Lawrence High School

Esther Thelma Cole “Red”

Class of 1944, Lawrence High School, Lawrence, Massachusetts: Esther Thelma Cole (“Red”). The yearbook entry prints: came from Bruce; headed for Nurse; born in 1927. Portrait and entry from the Blue and White, page 28.

Class of 1944

512 in the class of 1944 · 92 more named Cole

Full name: Esther Thelma Cole
Known as: Red
Born: July 1, 1927
School: Lawrence High School
Graduated: Class of 1944
Course: Nurses Preparatory
Came from: Bruce
Headed for: Nurse

Also searched as: Red Cole; Esther Cole; Esther T. Cole; Cole, Esther.

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Same surname 69
Classmates 511
Same schools 108

In context

512 people from the Lawrence High School class of 1944 appear on this site, and Cole puts Esther 84th among them. Turning the scan to page 28 shows Esther; the portraits we read from this book run from page 12 to page 119. Esther's course, Nurses Preparatory, is also the course of 54 others in the 496 entries that print one (11% in all). Esther did not arrive alone from Bruce: 64 other graduates name it too. 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	Clare M. Cochrane, Gerald Jason Cohen, Howard I. Cohen, David George Collins
Same earlier school	Bruce: 64 other classmates
Same kind of plan	nursing: 45 of 350 classmates with a plan (13%)
Same course	Nurses Preparatory: 55 of 496 classmates with a course (11%)
The book's own title	The Blue and White

What the yearbook said

“Laughing eyes reflect a cheerful soul"

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Lawrence High School yearbook, 1944, page 28. 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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