New Bedford High School

Alton Ralph Barber

Alton Ralph Barber was one of 150 graduates in the class of 1936 at New Bedford High School, New Bedford, Massachusetts. Printed details: came from Mt. Pleasant School; activities listed: Gym and Drawing; born in 1912. Portrait and entry from the 1936 yearbook, page 24.

Class of 1936

150 in the class of 1936 · 38 more named Barber

Full name: Alton Ralph Barber
Born: February 15, 1912
School: New Bedford High School
Graduated: Class of 1936
Course: Commercial
Came from: Mt. Pleasant School

Also searched as: Alton Barber; Alton R. Barber; Barber, Alton.

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Same surname 28
Classmates 149
Same schools 9

In context

Of the 150 entries from the New Bedford High School class of 1936 read for this site, Alton's is 7th alphabetically. In the scan, Alton appears on page 24, right at the start of the run of 150 portraits read for this site (pages 19 to 72). In the New Bedford High School class of 1936, 37% of the 90 printed courses are Commercial (33 people), Alton included. A college or college-preparatory course was the choice of 39% of those who printed a course in the class of 1936; the neighbouring class shows 46% in 1935. “Memoirs Under the Red and White” is the name this yearbook gives itself.

On the same scan page	William Bentley Armitage, Ralph Hugh Baird
Same course	Commercial: 33 of 90 classmates with a course (37%)
The book's own title	Memoirs Under the Red and White

What Alton did at school

Gym
Drawing
Color League

What the yearbook said

“There is always time.”

The class of 1936

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Others named Barber

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Also came from Mt. Pleasant School

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Source

New Bedford High School yearbook, 1936, page 24. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item memoirsunderredw1936newb).

Published 1936. Scan courtesy of the contributing library via the Internet Archive.

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