Newton High School

Donald L. Houghton “Chick”

Class of 1924, Newton High School, Newton, Massachusetts: Donald L. Houghton (“Chick”). The yearbook entry prints: came from Roger Wolcott Grammar School; headed for Salem Normal School; lived at 187 Woodward St.. Waban. Portrait and entry from the Newtonian, page 44.

Class of 1924

153 in the class of 1924 · 26 more named Houghton

Full name: Donald L. Houghton
Known as: Chick
Born: February 3, 1905
Lived at: 187 Woodward St.. Waban, Newton, Massachusetts
School: Newton High School
Graduated: Class of 1924
Course: Scientific
Came from: Roger Wolcott Grammar School
Headed for: Salem Normal School

Also searched as: Chick Houghton; Don Houghton; Donald Houghton; Houghton, Donald.

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Neighbours 4
Same surname 23
Classmates 152
Same schools 72

In context

153 people from the Newton High School class of 1924 appear on this site, and Houghton puts Donald 63rd among them. The entry is on page 44 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 23 to page 73. Donald's “Salem Normal School” falls in the same group as 5 of the 117 plans printed for the class (4%): a normal school or teachers college. Donald's course, Scientific, is also the course of 34 others in the 153 entries that print one (23% in all). Of the 88 plans printed for the class of 1924 that name a kind of next step, 76 (86%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 89% in 1923 and 84% in 1925.

On the same scan page	G. Dorothy Hodgdon, Muriel Howard
Same earlier school	Roger Wolcott Grammar School: 9 other classmates
Same kind of plan	teacher training: 5 of 117 classmates with a plan (4%)
Same course	Scientific: 35 of 153 classmates with a course (23%)
The book's own title	Newtonian (editor: Lawrence A. Peakes)

What the yearbook said

i HAVE ALWAYS SAID THE FIRST WHIG WAS THE DEVIL

Also grew up on Woodward St., Waban

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Also came from Roger Wolcott Grammar School

Also headed for Salem Normal School

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Source

Newton High School yearbook, 1924, page 44. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item newtonian1924newt).

Published 1924, 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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