Malden High School

Anita Lavinia Deacon “Silence is golden”

Anita Lavinia Deacon (“Silence is golden”) was one of 104 graduates in the class of 1926 at Malden High School, Malden, Massachusetts. Printed details: General course; headed for Burdett College; activities listed: Ecce Signum Sorority. Portrait and entry from the 1926 yearbook, page 17.

Class of 1926

104 in the class of 1926 · 4 more named Deacon

Full name: Anita Lavinia Deacon
Known as: Silence is golden
School: Malden High School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Course: General
Headed for: Burdett College

Also searched as: Anita Deacon; Anita L. Deacon; Deacon, Anita.

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Clubs & teams 4
Same surname 3
Classmates 103
Same schools 38

In context

Of the 104 names from the Malden High School class of 1926 that have pages here, Anita is 23rd in surname order. The entry is on page 17 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 15 to page 26. “Burdett College” is Anita's plan after graduation; 11 of 82 classmates with a printed plan (13%) named a business or secretarial school. In the Malden High School class of 1926, 5 entries mention “Ecce Signum Sorority”; Anita's is one of them. Names on this site: 104 for the class of 1926, compared with 77 for 1925 and 168 for 1927-B.

On the same scan page	Philip Russell Cummings, Shirley Cushman, Thomas Francis Dalton, Martha Dexter and 4 more
Same club	Ecce Signum Sorority: 4 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 11 of 82 classmates with a plan (13%)
Same course	General: 29 of 84 classmates with a course (35%)

What Anita did at school

Ecce Signum Sorority 8

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Also headed for Burdett College

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Source

Malden High School yearbook, 1926, page 17. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item maldonianyearbo1926mald_0).

Published 1926, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Malden Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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