Somerville High School

Herbert Colpus “Scotty”

Class of 1931, Somerville High School, Somerville, Massachusetts: Herbert Colpus (“Scotty”). The yearbook entry prints: College Course; activities listed: Track; lived at 4 Wellington Avenue. Portrait and entry from the 1931 yearbook, page 37.

Class of 1931

563 in the class of 1931 · 1 more named Colpus

Full name: Herbert Colpus
Known as: Scotty
Lived at: 4 Wellington Avenue, Somerville, Massachusetts
School: Somerville High School
Graduated: Class of 1931
Course: College Course

Also searched as: Scotty Colpus; Herb Colpus; Colpus, Herbert.

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Clubs & teams 51
Neighbours 11
Classmates 562

In context

Herbert Colpus is number 74 of 563 in the alphabetical list of the Somerville High School class of 1931 on this site. On the scan, the entry sits on page 37, in the first third of the stretch from page 27 to page 102 where this site found the book's portraits. Herbert shared “Track” with 32 graduates, going by what the yearbook prints. The first name Herbert appears 18 times in the 9 Somerville High School classes read for this site (1922 to 1931). Of the 535 entries in the class of 1931 that print a course, 82 (15%) are college or college-preparatory, where the neighbouring class has 23% in 1930.

On the same scan page	Doris Cohen, Edith Colbath, Claire Cole, Norman Collins and 2 more
Same club	Track: 32 other classmates
Same course	College Course: 79 of 535 classmates with a course (15%)

What Herbert did at school

Track 132

Fellow members from Herbert's own class:

What the yearbook said

Talent is that which is in a man’s power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

Also grew up on Wellington Ave

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Somerville High School yearbook, 1931, page 37. 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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