Somerville High School

Mary E. Troy “Speed”

Mary E. Troy (“Speed”) was a senior at Somerville High School in Somerville, MA, in 1929. The yearbook prints the name and the portrait; this page adds classmates and a link to the original scan.

Class of 1929

120 in the class of 1929 · 4 more named Troy

Full name: Mary E. Troy
Known as: Speed
School: Somerville High School
Graduated: Class of 1929

Also searched as: Speed Troy; Polly Troy; Mary Troy; Molly Troy.

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Same surname 3
Classmates 119

In context

Going through the Somerville High School class of 1929 from A to Z by surname, Mary is the 114th of 120 names on this site. Mary is printed on page 348 of the scan, near the end of the 274-to-349 run of portrait pages. The first name Mary appears 150 times in the 12 Somerville High School classes read for this site (1917 to 1931), most often in 1929 (24). The share taking a college or college-preparatory course was 27% in the class of 1929 (19 of 70), against 24% in 1928 and 23% in 1930. “Somerville High School Radiator” is the name this yearbook gives itself.

On the same scan page	Irving Triber, Dorothy Tucker, Helen Turasz, Alfred P. Turner and 2 more
The book's own title	Somerville High School Radiator

What the page does not say. Home address, course and clubs or activities are missing. The rest of the Somerville High School class of 1929 has them often (home address 62%, course 58% and clubs or activities 50%), so the gap may belong to the reading rather than to Mary. The scan is the authority.

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Others named Troy

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

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Source

Somerville High School yearbook, 1929, page 348. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item radiatorsomervil1929some).

Published 1929, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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