Red Sox Foundation, Sox co-owner Steve Somers hit a home run with $10,000 award at Malden High Scholarship Night Another record night: Bar raised again as over 50 MHS Class of 2025 seniors receive record $129,000 in scholarships from 75 sponsors By Steve Freker S he may have made her mark these past four years in the classroom and on the volleyball court, but on this night, for a special Malden High senior, it was all about baseball — and another uncommon woman in MHS history. Helen Manning excelled in the classroom in the mid-1940s at the height of World War II, earning all As on her report card in a time when it was not expected and seldom acknowledged for young women. A 1946 Malden High School graduate who yearned to continue learning after high school years, Helen never had the opportunity — like so many other women before and after her time — to go on and matriculate in college. It was an unfulfilled longing that kept her devotion to education at full flame when she became a mother and embraced the task of raising her son, Steve Somers. “My mother made sure that I fully understood the value and importance of education and learning in my life from an early age,” Somers, a highly successful entrepreneur and philanthropist, told a receptive audience at the annual Senior Scholarship Night at Malden High School’s Jenkins Auditorium on May 27, “and my mother, Helen Manning, had this respect and love for education ingrained in her right here at Malden High School!” Somers would go on to award $10,000 in a single scholarship AWARD | SEE PAGE 8 SOMERS SCHOLARSHIP: The Somers Scholarship, which was presented by Boston Red Sox co-owner Steve Somers (second from left), was a $10,000 award given to Abigail Lee (third from left), who is shown with her parents, along with Malden Superintendent of Schools Dr. Timothy Sippel (at left), Malden High School Principal Chris Mastrangelo (right) and Red Sox Foundation Director of Development Kiana Swepson. (Courtesy/Malden Public Schools) Mystic Valley Regional Charter School Celebrates the Class of 2025 with 73 Graduates By Emily Brennan M ystic Valley Regional Charter School proudly celebratTHE GRADUATES: Pictured from left to right: Carl Damas, Dalton Kinnon and Chris Janvier. ed its graduating class during a heartfelt and well-attended commencement ceremony on Friday evening at the Eastern Avenue Gymnasium. The evening began with the national anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance, setting the tone for a celebration filled with pride, gratitude and reflection. This year’s 73 graduates will go on to attend 35 different institutions of higher education. Fifty-six students will remain in Massachusetts, enrolling at 26 colleges and universities across the Commonwealth. Nine students will attend eight institutions outside the state, and one graduate will study abroad, an impressive display of the class’s ambition and diversity of pursuits. Salutatorian Sydney Cao delivGRADUATES | SEE PAGE 5
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