Salem Classical and High School

John Richard Folsom Jr.

Salem Classical and High School in Salem, Massachusetts, listed John Richard Folsom Jr. among 298 graduates in the class of 1940. The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed.

Class of 1940

298 in the class of 1940 · 12 more named Folsom

Full name: John Richard Folsom Jr.
School: Salem Classical and High School
Graduated: Class of 1940

Also searched as: Jack Folsom; John Folsom; John R. Folsom; Johnny Folsom.

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Classmates 297

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This site lists 298 people from the Salem Classical and High School class of 1940; sorted by surname, John comes 79th. Find John on page 92 of the scan; the people on this site from the Salem Classical and High School class of 1940 are spread over pages 17 to 92. From 1938 to 1945, 96 Salem Classical and High School graduates on this site share the first name John, spread over 8 classes and peaking at 18 in 1941. The most common first names in the class of 1940 were John (14), Mary (11) and Joseph (9); in the class of 1939 they were Robert (19), John (17) and James (10). The volume is titled “The Witch”, edited by Claude C. Levescue, as read from its opening pages.

On the same scan page	Donald Emerson Monson, Merrill Silver Stocker, Laura Catherine Zukowska
Same first name	John: 13 other people in the class
The book's own title	The Witch (editor: Claude C. Levescue)

What the page does not say. John's entry, as read here, has no clubs or activities, no write-up or quotation. Share of the class's entries that do: clubs or activities 72% and write-up or quotation 59%. The book may have left them out, or the reading may have missed them; check the scan.

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Salem Classical and High School yearbook, 1940, page 92. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item salemhighschooly1940clas).

Published 1940. Scan courtesy of the contributing library via the Internet Archive.

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