Somerville High School

Martha Risdon “Ma”

Class of 1922, Somerville High School, Somerville, Massachusetts: Martha Risdon (“Ma”). The yearbook entry prints: Commercial course; activities listed: Glee Club and English Drama Club; lived at 58 Lowden Ave. Portrait and entry from the Radiator, page 57.

Class of 1922

535 in the class of 1922 · 2 more named Risdon

Full name: Martha Risdon
Known as: Ma
Lived at: 58 Lowden Ave, Somerville, Massachusetts
School: Somerville High School
Graduated: Class of 1922
Course: Commercial

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Clubs & teams 164
Neighbours 38
Same surname 1
Classmates 534

In context

Going through the Somerville High School class of 1922 from A to Z by surname, Martha is the 421st of 535 names on this site. Find Martha on page 57 of the scan; the people on this site from the Somerville High School class of 1922 are spread over pages 32 to 125. Martha's course, Commercial, is also the course of 227 others in the 513 entries that print one (44% in all). Counting Martha, 6 people in the Somerville High School class of 1922 give Lowden Avenue as their street. The share taking a college or college-preparatory course was 26% in the class of 1922 (132 of 513), against 23% in 1921 and 26% in 1924.

On the same scan page	Beatrice Bingham, Mildred French, Dorothea Kopf, Nellie Sadlier and 1 more
Same street	Lowden Avenue: 5 other classmates
Same club	Glee Club: 70 other classmates
Same club	English Drama Club: 97 other classmates
Same course	Commercial: 228 of 513 classmates with a course (44%)
The book's own title	The Radiator

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Contentment is the wisdom of the wise.

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Valerie I. RisdonMedford 1936

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Somerville High School yearbook, 1922, page 57. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item radiatorsomervi1922some_0).

Published 1922, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Somerville Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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