and admire you. Every boy at M.H.S. who takes Physical Education has gained from your wisdom and guidance. Some wise guys remember the agony of count- less pushups in your famous S period gym. Many a lesson of fair play and team-work is learned in your gym classes along with the rules of basketball and hand polo. Acting as adviser to the class of 1960 rounds out your 1958 faculty activities. The sophomores look with pride on their first dance, Crystal Capers , its success greatly due to your sympathetic and efficient help. The father of four, you are known in your Melrose neighborhood as a do-it-yourself home handyman. During the summer months our M.D.C. pools and beaches are safer and better conducted because of your work as assistant manager. Because, for fifteen years, you have won the respect of students and faculty, as a dedicated teacher and coach . . . Because your contagious, sincere good nature has spread its warm influence over all who know you . . . We dedicate this 1958 Maldonian to you. A 4 ? 7. T: X Our coach - - - Our adviser . . .

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i iiiii JL'-5 'tv- ?Is r. .Qi 1 4 l8O different times . . Our School Day Begins Weary eyes slowly open to view a new day filled with work and pleasure, work and fun. These same bleary eyes suddenly fly open at the clanging alarm that seems to say, Wake up, you'll be late for school! While we try desperately to remember chemistry formulas or the Declaration of Independence in a rather foggy mind, we abstractedly choose our outfits from ivy-league wardrobes. Dashing through hearty breakfasts, we fly out the front door, nearly injuring the milkman, and break the 4-minute mile record to catch the bus, iam-packed with other students who make the journey in quest of knowledge . By this time we are awake enough to check algebra problems tif we've done themj. Before we know it, we've reached school and have begun another school day. -W., Ask, W 4. 1. s get .MQW 7 ' were f 5 f WHEN, IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS,- During test week especially, many students drag themselves out of bed on hour or so earlier in the morning to do some last-minute studying. OHH, MY ACHIN' HAND! At the beginning of each school year, every student is required to fill out five identical schedule cards for the office records.