Malden High School

Margaret Agnes Gailis “Peggy”

Margaret Agnes Gailis (“Peggy”) is one of 86 graduates in the class of 1926-A at Malden High School, Malden, Massachusetts. The 1926 yearbook entry gives: came from Centre School; headed for Burdett College; lived at 37 Clinton Street.

Class of 1926-A

86 in the class of 1926 · 2 more named Gailis

Full name: Margaret Agnes Gailis
Known as: Peggy
Born: March 6, 1905
Lived at: 37 Clinton Street, Malden, Massachusetts
School: Malden High School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Course: Commercial
Came from: Centre School
Headed for: Burdett College

Also searched as: Peggy Gailis; Margaret Gailis; Margaret A. Gailis; Maggie Gailis.

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Same surname 1
Classmates 85
Same schools 100

In context

86 people from the Malden High School class of 1926-A appear on this site, and Gailis puts Margaret 35th among them. On the scan, the entry sits on page 21, around the middle of the stretch from page 14 to page 33 where this site found the book's portraits. Commercial was the course of 24 out of 86 classmates who printed one (28%), including Margaret. From 1919 to 1931, 18 Malden High School graduates on this site share the first name Margaret, spread over 11 classes. 35% of those in the class of 1926-A who printed a course took a college or college-preparatory one, against 27% in 1925 and 21% in 1927-B.

On the same scan page	Abraham Albert Finklestein, Sadie Flesher, Rose Freedman, Anthony Joseph Gianquitto
Same earlier school	Centre School: 12 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 7 of 70 classmates with a plan (10%)
Same course	Commercial: 24 of 86 classmates with a course (28%)

What the yearbook said

And ever o’er her work she bent And ever lived on earth content.

The class of 1926

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Others named Gailis

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

Charles Darwin GailisMalden 1928

Also came from Centre School

Also headed for Burdett College

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Malden High School yearbook, 1926, page 21. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item maldonianyearboo1926mald).

Published 1926, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Malden Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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