The son of David Joseph and Rebecca (Clogher) Maloney, he attended Dartmouth College, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1926, and thereupon served as a teacher at Nantucket (Mass.) High School until 1926. During the ensuing two years, he was a teach at Central High school of Manchester, N.H.; and following this, he returned to Nantucket where he held the position of supervisor of art in the schools of that island until 1942. Married to Marguerite E. McHugh in 1935, he became the father of three children. At this time Mr. Maloney's teaching career was interrupted by the Second World War during which he served as lieutenant commander, U.S. Navy. Upon his return to civilian life in 1946, Mr. Maloney joined the faculty of Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Manhatten, Kansas as instructor of English; later he worked at Pennsylvania State University as assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and director of Foreign Student Affairs. He retired to Nantucket in 1970 and was the author of editorial cartoons for the Inquirer and Mirror under the name "Atropos."