New Bedford High School

Rita Blanche Fortin

Class of 1933, New Bedford High School, New Bedford, Massachusetts: Rita Blanche Fortin. The yearbook entry prints: came from Normandin Junior High School; headed for Bryant & Stratton; born in 1916. Portrait and entry from the 1933 yearbook, page 40.

Class of 1933

170 in the class of 1933 · 11 more named Fortin

Full name: Rita Blanche Fortin
Born: January 25, 1916
School: New Bedford High School
Graduated: Class of 1933
Course: Commercial
Came from: Normandin Junior High School
Headed for: Bryant & Stratton

Also searched as: Rita Fortin; Rita B. Fortin; Fortin, Rita.

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Same surname 10
Classmates 169
Same schools 66

In context

Rita Blanche Fortin is number 47 of 170 in the alphabetical list of the New Bedford High School class of 1933 on this site. Turning the scan to page 40 shows Rita; the portraits we read from this book run from page 21 to page 79. Across 13 classes of New Bedford High School on this site, from 1927 to 1945, 32 people are named Rita; the class of 1940 has the most, 8. Rita did not arrive alone from Normandin Junior High School: 30 other graduates name it too. Names on this site: 170 for the class of 1933, compared with 122 for 1932 and 103 for 1934.

On the same scan page	Constance Lois Fowler, Joseph A. Gaspar
Same earlier school	Normandin Junior High School: 30 other classmates
Same kind of plan	business or secretarial school: 7 of 37 classmates with a plan (19%)
Same course	Commercial: 53 of 102 classmates with a course (52%)
The book's own title	Memoirs Under the Red and White (editor: Gabrielle Champagne)

What Rita did at school

French Club ’32
Singing ’33
Philomathean Club ’33

What the yearbook said

“Not too serious not too gay She strikes a happy medium.”

The class of 1933

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Others named Fortin

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

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Also came from Normandin Junior High School

Also headed for Bryant & Stratton

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Source

New Bedford High School yearbook, 1933, page 40. 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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