Malden High School

Gertrude Lodgen “Gertie”

Malden High School in Malden, Massachusetts, listed Gertrude Lodgen (“Gertie”) among 86 graduates in the class of 1926-A. The entry gives: headed for College of the Spoken Word; activities listed: Sigma Phi and Associate Editor Senior Advisory Staff; lived at 48 Boylston Street. Portrait and entry from the 1926 yearbook, page 24.

Class of 1926-A

86 in the class of 1926 · 2 more named Lodgen

Full name: Gertrude Lodgen
Known as: Gertie
Born: April 5, 1907
Lived at: 48 Boylston Street, Malden, Massachusetts
School: Malden High School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Course: Commercial
Came from: Belmont School
Headed for: College of the Spoken Word

Also searched as: Gertie Lodgen; Lodgen, Gertrude.

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Neighbours 2
Same surname 1
Classmates 85
Same schools 45

In context

Going through the Malden High School class of 1926-A from A to Z by surname, Gertrude is the 47th of 86 names on this site. Turning the scan to page 24 shows Gertrude; the portraits we read from this book run from page 14 to page 33. 24 of the 86 classmates who printed a course (28%) took Commercial, as Gertrude did. In the 11 classes of Malden High School between 1919 and 1931 that this site covers, 12 people have the first name Gertrude. The class of 1926-A has 86 names here, where the neighbouring class has 77 for 1925.

On the same scan page	Elsie Marion Libby, Marjorie Lovell, Charles MacKenzie
Same earlier school	Belmont School: 6 other classmates
Same kind of plan	college or university: 32 of 70 classmates with a plan (46%)
Same course	Commercial: 24 of 86 classmates with a course (28%)

What Gertrude did at school

Sigma Phi
Associate Editor Senior Advisory Staff

What the yearbook said

Drama is the most refined pleasure of a polished people.

Also grew up on Boylston Street

The class of 1926

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Others named Lodgen

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

George Edward LodgenMalden 1928

Also came from Belmont School

Also headed for College of the Spoken Word

Evelyn GrushSomerville 1924

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Source

Malden High School yearbook, 1926, page 24. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item maldonianyearboo1926mald).

Published 1926, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Malden Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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