New Bedford High School

Owen H. Murphy

New Bedford High School in New Bedford, Massachusetts, listed Owen H. Murphy among 170 graduates in the class of 1933. The entry gives: came from Roosevelt Junior High School; activities listed: Boston University and Debating Society; born in 1915. Portrait and entry from the 1933 yearbook, page 61.

Class of 1933

170 in the class of 1933 · 310 more named Murphy

Full name: Owen H. Murphy
Born: January 16, 1915
School: New Bedford High School
Graduated: Class of 1933
Course: College Classical
Came from: Roosevelt Junior High School

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Clubs & teams 33
Same surname 294
Classmates 169
Same schools 54

In context

This site lists 170 people from the New Bedford High School class of 1933; sorted by surname, Owen comes 114th. Turning the scan to page 61 shows Owen; the portraits we read from this book run from page 21 to page 79. Owen's course, College Classical, is also the course of 27 others in the 102 entries that print one (27% in all). In the New Bedford High School class of 1933, 15 entries mention “Glee Club”; Owen's is one of them. The share taking a college or college-preparatory course was 40% in the class of 1933 (41 of 102), against 10% in 1932 and 34% in 1934.

On the same scan page	Olga Moura, Mildred Anne Murphy
Same club	Glee Club: 14 other classmates
Same earlier school	Roosevelt Junior High School: 19 other classmates
Same course	College Classical: 28 of 102 classmates with a course (27%)
The book's own title	Memoirs Under the Red and White (editor: Gabrielle Champagne)

What Owen did at school

Boston University
Debating Society 33
Glee Club 101
Singing

Fellow members from Owen's own class:

What the yearbook said

“Thinking always.”

The class of 1933

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Others named Murphy

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

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Also came from Roosevelt Junior High School

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Source

New Bedford High School yearbook, 1933, page 61. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item memoirsunderred1933newb_0).

Published 1933. Scan courtesy of the contributing library via the Internet Archive.

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