Lawrence High School

Donald Stanley Pendergast “Ducky”

Donald Stanley Pendergast (“Ducky”), Lawrence High School class of 1944 (Lawrence, Massachusetts). The entry prints: came from Breen; headed for Join the Navy; born in 1927.

Class of 1944

512 in the class of 1944 · 5 more named Pendergast

Full name: Donald Stanley Pendergast
Known as: Ducky
Born: July 7, 1927
School: Lawrence High School
Graduated: Class of 1944
Course: General
Came from: Breen
Headed for: Join the Navy

Also searched as: Ducky Pendergast; Don Pendergast; Donald Pendergast; Donald S. Pendergast.

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Same surname 4
Classmates 511
Same schools 46

In context

512 people from the Lawrence High School class of 1944 appear on this site, and Pendergast puts Donald 373rd among them. Turning the scan to page 89 shows Donald; the portraits we read from this book run from page 12 to page 119. The yearbook lists 40 people from the Lawrence High School class of 1944 as coming from Breen, including Donald. Among the 350 people in the class who printed a plan, 33 (9%) named military service, as Donald did (“Join the Navy”). Among first names, the class of 1944 favours John (22), Joseph (15) and Mary (14); the class of 1945 had John (17) and Robert (13).

On the same scan page	Violet Madeline Penney, David Joseph Perillo, Jacquelyn N. Perry, Dorothy M. Petroccione
Same earlier school	Breen: 39 other classmates
Same kind of plan	military service: 33 of 350 classmates with a plan (9%)
Same course	General: 122 of 496 classmates with a course (25%)
The book's own title	The Blue and White

What Donald did at school

Basketball 2, 3

What the yearbook said

“Good things come in small packages”

The class of 1944

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Others named Pendergast

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Also came from Breen

Also headed for Join the Navy

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Lawrence High School yearbook, 1944, page 89. 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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