Newton High School

Damon Everett Jones

Newton High School in Newton, Massachusetts, listed Damon Everett Jones among 105 graduates in the class of 1917. The entry gives: headed for EMPTY VESSEL MAKES THE GREATEST; lived at 84 Valentine St., West Newton; born in 1899. Portrait and entry from the Newtonian, page 38.

Class of 1917

105 in the class of 1917 · 250 more named Jones

Full name: Damon Everett Jones
Born: December 1, 1899
Lived at: 84 Valentine St., West Newton
School: Newton High School
Graduated: Class of 1917
Course: Scientific
Headed for: EMPTY VESSEL MAKES THE GREATEST

Also searched as: Damon Jones; Damon E. Jones; Jones, Damon.

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Household 1
Same surname 166
Classmates 104

In context

Of the 105 entries from the Newton High School class of 1917 read for this site, Damon's is 48th alphabetically. Turning the scan to page 38 shows Damon; the portraits we read from this book run from page 21 to page 56. People named Jones appear in 9 classes of Newton High School on this site between 1912 and 1928, 13 in all. In the Newton High School class of 1917, 25% of the 105 printed courses are Scientific (26 people), Damon included. For Newton High School, the site holds 105 people from the class of 1917, against 86 for 1916 and 101 for 1918.

On the same scan page	William Henry Irwin, Heloise Katherine Kennedy
Same course	Scientific: 26 of 105 classmates with a course (25%)
The book's own title	Newtonian

At home, 84 Valentine St., West Newton

Same surname, same address — very likely a brother or sister.

Marguerite JonesNewton 1919

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Newton High School yearbook, 1917, page 38. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item newtonian1917newt).

Published 1917, 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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