Somerville High School

Shirley Childs “Shirl”

Shirley Childs (“Shirl”) is one of 563 graduates in the class of 1931 at Somerville High School, Somerville, Massachusetts. The 1931 yearbook entry gives: Normal Course; activities listed: Prose Club and National Honor Society; lived at 28 Highland Avenue.

Class of 1931

563 in the class of 1931 · 12 more named Childs

Full name: Shirley Childs
Known as: Shirl
Lived at: 28 Highland Avenue, Somerville, Massachusetts
School: Somerville High School
Graduated: Class of 1931
Course: Normal Course

Also searched as: Shirl Childs; Childs, Shirley.

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Clubs & teams 283
Neighbours 75
Same surname 8
Classmates 562

In context

563 people from the Somerville High School class of 1931 appear on this site, and Childs puts Shirley 63rd among them. In the scan, Shirley appears on page 35, in the first third of the run of 563 portraits read for this site (pages 27 to 102). In the Somerville High School class of 1931, 9% of the 535 printed courses are Normal Course (48 people), Shirley included. 9 of Shirley's classmates in the Somerville High School class of 1931 also gave Highland Avenue as their street. In the class of 1931 the first names most often shared were John (23), William (17) and Dorothy (16); the class of 1930 had John (18), Mary (16) and Edward (11).

On the same scan page	John Casey, Dante Catanzano, John Censullo, Lawrence Chandler and 3 more
Same street	Highland Avenue: 9 other classmates
Same club	Prose Club: 59 other classmates
Same club	National Honor Society: 49 other classmates
Same course	Normal Course: 48 of 535 classmates with a course (9%)

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Somerville High School yearbook, 1931, page 35. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item radiatorsomervi1931some_0).

Published 1931. Scan courtesy of Digital Commonwealth libraries via the Internet Archive.

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