Newton High School

Edith Whiton Pearson “Edie, E”

Edith Whiton Pearson (“Edie, E”) is one of 350 graduates in the class of 1925 at Newton High School, Newton, Massachusetts. The 1925 yearbook entry gives: headed for Perry Kindergarten; activities listed: Class Hockey and Girls' Debating Club; lived at 132 Church Street, Newton.

Class of 1925

350 in the class of 1925 · 65 more named Pearson

Full name: Edith Whiton Pearson
Known as: Edie, E
Born: March 5, 1907
Lived at: 132 Church Street, Newton
School: Newton High School
Graduated: Class of 1925
Course: Classical
Came from: Bigelow Grammar School
Headed for: Perry Kindergarten

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Group photos 3
Clubs & teams 99
Neighbours 8
Same surname 51
Classmates 349
Same schools 44

In context

Going through the Newton High School class of 1925 from A to Z by surname, Edith is the 243rd of 350 names on this site. In the scan, Edith appears on page 50, in the last third of the run of 350 portraits read for this site (pages 16 to 65). “Class Hockey” appears in 18 entries from the Newton High School class of 1925, Edith's among them. Classical was the course of 142 out of 344 classmates who printed one (41%), including Edith. Count the first names and the class of 1925 gives Mary (22), Helen (15) and Margaret (14), where the class of 1928 gives Mary (13), Elizabeth (10) and William (10).

On the same scan page	William James Payne Jr, Ruth Arleen Peppard, Philip Metcalf Perry, Charles Henry Phelps and 1 more
Same club	Class Hockey: 17 other classmates
Same club	Class Basketball: 21 other classmates
Same earlier school	Bigelow Grammar School: 32 other classmates
Same course	Classical: 142 of 344 classmates with a course (41%)
The book's own title	The Newtonian

Also pictured in group photographs

Faces matched to caption names, and confirmed against Edith's senior portrait.

Field Hockey Team1925

In the same photographs:

What Edith did at school

Class Hockey 28
Girls' Debating Club
Girls' Glee Club
Class Basketball 31
Club 31
Nature Club
Alpha Gamma Tau 67

Fellow members from Edith's own class:

What the yearbook said

Never idle a moment

Also grew up on Church St., Newton

The class of 1925

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Others named Pearson

Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.

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Also came from Bigelow Grammar School

Also headed for Perry Kindergarten

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Source

Newton High School yearbook, 1925, page 50. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item newtonian1925newt).

Published 1925, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Newton Free Library via the Internet Archive.

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