Somerville High School

Bertha Wood “Sis”

Class of 1925, Somerville High School, Somerville, Massachusetts: Bertha Wood (“Sis”). The yearbook entry prints: Commercial course; headed for Boston University; a motto. Portrait and entry from the 1925 yearbook, page 111.

Class of 1925

440 in the class of 1925 · 139 more named Wood

Full name: Bertha Wood
Known as: Sis
School: Somerville High School
Graduated: Class of 1925
Course: Commercial
Headed for: Boston University

Also searched as: Sis Wood; Wood, Bertha.

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Same surname 106
Classmates 439
Same schools 305

In context

Of the 440 names from the Somerville High School class of 1925 that have pages here, Bertha is 432nd in surname order. Bertha is printed on page 111 of the scan, near the end of the 28-to-112 run of portrait pages. Across 10 classes of Somerville High School on this site, from 1917 to 1931, 15 people are named Bertha. Wood is the surname of 11 people across 6 Somerville High School classes on this site, 1920 to 1930. Of the 438 entries in the class of 1925 that print a course, 120 (27%) are college or college-preparatory, where the neighbouring classes have 26% in 1924 and 22% in 1926.

On the same scan page	Myrtle Wilcox, Belvin F. Williston, Edward L. Wisewell, Annie H. Wolfe
Same kind of plan	college or university: 179 of 308 classmates with a plan (58%)
Same course	Commercial: 99 of 438 classmates with a course (23%)

What the yearbook said

Soft blue eyes and dark bobbed hair.

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Somerville High School yearbook, 1925, page 111. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item radiatorsomervi1925some_0).

Published 1925, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Somerville Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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