Somerville High School

Helen Joy “Happy”

Helen Joy (“Happy”), Somerville High School class of 1931 (Somerville, Massachusetts). The entry prints: Commercial Course; activities listed: Hockey and Prose Club; lived at 7 Vinal Avenue.

Class of 1931

563 in the class of 1931 · 8 more named Joy

Full name: Helen Joy
Known as: Happy
Lived at: 7 Vinal Avenue, Somerville, Massachusetts
School: Somerville High School
Graduated: Class of 1931
Course: Commercial Course

Also searched as: Happy Joy; Joy, Helen.

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Clubs & teams 86
Neighbours 5
Same surname 6
Classmates 562

In context

563 people from the Somerville High School class of 1931 appear on this site, and Joy puts Helen 249th among them. On the scan, the entry sits on page 60, around the middle of the stretch from page 27 to page 102 where this site found the book's portraits. Of the 535 entries in the class with a course, 141 (26%) say Commercial Course, Helen's among them. The first name Helen runs through 13 classes of Somerville High School (1917 to 1931), 105 people in all, and is most common in 1922 (15). Counting only people with pages here, the class of 1931 has 563 entries, while the neighbouring class has 419 for 1930.

On the same scan page	Mervin Johnston, Arnold Jones, Bertha Jones, Charles Jones and 3 more
Same club	Hockey: 4 other classmates
Same club	Prose Club: 59 other classmates
Same course	Commercial Course: 141 of 535 classmates with a course (26%)
Same first name	Helen: 10 other people in the class

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What the yearbook said

Gentle in manner, firm in reality.

Also grew up on Vinal Ave

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Somerville High School yearbook, 1931, page 60. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item radiatorsomervi1931some_0).

Published 1931. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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