New Bedford High School

John Elwood Hartley

John Elwood Hartley, class of 1936, New Bedford High School (New Bedford, Massachusetts). The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed. Portrait and entry from the 1936 yearbook, page 43.

Class of 1936

150 in the class of 1936 · 18 more named Hartley

Full name: John Elwood Hartley
School: New Bedford High School
Graduated: Class of 1936

Also searched as: Jack Hartley; John Hartley; John E. Hartley; Johnny Hartley.

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Same surname 12
Classmates 149

In context

150 people from the New Bedford High School class of 1936 appear on this site, and Hartley puts John 61st among them. On the scan, the entry sits on page 43, around the middle of the stretch from page 19 to page 72 where this site found the book's portraits. Across 25 classes of New Bedford High School on this site, from 1924 to 1945, 91 people are named John; the class of 1941 has the most, 11. The class of 1936: 39% of printed courses lead to college, versus 46% in 1935. Among the book's opening lines is this class motto or emblem: “EDUCATION IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS”.

On the same scan page	Barbara Louise Harrington, Alma Fredericka Henwood
The book's own title	Memoirs Under the Red and White

What the page does not say. No birth date, no grammar school, no course here. Classmates' entries carry them often (birth date 65%, grammar school 65% and course 60%); if John's entry has them on the scan, our reading missed them and we would like to hear.

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New Bedford High School yearbook, 1936, page 43. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item memoirsunderredw1936newb).

Published 1936. Scan courtesy of the contributing library via the Internet Archive.

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