Malden High School

Reta Evelyn Davis “Ree”

Class of 1926-A, Malden High School, Malden, Massachusetts: Reta Evelyn Davis (“Ree”). The yearbook entry prints: headed for Salem Normal School; activities listed: Sigma Phi and President and Secretary Glee Club; lived at 19 Ashland Place. Portrait and entry from the 1926 yearbook, page 18.

Class of 1926-A

86 in the class of 1926 · 238 more named Davis

Full name: Reta Evelyn Davis
Known as: Ree
Born: November 6, 1906
Lived at: 19 Ashland Place, Malden, Massachusetts
School: Malden High School
Graduated: Class of 1926
Course: Commercial
Came from: Belmont School
Headed for: Salem Normal School

Also searched as: Ree Davis; Reta Davis; Reta E. Davis; Davis, Reta.

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Clubs & teams 52
Same surname 165
Classmates 85
Same schools 97

In context

Reta Evelyn Davis is number 20 of 86 in the alphabetical list of the Malden High School class of 1926-A on this site. On the scan, the entry sits on page 18, in the first third of the stretch from page 14 to page 33 where this site found the book's portraits. Belmont School appears as the earlier school of 7 people in the class, Reta among them. In the Malden High School class of 1926-A, 5 entries mention “President and Secretary Glee Club”; Reta's is one of them. Of the 86 entries in the class of 1926-A that print a course, 30 (35%) are college or college-preparatory, where the neighbouring classes have 27% in 1925 and 21% in 1927-B.

On the same scan page	Sadie Evelyn Cohen, Marcella Comeau, Sophia Cooperstein, Mable Esther Decatur
Same club	President and Secretary Glee Club: 4 other classmates
Same earlier school	Belmont School: 6 other classmates
Same kind of plan	teacher training: 7 of 70 classmates with a plan (10%)
Same course	Commercial: 24 of 86 classmates with a course (28%)

What Reta did at school

Sigma Phi
President and Secretary Glee Club 107
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Malden High School yearbook, 1926, page 18. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item maldonianyearboo1926mald).

Published 1926, 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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