‘RESILIENCE LIVES HERE’: 29 more Malden High Class of 2025 seniors earn diplomas

Family, friends, city and school officials & staff congratulate Summer Graduation honorees

By Steve Freker

To get to this finish line, it took a bit more, a little extra. That was quite clear at this ceremony.

“To get here, you had to show a lot,” Malden Mayor Gary Christenson said at the Summer Graduation Ceremony for Malden High School seniors held in the Jenkins Auditorium. “You had to stay the course, show commitment and above all, you had to be resilient.

“All of you seniors did finish what you started and earned the diplomas they are receiving today.”

Twenty-nine members of the Malden High School Class of 2025 were honored on July 31 on completing their graduation requirements in the summer session. They were all awarded their high school diplomas as a large audience of family and friends cheered and congratulated them. The traditional Class of 2025 Graduation Ceremony was held on June 1 at Macdonald Stadium with 436 diplomas conferred.

“Thank you to everyone who helped us along the way,” said Malden High senior Emmanuel Jiminez Ortega, who served as the co-Class Speaker for the ceremony. “We could not have made it here without you.”

“We all appreciate all the support we received to make it to this day, and we will keep working hard even after this day,” co-Class Speaker Cristofer Movilla Sanchez added, when he spoke.

Malden Superintendent of Schools Timothy Sippel, Ed.D.L., who recently began his second year at the helm, said, “Congratulations to all of you. You have made great choices and set priorities; keep that up as you continue in life. You have shown great perseverance to get to today; also keep that up as well.”

“Class of 2025, you’ve been supported by your family and friends and no one is supposed to go through this part of your life alone. Keep those relationships and make them stronger,” Dr. Sippel said.

Malden High School Principal Chris Mastrangelo called the ceremony his “favorite event of the summer.” “These students made a choice to succeed, they picked the tougher road and they showed us all today that they chose the right road.”

“Congratulations to everyone and remember — you will always be welcome here, this is your home,” Mastrangelo added.

Also in attendance at Summer Graduation 2024 were Malden School Committee Vice Chair Jennifer Spadafora (Ward 3), member Elizabeth Hortie (Ward 5), Malden Assistant Superintendents Komal Bhasin (Curriculum and Learning), Pam McDonald (Student Services), Sarah McLaughlin (Human Resources), Malden Public Schools Director of Guidance Erin Craven and Malden High Assistant Principal Brian Bates (Holland House), who assisted in the ceremony by reading the names of the graduates.

Special acknowledgement and thanks were announced for Ann O’Connor, an MHS Guidance Counselor who served as MHS Summer School Director for the second time this summer, and administrative assistants Jamila Andino and Sophia Casaletto (Main Office), Boyle/Holland administrative assistant Christina Baires and Jenkins/Brunelli administrative assistant Leanne Glennon. Also receiving thanks were the Summer School teaching staff: Mr. Abbatessa, Ms. Euell, Ms. Fitzpatrick, Ms. Kansoun, Mr. Kolodny, Ms. Magras, Dr. Redmond.

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Twenty-nine Class of 2025 members are new Malden High graduates. The following Malden High Class of 2025 seniors received their diplomas at Summer Graduation:

Taina Abreu Cardoso Barbosa

Joshua Arevalo

Abbas Bahrampouri

Samantha Bien-Aime

Samira Coutinho

Hector Curet

Zlatan Delmy

Jordany Douyon

Daniel Duverge

Fares Elfeky

Weijun Fang

Anthony Gedeus

Jordan Hartin

Emmanuel Jiminez Ortega

Hasnaat Khan

Dantley Leonard

Ryan Leonard Benji Li

Andy Mathelier

Zechariah Mayne Foster

Cristofer Movilla Sanchez

Henry Pinto Rodriguez

Joaby Silva

Kauany Silva Soares

Christian Spoto

Raiden Taylor

Derie Tse

Noelle Welch