New Bedford High School

Mary Perry Silva

Mary Perry Silva is one of 150 graduates in the class of 1936 at New Bedford High School, New Bedford, Massachusetts. The 1936 yearbook entry gives: came from Normandin Junior High School; activities listed: Leaders Club and Girls’ Basketball League; born in 1918.

Class of 1936

150 in the class of 1936 · 40 more named Silva

Full name: Mary Perry Silva
Born: August 13, 1918
School: New Bedford High School
Graduated: Class of 1936
Course: Commercial
Came from: Normandin Junior High School

Also searched as: Polly Silva; Mary Silva; Mary P. Silva; Molly Silva.

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Same surname 39
Classmates 149
Same schools 26

In context

This site lists 150 people from the New Bedford High School class of 1936; sorted by surname, Mary comes 128th. Find Mary on page 65 of the scan; the people on this site from the New Bedford High School class of 1936 are spread over pages 19 to 72. Mary's course, Commercial, is also the course of 32 others in the 90 entries that print one (37% in all). From 1924 to 1945, 127 New Bedford High School graduates on this site share the first name Mary, spread over 25 classes and peaking at 10 in 1941. Names on this site: 150 for the class of 1936, compared with 120 for 1935.

On the same scan page	George Grant Sharp, Frank Simas, Jr.
Same earlier school	Normandin Junior High School: 19 other classmates
Same course	Commercial: 33 of 90 classmates with a course (37%)
Same first name	Mary: 5 other people in the class
The book's own title	Memoirs Under the Red and White

What Mary did at school

Leaders Club
Girls’ Basketball League
Gym 732, 33, 34
Drawing

What the yearbook said

“A happy disposition makes a cheerful countenance.”

The class of 1936

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Others named Silva

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

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Also came from Normandin Junior High School

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Source

New Bedford High School yearbook, 1936, page 65. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item memoirsunderredw1936newb).

Published 1936. Scan courtesy of the contributing library via the Internet Archive.

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