Page 12 THE MALDEN ADVOCATE–Friday, November 7, 2025 ~ Excellence in the Malden Public Schools ~ Malden High National Honor Society selects 28 new members as school’s top scholars MHS John W. Hutchins Chapter of NHS was the very first established high school branch in Massachusetts By Steve Freker I t has long been recognized that Malden High School — historically — has been a trendsetter. This has been the case not only regionally and statewide, but also on a national basis on a number of fronts. One of Malden High’s crowning moments came over 100 years ago, in 1921, when it emerged as a charter member of what has become one of most prestigious co-curricular academic organizations in American history, the National Honor Society (NHS). Malden High School established its local branch, the John W. Hutchins Chapter, that very year, making it the first high school in Massachusetts to become part of an academic icon that would eventually sweep the nation. The National Honor Society, now a beacon on the landscape of American secondary education, boasts over one million members and over 15,000 chapters. The National Honor Society has chapters in all 50 states, the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.), all U.S. territories and NHS charter, when it initiated the John W. Hutchins Chapter at Malden High School. By 1922, Massachusetts had added 14 new NHS Chapters. Each year since, Malden High possessions (including Puerto Rico, Guam and U.S. Virgin Islands) and in American schools in more than 40 foreign countries. The first attempt to form a national high school academic honors organization was initiated at the 1919 annual convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals in Chicago. The first chapter of the new society was chartered in 1921 at the Fifth Avenue High School in Pittsburgh, Pa., the school at which Edward Rynearson, considered the father and founder of NHS, was principal. Malden is the first Massachusetts high school to obtain an School’s National Honor Society has selected new members, often the selections being made after requesting recommendations from MHS educators and other staff after worthy students whose academic grades met the established criteria were nominated. Formal inductions then follow months later: around graduation time in late May. The minimum Grade Point Average is 3.8, and in the application process students are expected to demonstrate experience in the following qualities: the pillars of scholarship, leadership, service and character. For the remainder of this school year, the new NHS selectees will be required to participate in both NHS group and individual community and civic service projects, some assigned and others planned individually. Typical service projects include tutoring programs for underclassmen, reading development for elementary students, fundraising for local or national charities, blood drives, serving meals at local food banks and servicing the needs of the elderly in the community. In addition, selectees are required to maintain the high level of academic performance that earned them acceptance, in addition to continuing to exhibit high character as school citizens. “We are extremely proud of our new National Honor Society selectees and we thank NHS advisor Paul Marques for his continued service in guiding our top academic association at Malden High School,” MHS Principal Chris Mastrangelo said. “He [Marques] does a tremendous job in accepting recommendations of students from our staff and then guiding their service projects after selections,” Mastrangelo added, noting Marques is in his 21st year of advisor to the prestigious NHS institution. “These students and Mr. Marques are a credit to our school community.” Following are the newest National Honor Society selectees from Malden High School: Malden High School gets high marks for performance in schoolwide safety drill ‘WHAT IF?’: Malden Police Dept. sends team to instruct, test on MHS staff, students’ response to simulated lockdown By Steve Freker C MPD TEAM: The Malden Police Special Operations Unit (SOU) and other MPD personnel, led by SOU Commander Lt. Rich Correale, gathered in the Malden High main office lobby prior to the schoolwide safety drill. (Courtesy/Malden High School) all it the “What If...?” factor. It simply does not matter if there has or has not been a school shooting in the greater Boston area in recent memory. Despite this history, it is vital that every school facility in Massachusetts is prepared to respond in case its students are threatened by this type of violence. But what if it did happen here? Those in the Malden Public Schools district, too, must be trained and ready for such a volatile situation, and that is the goal of the recent schoolwide safety drill at Malden High School. It was held during school hours, after all the students received instructions during a Zoom-like mini-tutorial that was delivered to them in their classrooms. The drill — which included a simulated school lockdown — was led by Malden Police Lieutenant Rich Correale, who is also commander of MPD’s Special Operations Unit (SOU). 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