Newton High School

Bessie Cline Noble “Ditty, Dit”

Newton High School in Newton, Massachusetts, listed Bessie Cline Noble (“Ditty, Dit”) among 105 graduates in the class of 1921. The entry gives: came from Hyde Grammar School; headed for Boston Universitv; lived at 119 Lincoln St., Newton Highlands, Mass. Portrait and entry from the Newtonian, page 43.

Class of 1921

105 in the class of 1921 · 18 more named Noble

Full name: Bessie Cline Noble
Known as: Ditty, Dit
Born: November 6, 1900
Lived at: 119 Lincoln St., Newton Highlands, Mass
School: Newton High School
Graduated: Class of 1921
Course: Special
Came from: Hyde Grammar School
Headed for: Boston Universitv

Also searched as: Bessie Noble; Bessie C. Noble; Noble, Bessie.

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Neighbours 1
Same surname 14
Classmates 104
Same schools 20

In context

105 people from the Newton High School class of 1921 appear on this site, and Noble puts Bessie 72nd among them. Bessie is printed on page 43 of the scan, in the last third of the 23-to-52 run of portrait pages. Bessie did not arrive alone from Hyde Grammar School: 7 other graduates name it too. Among the 74 people in the class who printed a plan, 48 (65%) named a college or university, as Bessie did (“Boston Universitv”). Counting only people with pages here, the class of 1921 has 105 entries, while the neighbouring classes have 125 for 1920 and 137 for 1922.

On the same scan page	Florence Magran Morford, Harold Joseph Morgan, Audrey Newton
Same earlier school	Hyde Grammar School: 7 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 48 of 74 classmates with a plan (65%)
The book's own title	Newtonian

What the yearbook said

a poet IS BORN, NOT MADE

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Also grew up on Lincoln St., Newton Highlands, Mass

Vivian Irene PowellNewton 1920

The class of 1921

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Others named Noble

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Also came from Hyde Grammar School

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Source

Newton High School yearbook, 1921, page 43. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item newtonian1921newt).

Published 1921, 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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