Lawrence High School

Claire Eva Pettengill “Tootsie”

Claire Eva Pettengill (“Tootsie”) is one of 512 graduates in the class of 1944 at Lawrence High School, Lawrence, Massachusetts. The 1944 yearbook entry gives: Nurses Preparatory course; came from Tarbox; born in 1926.

Class of 1944

512 in the class of 1944 · 7 more named Pettengill

Full name: Claire Eva Pettengill
Known as: Tootsie
Born: October 2, 1926
School: Lawrence High School
Graduated: Class of 1944
Course: Nurses Preparatory
Came from: Tarbox

Also searched as: Tootsie Pettengill; Claire Pettengill; Claire E. Pettengill; Pettengill, Claire.

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Same surname 6
Classmates 511
Same schools 70

In context

Going through the Lawrence High School class of 1944 from A to Z by surname, Claire is the 378th of 512 names on this site. Turning the scan to page 90 shows Claire; the portraits we read from this book run from page 12 to page 119. Claire's course, Nurses Preparatory, is also the course of 54 others in the 496 entries that print one (11% in all). 58 other graduates came from Tarbox, the school Claire is listed as coming from. Against 382 for 1945, the class of 1944 comes to 512 names on this site.

On the same scan page	John J. Piccolomini, Daniel A. Pierro, Anne Pinell, Beatrice Janice Pinto
Same earlier school	Tarbox: 58 other classmates
Same course	Nurses Preparatory: 55 of 496 classmates with a course (11%)
Same first name	Claire: 5 other people in the class
The book's own title	The Blue and White

What the yearbook said

"Quiet and sweet, thoughtful and neat”

The class of 1944

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Others named Pettengill

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Also came from Tarbox

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Lawrence High School yearbook, 1944, page 90. 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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