Framingham State Normal School

Mary Gertrude Payne “Gee Whiz”

Mary Gertrude Payne (“Gee Whiz”) is one of 159 graduates in the class of 1923 at Framingham State Normal School, Framingham, Massachusetts. The yearbook entry gives the name and portrait; no other details have been transcribed. Portrait and entry from the 1923 yearbook, page 72.

Class of 1923

159 in the class of 1923 · 34 more named Payne

Full name: Mary Gertrude Payne
Known as: Gee Whiz
School: Framingham State Normal School
Graduated: Class of 1923

Also searched as: Polly Payne; Mary Payne; Mary G. Payne; Molly Payne.

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Same surname 16
Classmates 158

In context

In the alphabetical roll of 159 names from the Framingham State Normal School class of 1923, Mary stands 102nd. On the scan, the entry sits on page 72, around the middle of the stretch from page 36 to page 95 where this site found the book's portraits. There are 6 people named Mary in the Framingham State Normal School class of 1923; the entry on this page is one of them. In the class of 1923 the first names most often shared were Helen (14), Marion (8) and Ruth (8); the class of 1921 had Doris (7) and Mary (7).

On the same scan page	Ruth Ella Parker, Katharyn Maria Payne
Same first name	Mary: 5 other people in the class

What the page does not say. No home address, no birth date, no course for Mary. Other entries in the Framingham State Normal School class of 1923 carry them far more often (home address 49%, birth date 48% and course 47%), so either the book did not print them or our reading missed them; the scan has the final word.

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Source

Framingham State Normal School yearbook, 1923, page 72. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item dial1923fram).

Published 1923, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Framingham State University, Henry Whittemore Library via the Internet Archive.

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