Fairhaven High School

Joseph Anthony Sylvia “SILKIE”

Joseph Anthony Sylvia (“SILKIE”) appears in the 1926 yearbook of Fairhaven High School in Fairhaven, MA. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1926

54 in the class of 1926 · 52 more named Sylvia

Full name: Joseph Anthony Sylvia
Known as: SILKIE
School: Fairhaven High School
Graduated: Class of 1926

Also searched as: Silkie Sylvia; Joe Sylvia; Joseph Sylvia; Joseph A. Sylvia.

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Same surname 51
Classmates 53

In context

54 people from the Fairhaven High School class of 1926 appear on this site, and Sylvia puts Joseph 47th among them. In the scan, Joseph appears on page 35, in the last third of the run of 54 portraits read for this site (pages 16 to 38). The yearbook's own front pages give “Learning is but an adjunct to ourself” as the class motto.

On the same scan page	Gilbert William Stearns

What the page does not say. Grammar school is missing. The rest of the Fairhaven High School class of 1926 has it often (grammar school 31%), so the gap may belong to the reading rather than to Joseph. The scan is the authority.

What Joseph did at school

Baseball
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Chorus

The class of 1926

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Others named Sylvia

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Source

Fairhaven High School yearbook, 1926, page 35. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item huttlestonian1926fair_1).

Published 1926, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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