Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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A DAMAGING FIRE was discovered in the second floor boys ' room of the Old Building on Friday afternoon, February 19, 1960. Custodian Les Regan, who first smelled the smoke, sounded the fire alarm, and immediately the fire department rushed over to put out the blaze. Luckily, the fire occurred on the day before vacation, so that the work of the school was not hampered. No one was hurt, but damage was estimated at over two thousand dollars. THE 1960 TECH TOURNEY, held at the Boston Garden, was won by Malden High,s basketball team, the first ever to represent this school at the tourney. The M.H.S. hoopsters became the champs by defeating Somerville in the final, 65-61. Elliot Gventer is shown here dunking a shot against St. John ' s in the qualifying round. A SEVERE MARCH BLIZZARD struck Malden on Friday, March 4, 1960, and dumped a record 19.7 inches of snow with drifts up to twelve feet. Exerything, including M.H.S. classes, stopped on Friday and did not begin again until the following Monday, as Malden spent the entire week-end digging out from the heaviest snowfall in the city ' s history. 13

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THE BOSTON MURDER TRIAL OF WILLIAM VAN RIE, handsome Dutch radio operator, was one of the most exciting news events of 1960. Van Rie, accused of the murder of his shipboard lover, Lynn Kauffman, was acquitted after a long and hard trial. Here two M.H.S. girls read about the outcome. In our world of Malden High . . I960 Was An Inspiring And Exciting Year Nineteen-sixty is a year which we shall all remember, perhaps as the year we were seniors, or juniors, or sophomores. Girls ' tights. Paisley print shirts, and Ivy League suits are all part of 1960, as well as compact foreign cars and coffee-houses. 1960 is the year of Cape Canaveral ' s moon shots. President Eisenhower ' s trips abroad. Senator Ken¬ nedy ' s and Vice-President Nixon ' s campaigns, the Van Rie trial, the Agadir earthquake, and the suc¬ cess of The Sound of Music on Broadway. 1960 is the first year of Mayor Donnelly ' s administra¬ tion, the year Malden High won the Tech Tourney, the year of the fire in the old building, the year of the record-breaking 19.7 inch March blizzard which crippled Malden for three days. It has been an inspiring and exciting year, so now let us look at our world of M.H.S. in 1960. THE OLD CENTER SCOOL on Ferry Street was condemned this year and torn down. The Malden High senior art class was on hand to record the fall of this old Malden tradition, where many of our parents attended grammar school. 12

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Playing from wheelchairs . . In The Annual March of Dimes Benefit Game, OVER 560 M.H.S. STUDENTS left their studies and just-received report cards to attend the March of Dimes Benefit Game held in the Marshall Gym on January 27, at 8 P.M. In addition to the amusing game, the annual Girls-Boys Cheering Match was held. The girls, dressed in AMVETS uniforms, black tights, and bermudas, and headed by Commander Karen Anderson, rendered such cheers as The Little Soldier Boy, but were defeated by the ever popular boys in a close match. STINKY FINN shoots a free shot following an AMVET penalty. The faculty re¬ ceived several penaltiies for rushing out of their chairs to sink baskets! The AMVETS revenged this by giving the ' professors ' a ' rigged ' wheel chair which was meant to go only backwards. Tht guest team is experienced in wheel chair basketball playing, for they play many charity games as well as games with paraplegic teams. The referee at this game was John Carroll of Lincoln Junior High.