Lawrence High School

Bernard Joseph Sheehan “Benny”

Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Massachusetts, listed Bernard Joseph Sheehan (“Benny”) among 512 graduates in the class of 1944. The entry gives: came from St. Laurence’s; headed for Join Navy; born in 1925. Portrait and entry from the Blue and White, page 104.

Class of 1944

512 in the class of 1944 · 66 more named Sheehan

Full name: Bernard Joseph Sheehan
Known as: Benny
Born: July 13, 1925
School: Lawrence High School
Graduated: Class of 1944
Course: College
Came from: St. Laurence’s
Headed for: Join Navy

Also searched as: Benny Sheehan; Bernie Sheehan; Bernard Sheehan; Bernard J. Sheehan.

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Same surname 62
Classmates 511
Same schools 8

In context

Going through the Lawrence High School class of 1944 from A to Z by surname, Bernard is the 449th of 512 names on this site. In the scan, Bernard appears on page 104, in the last third of the run of 512 portraits read for this site (pages 12 to 119). The name Bernard appears 5 times among the 512 names on this site from the class. Military service was the plan of 33 of the 350 classmates who printed one (9%), and Bernard is listed with “Join Navy”. John (22), Joseph (15) and Mary (14) were the first names most often repeated in the class of 1944, and John (17) and Robert (13) in the class of 1945.

On the same scan page	Cornelia Marie Shea, Marguerite Clare Sheehy, Frederic Anthony Shibel, Roy F. Shiepe
Same kind of plan	military service: 33 of 350 classmates with a plan (9%)
Same course	College: 146 of 496 classmates with a course (29%)
Same first name	Bernard: 4 other people in the class
The book's own title	The Blue and White

What the yearbook said

“Reserved but ever fun-loving”

The class of 1944

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Lawrence High School yearbook, 1944, page 104. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item lawrencehighscho1944lawr).

Published 1944. Scan courtesy of the contributing library via the Internet Archive.

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