THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, June 5, 2026 Page 9 SENIOR | FROM PAGE 1 ed by a large throng of family, friends and other well-wishers at the popular "Red Carpet" event. There they walk down the steps to the courtyard after being dropped off on Salem Street, to the cheers and screams of delight from the large group of welcomers. When all the promgoers had arrived, they boarded coach buses to whisk them right to the New England Aquarium where a full function hall in a unique venue awaited. There they were treated to a full course dinner, followed by the main event, dancing and celebration in one of the most memorable evenings of their high school lives. All promgoers then were transported back to Malden High from Boston at the end of the evening's festivities where they were picked up by caregivers. "It was a night they will never forget, that is how it is supposed to be for our students," Class Advisor Wentworth said, noting that all of the Class of 2026 fundraising for four years culminates in the Senior Prom, making it affordable to all. "The smiles and laughter from the students make the night so special," said MHS Principal Mastrangelo, "It was truly a night to remember." APPRECIATION | FROM PAGE 1 what questions? How about... ALL of them. To list it all would take up most of the rest of this informal treatise on a true Malden icon and son of Edgeworth. Want to know about Malden history? Just ask Dom. More specifically, Malden political history? Just ask Dom. He lived it. He was the pillar in a family of politicians, though he would have most likely been loath to refer to himself as “a politician.” That is true even though he did indeed serve valuable years as an elected official representing Malden residents with pride, passion and vigor for key stretches of years in our city’s past. How many would-be political hopefuls in Malden probably either sought Dom Fermano’s adFrom left, Vitor, Rafaella, Matheus, Joao, Melissa and Lyncolln enjoying the Senior Prom at the Aquarium. (Courtesy Photo/The Maldonian/ MHS Yearbook) BIg NIGHT — From left, enjoying the evening are Yeshi Dorjee, Randy Nguyen, Evan Ruan, Matt Lee and Nick Li. (Courtesy Photo/The Maldonian/MHS Yearbook) ON THE DANCE FLOOR — Jacob Fuentes, in front and friends Johnny Mei, Joseph Hatch, Michelle and Ronald have fun on the dance floor. (Courtesy Photo/The Maldonian/MHS Yearbook) From the MMS Prom... to the Ivy League! She's going to Princeton; he's going to Harvard. Toasting with punch at the Malden High Senior Prom are, at left, Jada Nguyen and right, Thomas Conti. Both members of the MHS Senior Class of 2026 are Ivy League-bound, with Jada attending Princeton University this fall and Thomas headed to Harvard. (Courtesy Photo/ The Maldonian/MHS Yearbook) Jazhierra and Jeffrey on the dance floor at the Aquarium. (Courtesy Photo/The Maldonian/MHS Yearbook) vice, counsel or even his blessing to launch a fledgling campaign for most any public office here. It would be a perfectly safe bet to say this: most. Just ask Dom. Most who knew what they were doing or even thought they knew the same would seek him out. Why not? Dom had all the answers, everyone in Malden knew that. He would probably have allowed himself to be referred to as a public servant. Dom Fermano did that, too. As the longtime Malden City Controller, Dom worked into his 70s and beyond monitoring the city’s finances. It was an easy and valuable transition to voting on city issues as a former local elected official to being employed in the inner workings of the city’s financial engine. Had a question on municipal money, how it comes in, is spent or how it is kept and safeguarded? Just ask Dom, for any of that... for all of that. Dom knew and Dom would share that information, for the good of the community and for the greater good, period. Need a primer on local sports history, Malden High sports lore? Yup. Ask Dom. He knew details, names and results, statistics, scores and highlights: from the proverbial “way back” into the 1940s when he was “coming up” through the late 1950s when he was arguably the best athlete of the bunch for the Golden Tornados of Malden High. In this decade of the 2020s, remarkably, Dom was into his 8th decade of interest in Malden High sports teams and players. Though he may not have gotten out to as many games as he wished in recent years, it was not long ago when he was a regular at the annual “Burning of the Cleat” ceremonies at Macdonald Stadium, where a player or coach from the past addresses that year’s Malden High football team on the expectations and vagaries of the annual Malden-Medford Thanksgiving Day game. I remember in one or the recent years’ stories I published in this newspaper about a Malden win over Medford — it was in 2019, I believe. I was actually the coach of the Golden Tornado team at the time and we were defending turf against a rallying Medford team, but more than holding our own. For some reason I looked just past the end zone, and there I saw Dom Fermano, the two-time Greater Boston League championship-winning star of back-to-back Turkey Day wins in 1957 and 1958, shifting his feet and bobbing almost like a boxer circling his prey as the Malden defense repelled the Mustang offender. If he had been a little closer and in earshot, I would have considered doing what everyone else in Malden has done for the past 50-60 years when Dom Fermano’s light has been on “in his office” — “What do you think, Dom? Got any suggestions here?” Blessings to Dom’s family and closest friends, of whom he had multitudes. But the loss— for all of us— is simply epic. No more questions will be fielded by one of the most knowledgeable and wisest gentlemen to ever grace our community. We will have no more answers, ever. All that remains with Dom Fermano’s passing are the memories. For that, we are grateful. Rest in peace, Dom. You will never be replaced, nor forgotten.
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