Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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After Thirty-six Years of Service . . . Dr. Moore Climaxes Her Dr. Helene Moore, Director of Guidance in the Malden Public School System, has devoted thirty-six years to the education and guidance of Malden stu¬ dents. After receiving her B.A. degree from Radcliffe College, Dr. Moore came to Malden In 1926 from Brattleboro, Vermont, to teach Commercial subjects and English in the high school. At Boston University Dr. Moore attained her B.B.A., M.B.A., and Ed.D. degrees, and in 1942 she became the vocational adviser in the high school. In 1946 Miss M oore was promoted to the position of Director of Guidance in Malden. As Malden ' s guidance director. Dr. Moore holds weekly conferences with junior high school guidance teachers. Each fall, lessons in retail selling are offered to Malden High School students under Miss Moore ' s supervision. Dr. Moore also places many high school girls in part-time and full-time jobs. This year on November 2, under Dr. Moore ' s direction Malden High held its first College Night when college ad¬ missions officers and professors offered advice to stu¬ dents interested in furthering their education. As can be seen from the many students always in Miss Moore ' s office. Dr. Moore is Malden ' s proof of Shakespeare ' s words: Good Counsellors Lack No Clients. MISS HELENE MOORE PAULA BORISON introduces Dr. Wilfred S. Lake, Dean of College of Liberal Arts, Northeastern University, to the interested students in Room 113. 18

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THE MARSHALL GYMNASIUM hums six days a week from morning until night with the sounds of activities ranging from basketball gomes to track meets, and from weekly record hops to the senior prom. THE SMALL GYMNASIUM is the focal point for activities such as girls ' and boys ' basketball practice, and parties like the Language Clubs ' Christmas Party. 17 THE BASEMENT FLOOR —home of the anxious seniors — corridors filled with vo¬ ciferous, laughing students—formulas from the math classes — yells, shrieks from the gyms — and, in the late afternoon, a quiet, dark place filed with echoes of the sounds of young people who probe, analyze, and try to solve the deep problems of the world. The Domain of The Anxious Seniors . . . The Basement Floor Echoes with The Vibrant Sounds of Youth

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Career In Malden Schools With College Night PARTICIPANTS AND PLANNERS of College Night are Row 1: Rev. W. Seavey Joyce of Boston College, Dr. Francis Keppel of Harvard University, Miss Catherine D. Williston of Radcliffe College, Dr. Wilfred Lake of Northeastern University, Dr. Ashley S. Campbell of Tufts University, and School Committee Chairman Mrs. Marguerite Holland; Row 2: Leonard Mullen, School Committee; Mrs. Bertha Gordon, School Committee; Head Master John B. Matthews; Director of Guidance, Dr. Helene Moore; Malden High Guidance Heads Barbara R. Norton, Chester Santilli, Edna E. Turkington; and George Lodgen, School Committee. On November 2, 1960, Malden High School held its first College Night under the direction of Dr. Helene Moore and the Guidance Department. Pupils in the high school who were planning to attend col¬ lege, their parents, and the parents of college-bound students in grades eight and nine were invited. In the Jenkins Auditorium there was a general assembly with two keynote speakers, B. Alden Thresh¬ er of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Don¬ ald L. Oliver of Boston University. Five separate assemblies featured deans of admissions who offered advice concerning boys ' and girls ' Liberal Arts, Engi¬ neering and Technical Education, Education, and Business Administration degrees. Colleges represented in the five separate assemblies were Radcliffe Col¬ lege, Harvard University, Northeastern University, Boston College, and Tufts University. During the next hour individual conferences prevailed in which rep¬ resentatives of colleges answered specific questions of the students. Student Chairmen introduced speak¬ ers at the five main assemblies and the individual conferences. MR. MOODY of Colby College, Maine, describes his alma mater to future applicants. 19