Leominster High School

Loretta Ballard

Leominster High School in Leominster, Massachusetts, listed Loretta Ballard among 151 graduates in the class of 1938. The entry gives: headed for Becker College; activities listed: Speech Club and Usher Thanksgiving Game; a motto. Portrait and entry from the 1938 yearbook, page 10.

Class of 1938

151 in the class of 1938 · 8 more named Ballard

Full name: Loretta Ballard
School: Leominster High School
Graduated: Class of 1938
Headed for: Becker College

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Same surname 4
Classmates 150
Same schools 22

In context

Loretta Ballard is number 3 of 151 in the alphabetical list of the Leominster High School class of 1938 on this site. On the scan, the entry sits on page 10, right at the start of the stretch from page 9 to page 26 where this site found the book's portraits. Loretta's plan is printed as “Becker College”, which counts here as a business or secretarial school; 30 of the 103 classmates who named a plan (29%) named the same kind. The most common first names in the class of 1938 were Ruth (6), George (5) and Mary (5); in the class of 1936 they were Ruth (6) and Robert (5).

On the same scan page	Francis Arsenault, William Bailey, Ernest Beaudoin, Alice Becrelis and 5 more
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 30 of 103 classmates with a plan (29%)

What Loretta did at school

Speech Club
Usher Thanksgiving Game
Program Committee Football Game
Reception Committee

What the yearbook said

Men apparently prefer red-heads.

The class of 1938

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Others named Ballard

Same surname in Massachusetts. They may be relatives; the books do not say.

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Also headed for Becker College

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Leominster High School yearbook, 1938, page 10. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item leominsterhighsc1938unse).

Published 1938. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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