Somerville High School

Florence Di Silva “Flossie”

Somerville High School in Somerville, Massachusetts, listed Florence Di Silva (“Flossie”) among 470 graduates in the class of 1929. The entry gives: Commercial course; activities listed: Typewriting Awards; lived at 77 Pearson Ave. Portrait and entry from the 1929 yearbook, page 45.

Class of 1929

470 in the class of 1929 · 3 more named Di Silva

Full name: Florence Di Silva
Known as: Flossie
Lived at: 77 Pearson Ave, Somerville, Massachusetts
School: Somerville High School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Course: Commercial

Also searched as: Flossie Di Silva; Flo Di Silva; Di Silva, Florence.

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Household 1
Neighbours 15
Same surname 1
Classmates 469

In context

Of the 470 entries from the Somerville High School class of 1929 read for this site, Florence's is 107th alphabetically. The entry is on page 45 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 29 to page 101. The first name Florence runs through 12 classes of Somerville High School (1917 to 1931), 51 people in all, and is most common in 1922 (11). Of the 461 entries in the class with a course, 110 (24%) say Commercial, Florence's among them. Among first names, the class of 1929 favours Mary (24), John (20) and Dorothy (13); the class of 1928 had Dorothy (17) and Mary (15).

On the same scan page	Irma Louise Di Guisto, Cosmo Di Silva, Dorothy R. Diozzi, William Diskin and 1 more
Same course	Commercial: 110 of 461 classmates with a course (24%)
The book's own title	Radiator Year Book

At home, 77 Pearson Ave

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

Cosmo Di SilvaSomerville 1929

What Florence did at school

Typewriting Awards

Also grew up on Pearson Ave

The class of 1929

All 470 in this class →

Others named Di Silva

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

Joseph Di SilvaSomerville 1922

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Somerville High School yearbook, 1929, page 45. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item radiatorsomervi1929some_0).

Published 1929, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Somerville Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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