St. Bernard's High School · Fitchburg, Massachusetts

Rita Rose McGowan

Rita Rose McGowan is one of 122 graduates in the class of 1938 at St. Bernard's High School, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The 1938 yearbook entry gives: a motto.

Class of 1938

122 in the class of 1938 · 22 more named McGowan

Full name: Rita Rose McGowan
School: St. Bernard's High School
Graduated: Class of 1938
Headed for: field of nursing

Also searched as: Rita McGowan; Rita R. McGowan; McGowan, Rita.

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Same surname 19
Classmates 121

In context

Of the 122 names from the St. Bernard's High School class of 1938 that have pages here, Rita is 76th in surname order. In the scan, Rita appears on page 33, in the last third of the run of 122 portraits read for this site (pages 19 to 39). Among first names in the St. Bernard's High School class of 1938, Rita comes 2nd in frequency (7 people). Rita's “field of nursing” falls in the same group as 6 of the 14 plans printed for the class (43%): nursing. Counting only people with pages here, the class of 1938 has 122 entries, while the neighbouring classes have 139 for 1937 and 150 for 1939.

On the same scan page	Pauline Anne Leger, Yvonne Theresa Marcotte, Timothy Joseph O'Dea, Raymond Nelson Paige and 1 more
Same kind of plan	nursing: 6 of 14 classmates with a plan (43%)
Same first name	Rita: 6 other people in the class
The book's own title	Bernardian (editor: Joseph Pucko)

What the yearbook said

To women silence gives their proper grace.

The class of 1938

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Others named McGowan

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Also headed for field of nursing

Rita Starr StanleySt. Bernard's 1935

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Source

St. Bernard's High School yearbook, 1938, page 33. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item bernardian1938stbe).

Published 1938. Scan courtesy of the contributing library via the Internet Archive.

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