New Bedford High School

Lena Theresa Thomas

Class of 1936, New Bedford High School, New Bedford, Massachusetts: Lena Theresa Thomas. The yearbook entry prints: came from Parker Street School; headed for Kinyon’s; born in 1917. Portrait and entry from the 1936 yearbook, page 68.

Class of 1936

150 in the class of 1936 · 125 more named Thomas

Full name: Lena Theresa Thomas
Born: December 20, 1917
School: New Bedford High School
Graduated: Class of 1936
Course: Commercial
Came from: Parker Street School
Headed for: Kinyon’s

Also searched as: Lena Thomas; Lena T. Thomas; Thomas, Lena.

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Same surname 90
Classmates 149
Same schools 15

In context

Of the 150 names from the New Bedford High School class of 1936 that have pages here, Lena is 137th in surname order. The entry is on page 68 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 19 to page 72. Lena's course, Commercial, is also the course of 32 others in the 90 entries that print one (37% in all). Among the 37 people in the class who printed a plan, 11 (30%) named a business or secretarial school, as Lena did (“Kinyon’s”). For New Bedford High School, the site holds 150 people from the class of 1936, against 120 for 1935.

On the same scan page	Imogene Thompson, Louise Travers
Same earlier school	Parker Street School: 6 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 11 of 37 classmates with a plan (30%)
Same course	Commercial: 33 of 90 classmates with a course (37%)
The book's own title	Memoirs Under the Red and White

What the yearbook said

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Also headed for Kinyon’s

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New Bedford High School yearbook, 1936, page 68. 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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