Northeastern University · Boston, Massachusetts

John Willis Purssell, Jr.

John Willis Purssell, Jr. was a senior at Northeastern University in Boston, MA, in 1930. The yearbook prints the name and the portrait; this page adds classmates and a link to the original scan.

Class of 1930

262 in the class of 1930 · 1 more named Purssell

Full name: John Willis Purssell, Jr.
School: Northeastern University
Graduated: Class of 1930

Also searched as: Jack Purssell; John Purssell; John W. Purssell; Johnny Purssell.

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Classmates 261

In context

Going through the Northeastern University class of 1930 from A to Z by surname, John is the 199th of 262 names on this site. On the scan, the entry sits on page 54, around the middle of the stretch from page 32 to page 70 where this site found the book's portraits. John is the most common first name in the Northeastern University class of 1930, with 18 people. First names that recur in the class of 1930: John (18), Charles (11) and William (10). In the class of 1929: John (13), Charles (9) and Robert (7).

On the same scan page	Gustav Adolf Pinkul, Jr., Joseph C. Placzek, Manuel Press, Roman Frank Pucko and 2 more
Same first name	John: 17 other people in the class

What the page does not say. John's entry, as read here, has no birth date, no grammar school, no home address. Share of the class's entries that do: birth date 81%, grammar school 77% and home address 73%. The book may have left them out, or the reading may have missed them; check the scan.

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Source

Northeastern University yearbook, 1930, page 54. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item cauldron00nort).

Published 1930, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Snell Library, Northeastern University via the Internet Archive.

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