Somerville High School

John Downing

John Downing appears in the 1931 yearbook of Somerville High School in Somerville, MA, listed at 14 Carlton Street. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1931

563 in the class of 1931 · 17 more named Downing

Full name: John Downing
Lived at: 14 Carlton Street, Somerville, Massachusetts
School: Somerville High School
Graduated: Class of 1931
Course: General Course

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Clubs & teams 113
Neighbours 3
Same surname 11
Classmates 562

In context

Of the 563 entries from the Somerville High School class of 1931 read for this site, John's is 125th alphabetically. On the scan, the entry sits on page 45, in the first third of the stretch from page 27 to page 102 where this site found the book's portraits. John is listed under “Traffic Squad”, along with 60 other classmates. 213 of the 535 classmates who printed a course (40%) took General Course, as John did. Among first names, the class of 1931 favours John (23), William (17) and Dorothy (16); the class of 1930 had John (18), Mary (16) and Edward (11).

On the same scan page	Jeannette Dooner, Benjamin Dow, Esther Dow, Margaret Driscoll and 3 more
Same club	Traffic Squad: 60 other classmates
Same club	Class Day Officer: 15 other classmates
Same course	General Course: 213 of 535 classmates with a course (40%)
Same first name	John: 22 other people in the class

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Somerville High School yearbook, 1931, page 45. 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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