Winthrop High School

Florence Nelson “Flo”

Florence Nelson (“Flo”) was a senior at Winthrop High School in Winthrop, Massachusetts, in 1928, one of 135 graduates. The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed.

Class of 1928

135 in the class of 1928 · 172 more named Nelson

Full name: Florence Nelson
Known as: Flo
School: Winthrop High School
Graduated: Class of 1928

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Same surname 118
Classmates 134

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This site lists 135 people from the Winthrop High School class of 1928; sorted by surname, Florence comes 89th. In the scan, Florence appears on page 26, in the last third of the run of 135 portraits read for this site (pages 14 to 30). “The Echo” is the title of this yearbook, edited by WILFRID PRYOR de MILLE.

On the same scan page	Gertrude Moriarty, Katherine Murphy, Helen Murray, Madeleine Nazro and 5 more
The book's own title	The Echo (editor: WILFRID PRYOR de MILLE)

What the page does not say. No clubs or activities for Florence. Other entries in the Winthrop High School class of 1928 carry it far more often (clubs or activities 48%), so either the book did not print it or our reading missed it; the scan has the final word.

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Florence NelsonWeymouth 1932

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Source

Winthrop High School yearbook, 1928, page 26. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item echo1928wint).

Published 1928, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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