Lawrence High School

Mary Joan Rizzo

Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Massachusetts, listed Mary Joan Rizzo among 382 graduates in the class of 1945. The entry gives: Business course. Portrait and entry from the Blue and White, page 72.

Class of 1945

382 in the class of 1945 · 10 more named Rizzo

Full name: Mary Joan Rizzo
School: Lawrence High School
Graduated: Class of 1945
Course: Business
Ambition: “Stenographer or secretary”
Pastime: “Swimming, skating, dancing”

Also searched as: Polly Rizzo; Mary Rizzo; Mary J. Rizzo; Molly Rizzo.

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Same surname 7
Classmates 381

In context

Mary Joan Rizzo is number 322 of 382 in the alphabetical list of the Lawrence High School class of 1945 on this site. Mary's portrait is on scan page 72, and this book's portraits on the site span pages 12 to 83. In the 5 classes of Lawrence High School between 1920 and 1945 that this site covers, 30 people have the first name Mary, with the largest group (14) in 1944. Mary is one of 64 listed under Business among the 328 classmates whose course is printed (20%). The most common first names in the class of 1945 were John (17) and Robert (13); in the class of 1944 they were John (22), Joseph (15) and Mary (14).

On the same scan page	Mitchell S. Reisman, Robert William Richter, Alfred Rickley
Same course	Business: 64 of 328 classmates with a course (20%)
Same first name	Mary: 8 other people in the class
The book's own title	The Blue and White

What the page does not say. Nothing on birth date, grammar school and clubs or activities appears for Mary, though classmates' entries carry them (birth date 89%, grammar school 63% and clubs or activities 37%); Mary's entry may print them and have been mis-read, or not print them at all.

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Lawrence High School yearbook, 1945, page 72. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item lawrencehighscho1945lawr).

Published 1945. Scan courtesy of the contributing library via the Internet Archive.

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