Malden High School

Shirley Balin “Shorty”

Shirley Balin (“Shorty”) appears in the 1927 yearbook of Malden High School in Malden, MA. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates, family and what the book says.

Class of 1927-B

168 in the class of 1927 · 1 more named Balin

Full name: Shirley Balin
Known as: Shorty
School: Malden High School
Graduated: Class of 1927
Course: Commercial
Came from: C. A. Daniels School

Also searched as: Shorty Balin; Balin, Shirley.

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Classmates 167
Same schools 96

In context

168 people from the Malden High School class of 1927-B appear on this site, and Balin puts Shirley 7th among them. On the scan, the entry sits on page 13, right at the start of the stretch from page 12 to page 48 where this site found the book's portraits. Commercial was the course of 51 out of 168 classmates who printed one (30%), including Shirley. Dorothy (9) and Ruth (6) were the first names most often repeated in the class of 1927-B, and George (5) and John (5) in the class of 1928-B.

On the same scan page	Alvin Anteen, Phyllis Aughtie, Edith Baldi, Vivian Barstow
Same course	Commercial: 51 of 168 classmates with a course (30%)

What the yearbook said

Small, smiling and studious.

The class of 1927

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Also came from C. A. Daniels School

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Source

Malden High School yearbook, 1927, page 13. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item maldonianyearbo1927mald_0).

Published 1927, 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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