Malden High School

James Francis Donahue “Jimmie”

James Francis Donahue (“Jimmie”) is one of 86 graduates in the class of 1926-A at Malden High School, Malden, Massachusetts. The 1926 yearbook entry gives: came from Immaculate Conception School; headed for Business School; lived at 31 West Street.

Class of 1926-A

86 in the class of 1926 · 70 more named Donahue

Full name: James Francis Donahue
Known as: Jimmie
Born: April 12, 1908
Lived at: 31 West Street, Malden, Massachusetts
School: Malden High School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Course: Commercial
Came from: Immaculate Conception School
Headed for: Business School

Also searched as: Jimmie Donahue; Jim Donahue; James Donahue; James F. Donahue.

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Classmates 85
Same schools 35

In context

86 people from the Malden High School class of 1926-A appear on this site, and Donahue puts James 24th among them. James's portrait is on scan page 19, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 14 to 33. Of the 86 entries in the class with a course, 24 (28%) say Commercial, James's among them. Among the 70 people in the class who printed a plan, 7 (10%) named a business or secretarial school, as James did (“Business School”). 56% of the graduates in the class of 1926-A whose plans we could classify named a college or university, against 56% in 1925 and 65% in 1927-B.

On the same scan page	Winifred Doe, Katherine Margaret Dolan, Mary Campbell Doull, Ida Droker
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 7 of 70 classmates with a plan (10%)
Same course	Commercial: 24 of 86 classmates with a course (28%)

What the yearbook said

A little nonsense now and then is relished by wisest men.

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Source

Malden High School yearbook, 1926, page 19. 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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