Malden High School

Persis Clarke “Pussy”

Malden High School in Malden, Massachusetts, listed Persis Clarke (“Pussy”) among 97 graduates in the class of 1928-A. The entry gives: Commercial course; came from Maplewood School; headed for Stenographer. Portrait and entry from the 1928 yearbook, page 16.

Class of 1928-A

97 in the class of 1928 · 56 more named Clarke

Full name: Persis Clarke
Known as: Pussy
School: Malden High School
Graduated: Class of 1928
Course: Commercial
Came from: Maplewood School
Headed for: Stenographer

Also searched as: Pussy Clarke; Clarke, Persis.

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Classmates 96
Same schools 207

In context

Of the 97 entries from the Malden High School class of 1928-A read for this site, Persis's is 16th alphabetically. The entry is on page 16 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 12 to page 48. Among the 74 people in the class who printed a plan, 10 (14%) named going to work, as Persis did (“Stenographer”). Persis is one of 15 listed under Commercial among the 97 classmates whose course is printed (15%). For Malden High School, the site holds 97 people from the class of 1928-A, against 135 for 1929-A.

On the same scan page	Eleanor Jean Brown, Grace Margaret Chivers
Same earlier school	Maplewood School: 12 other classmates
Same kind of plan	work: 10 of 74 classmates with a plan (14%)
Same course	Commercial: 15 of 97 classmates with a course (15%)

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Malden High School yearbook, 1928, page 16. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item maldonianyearboo1928mald).

Published 1928, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Malden Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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